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What Ainsdale Wants for Xmas ... ADSL
Wed 25th Dec 2002, 06:48 AM
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by: steve
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For whatever reason British Telecom updated every exchange in Southport and Formby except for Ainsdale to take the new high speed internet services.
We don't know why Ainsdale was left out but BT now insist on registration demand level before taking any further action.
Ainsdale needs 400 BT paying people in Ainsdale to register (you need the first 10 characters of your BT bill to register).
Today, December 25th, there are 219 registrations.
We have launched a special page on this site to tell you more about this and will continue to update the registration levels.
Ainsdale ADSL Campaign
All numbers beginning with 57 denote the Ainsdale exchange.
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| steve
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Wed 25th Dec 2002,
08:45 AM |
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Info just found on www.btplc.com website which should mean a fast process once the 400 barrier is hit.....
BT Wholesale today announced plans to streamline the broadband demand registration scheme, speeding up the time taken to upgrade an exchange where demand for ADSL has been proven by up to six weeks.
The registration scheme, introduced in July, is set to change from a three stage process to a two stage process, benefiting both service providers and people wanting broadband services.
With immediate effect BT Wholesale will start the build process to upgrade any exchange reaching the trigger - removing the 42 day confirmation process. From January 15 a new order process will be in place by which service providers will be able to take orders from people wanting broadband after an exchange demand trigger is hit.
With the suspension of the confirmation stage from today, work will begin to upgrade 18 exchanges currently in the confirmation stage or just passed their triggers. The dates when these exchanges are due to go live will be updated on the broadband checker on bt.com/broadband shortly.
Bruce Stanford, director of wholesale products at BT, said: "We've seen more than 200,000 people register their interest in getting broadband since the registration scheme was launched and 10 exchanges are now live for broadband as a result. Fifteen more are being upgraded and today's announcement means a further 18 exchanges will immediately be moved into our build programme."
For exchanges where trigger levels are met between now and January 15, service providers will collate the customer details ready to take orders once the new order system is in place.
After January 15 the streamlined process will be fully in place: When a trigger level is hit work will begin to upgrade the exchange and service providers will be able to take orders from their customers.
To detect and prevent frivolous or false registrations improved integrity measures are being taken during the registration phase including sophisticated data analysis. This will ensure a true picture of demand levels is established. BT Wholesale will also continue to work with service providers to check validity of registrations and the additional safeguards BT Wholesale has put in place will also result in false registrations being removed from the system before an exchange is moved into the build stage.
Exchanges already upgraded as a result of registration scheme
Todmorden, West Yorkshire Twyford, Berkshire
Bishops Waltham, Hants Kesgrave, Suffolk
Pembury, Kent Leek, Staffs
Ponteland, Northumberland Irby, Merseyside
Paddock Wood; Kent Penn, Buckinghamshire
Exchanges now in build phase
Drayton, Norfolk *Heath Hayes, Staffordshire
Harrowden, Northamptonshire *Berkswell, West Midlands
Buckley, Clwyd *Borough Green, Kents
Shaw, Greater Manchester *Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute
Tottington, Greater Manchester *Olney, Bucks
Danbury, Essex *Wivenhoe, Essex
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire *Kilsyth, North Lanarkshire
Wymondham, Norfolk *Dinnington, South Yorkshire
Ivybridge, Devon *Frodsham, Cheshire
Merthyr Tydfil *Steyning, West Sussex
Inverness Culloden *Wideopen, Tyne & Wear
Matlock, Derbyshire *Stanley, Co Durham
Bursledon, Hampshire *Goring-on-Thames
Worle, Avon *Glasgow Newton Mearns
Alton, Hampshire *Codsall, Staffs
*Fernhill Heath, Hereford & Worcester
*Chepstow, Gwent
*Worthing Swandean, West Sussex
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| Mr H
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Mon 13th Jan 2003,
10:57 PM |
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Steve,
do you fancy a little wager on whether or not the reply you get is basically identical to the one I got (which unfortunately I deleted, but can remember most of it).
Another thing that annoys me is that if BT had not spent 9 trillion quid on those stupid 3G licenses that they only bought coz they thought they ought to have them, then they would not be in so much debt and would have money to spend in advance to upgrade all exchanges. Surely as our only real major telecoms company (obviously there are others, but without BT the whole countries communications would fall down), the government should keep their spending on useless and overpriced peripherals. What am I saying, the government got the money for the 3G licenses, so obviously they dont care what other chaos it causes.
And for another thing, and Im sorry if i'm droning on. Im sick of designing webpages and keeping the filesize down to 100k maximum with images included. And I'm fed up of american websites assuming in their usual arrogance (no offence to Americans on the site, although I'm sure some will be taken anyway) that the whole world has a one megabit connection minimum.
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| Nick H
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Thu 13th Feb 2003,
08:56 PM |
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Please see response from BT on my question:
Located in the Ainsdale (Southport) area and having registered many months ago I'm extremely frustrated that no reduction was applied to this exchange and the figure of 400 still remains. Realistically what alternative options do really exist for people like myself who wish to use Broadband now?
"BT aim to get broadband to all areas of the UK, but without government funding, we have to do this in a financially responsible way, meaning we can only invest where we can expect a return on our investments.
There are a number of substantial costs involved in upgrading an exchange for broadband ADSL--these include the cost of the broadband exchange equipment, space within the exchange, state of existing equipment and building, ventilation and air-conditioning as well as the cost of "backhaul" (connecting the exchange to the core network that provides ADSL broadband
service) which is potentially the most expensive factor. We built in a 50 per cent risk when we set the trigger levels, so in other words, we budgeted for only 50 per cent of the costs to be covered. This means that when we set a trigger level of, for example, 550, we actually need 1100 customers to return our initial investments.
The reductions in cost which have enabled BT to reduce trigger levels are predominantly related to the engineering of the backhaul. Lower costs for some exchange equipment has made a smaller contribution.
For some exchanges where alternative backhaul solutions have not been possible the triggers have stayed the same because the reduction in equipment costs alone would not be enough to reduce the trigger or make it viable to set an achievable trigger.
Your exchange Ainsdale is on 280 of 400 required pre-registrations and is expected to reach its trigger level in Spring 2003, provided demand keeps rising the way it does at the moment. After this it will take about 2-3 months to upgrade the exchange.
The only non-ADSL broadband product that BT currently have in the market, is the satellite product. It is aimed at businesses and relatively costly compared to ADSL, but available to home users who wish to order it."
So its all a matter of keeping those registrations coming !!!
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