RE: [OT] BT Broadband campaign website.

["Dean Smith" <ukha@xxxxxxx>]

BT are currently trialling "extended reach" internally and yes
the aim is to
go to 6km.

Expect a launch to the public in a few months

Dean.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Crowther [mailto:scrowther@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 10 April 2003 09:56
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] BT Broadband campaign website.


Not sure if this is relevant, but I heard that BT have extended the range
that Broadband will reach from an exchange, I believe its 6km now, whereas
it was 5 or 5.5 Maybe it'll reach you now?



Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hetherington [mailto:mark.egroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 09 April 2003 23:17
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] BT Broadband campaign website.

Shmern wrote:
> BT now provide campaign material and resources for people
> wanting to try to push for their exchanges to be enabled.

ROFLMAO before I burst into tears!

BT sent me a bunch of posters to advertise to get my exchange enabled a
few months ago. Great I thought, so checked the site and it still did
not have a trigger level. Even 3 months later there is no trigger level.
Am I supposed to advertise to get a trigger level so they can set an
unreachable one despite the fact that my exchange has more registrations
listed than a bunch of exchanges with trigger levels!?

The money they wasted on sending out that could have gone towards
enabling the exchange since any campaign using it is obviously pointless
at this stage.

I wish they had used the early Home Highway system for ADSL rollout.
Took them 2 weeks to enable my HH line but then it worked for anyone
else in the area that wanted it. Since the change for me involved quite
major work at the exchange, I do not see how ADSL would have been more
costly to apply the same technique to. Obviously buying out some foreign
telecommunications company in say Hong Kong is more profitable than
providing local services :(

I seem to be on the only exchange in the area not enabled but within the
distance of all of them to be enabled if my line was connected to them.
One at least is actually nearer than my own exchange!

Mark .



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