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BT announces more high speed broadband exchanges
DOMINANT UK TELCO British Telecom (BT) has added another 156 exchanges to its list of rural areas that are set for installation of high speed Internet connections.
BT is rolling out so-called 'superfast' broadband in rural Blighty like there's no tomorrow. The Internet bandwidth provider has promised to add 156 more exchanges that will offer up to 40Mbps for about 1.5 million BT consumers and businesses.
BT wants to install at least 50 of the exchanges over this Summer and most of the rest by the end of the year. Those that it doesn't enable this year it will tackle next year, it explained.
Some of the exchanges were in the winning areas from BT's Race to Infinity competition, which it has been banging on about for a while.
We can't list all the 156 places since this is not an almanac of obscure British towns, but they include the jewel in Dundee's crown, Broughty Ferry, and some places in Wales.
We're not sure how BT managed to include an exchange at Gerrard Street in Soho or Kensington Garden in London as part of its rural broadband plans. Just because the latter includes a garden does not make it rural.
BT also rolled out services to Cornwall last week and announced plans to deliver high speed copper broadband in areas it can't yet reach with fibre optic cables.
The Cornish connection is part of a £132 million scheme to hook up rural areas and BT has also pledged £2.5 billion to get two-thirds of UK customers hooked up to high speed broadband by 2015. µ
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People in the US will soon have an alternate technology for rural broadband: TV white space, unused TV channels in the VHF/UHF range. These signals penetrate obstacles like foliage and walls, and spread farther than Wi-Fi. I believe Ofcom is investigating this spectrum for use in the UK.
Bt used to be part of the post office, for most of their existence. Strangely the PO used to bend my packets out of shape,an delaying them, so its nice to see that tradition carrying on.
Is there any news on them upgrading their backbone infrastructure to support all these high speed customers, or can we expect to see even more severe packet shaping, throttling and monthly caps you could blow in a couple of hours in future?
Could BT not finish the places they've started before they move onto the next place.
I live in the city centre of Durham and the exchange was upgraded for Infinity - however most of the cabinets in the city centre weren't upgraded. Which just seems really daft if you ask me.
BT may say that many exchanges have been upgraded but they never publish statistics about how many actual cabinets have been upgraded. I wonder why???
C.