On Friday 26 March 2004 15:38, Ted Harding wrote:
On 26-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
On Thursday 25 March 2004 21:59, Ted Harding wrote:
On 25-Mar-04 IanBell wrote:
Just heard that our small village on the North Norfolk Coast will be broadband enabled at the end of July this year. Yippee!
Which small village is it? Ted.
Northrepps, connected to the Overstrand exchange.
Thanks! I guess you benefit by being counted along with the population of Overstrand and from Overstrand's proximity to a few other places.
Every little helps but AFAIK only Overstrand, Northrepps and Sidestrand are served by the Overstrand exchange.
I was interested, as a point of comparison with my own remote location: Little Ouse (Brandon Bank on some maps), about 3 miles ENE of Littleport. The exchange is a brick hut at Brandon Creek, and I doubt it serves as many as 100 lines. Last time I looked, the register of ADSL interest for Brandon Creek exchange had climbed, breathlessly, to 9 ...
Overstrand is much the same, a brick building about the size of a single garage. What is your threshold? Ours was 200.
I feel wireless ought to be rolled out for the many subscribers scattered over the really sparse areas of the Fens, served by really tiny exchanges. The coverage of a single wireless point should be able to take in hundreds of these in one go. Mobile phones work OK!
There are offerings of this type. There is an agency called something like East Anglian Broadband, that exists to make funds available for this sort of thing. A google search should find it.
Ian