Thread: The future for rural UK?

Quote: The increase is not going to be night and day for someone starting on 1.4mbit with ADSL. The move to ADSL2+ (which is what will happen) will likely give you around 3-4mbit sadly. To be honest, any increase in speed would be welcome. Going from 1.4 to 3-4 mbs would mean we can actually use on demand services. The BT vision box we have has not been used since we got it free last year...

Quote: Originally Posted by oathy aye thats what ive been in touch with BT over. the trouble is trying to find out the right person to sort it out. It really is miserable. As you are not with BT, there is no one there that can help you. You need to call your ISP. They are responsible for your ADSL service.

Quote: Originally Posted by Aspartame I'd love 1.4, and I'm in town, I get about 1 Meg now. They used to say I should get about 3, then the engineers investigated it, and my promised speed is now only 500k , which of course means that everything is ok dear lord...

Quote: Originally Posted by oathy aye thats what ive been in touch with BT over. the trouble is trying to find out the right person to sort it out. It really is miserable. BH2 is right, you need to keep on at your ISP about how the b/band drops of every night at around the same time, mention that you have read about REIN on the t'internet, and believe this may be the issue. they can the task the CP to monitor the connection to log the...

Quote: Originally Posted by PhilT1808 Hi - I live in a fairly rural village location about 2 miles from the local telephone exchange. We currently receive broadband from BT at around 1.4 Mbs. What do you think the future will be for rural locations? Are we ever likely to get 'superfast' broadband or fibre optic? Or is this just not cost effective? I live 2 miles from a small village Exchange and get about 6.8 MB maybe your line...

Hi PhilT1808, you can find out info on your exchange at www.samknows.com Regards Rodney

Quote: Originally Posted by PhilT1808 A 50p per month tax on top of the tax we already pay in VAT for having a landline? I'm sure that willl be a popular Labour vote winner... Yes, especially with those that don't own a computer and have no intention of getting one.

The proposed 50p per month tax on landlines is supposedly to be used to subsidise the provision of superfast broadband in rural areas.

The division between urban and rural areas when it comes to broadband is very sudden. As you go further out of a town, it becomes more and more rural (depending on what surrounds the town, of course!). As such, you get fewer shops and other services (such as buses) the further out you go. With broadband though, it's a sudden drop. The exchange in my local town (and it's a large town; a county town in fact) has loads of LLU-enabled...

It is likely those of us in rural or semi-rural areas will always lag behind the towns and cities. It's definitely down to costs here in the UK because our government still expects the broadband companies to pick up most of the costs. In other countries governments pay for the upgrades in infrastructure (like S Korea) but here that isn't the case. The UK government are looking into it but it is still likely they wont cover the full...