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Story: BT's fibre-to-the-cabinet pilot goes live

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Whitchurch

I just happened to be in Whitchurch today visiting a client whom we provide IT Services and are already a BT broadband ADSL customer when BT Local Business rolled up asking if they wanted to be part of the trial. Naturally i advised them to take part in the trial as you get 6 months free broadband upto 40MB download and 2MB upload. The BT Local Business representative said that "they would be able to revert back after the trial for free", "get a new faster 2wire modem for the duration", "you will get a discount when the trial ends if you decide to keep it", " that they expect the price would be "not much more than they paying now" for their current upto 8mb service, they had signed up about "about 160 of 200 available trial places" in Whitchurch and they are using "Cisco equipment" to translate from fibre to the mini adsl exchange inside the street cab. When i was leaving i noticed that a contractor was installing the nice new green street cab at the side of the road next to an older one 25 metres from the premesis. lucky customer!

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