Hi Syd! Thanks for the info in your mails.
On 31-Dec-03 Syd Hancock wrote:
Adding to my own post:
I think you'll find that BT intends to use wireless only for the few areas where they have not now issued triggers figures for ADSL
also... subscribers in areas served by BB-enabled exchanges who cannot get adsl for various technical reasons such as being too far from the exchange, wrong type of cable etc.
Well, I qualify on some grounds here but not others.
My local "exchange" (actually a brick hut next to a pumping station) is Brandon Creek ( 01353 676 *** ) which, as it happens, is just inside Norfolk by a few yards.
I'm certainly too far, and on the wrong cable (4.9km of copper cable, much of which is suspended in the air); but the "exchange" itself has no ADSL kit in it, according to BT, and in any case it only serves a few dozen addresses. I've never found it on the trigger lists, but maybe my search was inefficient!
Distributed over Fenland, E Cambs, W Norfolk (just for my area) are a lot of extended areas where the density of addresses is very low. It is hardly going to be economic for BT to set up cable BB for these, which may be why they don't show up in trigger lists -- they just know before they start that there ain't the custom. For instance, though I haven't counted exactly, I doubt Brandon Creek serves as many as 50 addresses, some of which could be 3-4 miles (as the crow flies, never mind the cable) from the exchange. And, quite probably, not all of these would be bursting to get broadband.
Areas like these would be ideal for a wireless link, since a central hub could pick up such scattered homesteads all at once, without the infrastructure needed to hard-wire them to an exchange.
Further informed thoughts would be gratefully received!
Best wishes, Ted.
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