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Story: Britain gets a new broadband divide

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 20 April 2005, 10:39 AM)

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The Broadband divide now has many layers. BT has not given any indication if or when they may upgrade the remaining ~600 local exchanges to ADSL.

I am sadly in connected to one of these exchanges - it carries 130 lines and is only 2.3km from a main BT fibre route. Even worse that fibre joints at the bottom of my garden!

It only managed 32 registrations when the triggers were running, this was not helped by the switch not supporting ISDN. Everybody with an ISDN line is parented off another exchange with a different STD, so these lines were not counted against the local registrations. Possibly not counted against the viable / unviable decision either.

I am sure exchanges like this could be easily provisioned with a Mini DSLAM and a single 2Mb backhaul if BT were really committed. Hey, they may well get a return out of it!

Bulldog or Easynet are very wellcome to unbundle my local exchange. Perhaps we will be waiting some time.

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