Tuesday, August 26, 2008

24Mb broadband is coming

At least according to the BT salesman who spoke to me today, and at least to the Stornoway exchange, and it is due here before the end of August.

Wow!

I don't claim to understand the technicalities of how or why, but can anyone confirm that Stornoway will actually be activated to ADSL2+ within the next few weeks?
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:09 pm

    Hope you are right - and especially that it also applies to other Western Isles exchanges, but the Sam Knows website, which is usually well-informed, still shows Stornoway as 3rd quarter of 2011 for 21CN.

    http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NSSWY

    Suggest you contact Sam - he is very helpful and has good contacts so he will probably be able to find out for sure one way or the other.

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  2. Ian5:51 pm

    Doesn't seem right...The switchedonuk.org website doesn't seem to be giving out any dates at all at the moment but last time I checked for Stornoway it was reporting 2011.

    Does anyone know if Stornoway is still a band 2 exchange? The 21CN rollout only included 10 of them in the first 600 or so...

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  3. Anonymous8:18 pm

    Who was the BT salesman - local or telesales?

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  4. Anonymous5:51 am

    BT service for town sounds good. However us in the rural areas still get treated like second rate citizens by Connected Communities

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  5. Angus9:20 am

    According to BT sales, q3 for 2011 is for domestic customers on fibre-optic cables.

    All business customers apparently get this option in August.

    Does that seem right?

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  6. Ian4:21 pm

    Doesn't seem right if the exchange isn't enabled. If there's a backhaul to an enabled exchange somewhere else needed it would be expensive for a single business. Could they have meant wholesale customers?

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  7. Anonymous5:28 pm

    No.

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  8. Anonymous2:04 pm

    i miss-read switched on uk as switch-e-dunk... is this signifigant?

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  9. Anonymous3:16 pm

    I think the 21CN upgrade needs the fibre cable across the minch before it will work, the radio link at holm isnt up to it. The council were looking into the fibre cable for con the communities but since BT need it for 21CN the council are holding off hoping BT will fund it & they can piggy back onto the system. Its not like the council to try saving money!

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