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On 07/10/10 19:28, Gordon Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Brad Rogers wrote:On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 17:33:18 +0100 (BST) Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Gordon,I'd just be hppy with WBC/21CN in my exchange - which is not likely to ever happen - and I'd suspect not for most of rural Devon too.Maybe not. OTOH, I recall that my local exchange was originally projected to be BB enabled about 18 months *after* it actually happened, due to lack of. It got brought forward as a result of reduced costs, even though at the time, there were insufficient customers waiting for it.Ah, well, that was just BT deciding to squash any possibility of any sort of competition - they went ahead and enabled our exchange too (Buckfastleigh) which was way below the trigger point - positively killing off any change of the commercial broadband project I was running here at the time. Actually, they told us that they were going to enable the exchange the week after out commercial project started, but that's another story... (Questions were asked and it happened 18 months later) My suspicions are that they've more or less set in-stone the exchanges for WBC upgrade and are now concentrating on FTTC. Devon currently has just 4 exchanges with WBC/12CN connectivity - Barnstaple, Exeter, Exmouth and Newton Abbot. (Out of 160 exchanges in total)
I dunno, looks like Paignton and Torquay do according to Samknows, although it comes under it's own county of Torbay :-P
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WWPAIG http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/WWTORQOf course I could be getting my wires crossed. It is 21CN WBC status on the Samknows site isn't it?
(My local exchange isn't covered and St Marychurch is listed as the end of March next year).
It doesn't get much more rural than where I am and no, no LLU here.The LLU operators really won't move in unless they think it's profitable.
I guess if the local rural communities as a whole got together and approached say Rutland Telecom, Vitesse or Fibrecity (I believe that's what they're called) then maybe they might have more of a chance, although going on what you say, I bet BT would suddenly find it commercially viable.
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