Bloody Telephone Companies

Adam_P · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Karma :

Does anyone else out there have the same problem as me, in that they can't get broadband internet access as the phone company, ie: BT, doesn't currently have plans to upgrade their exchange?

It would be a godsend for me for work, but apparantly, I can't have it. Thumbs Down

So much for the government plan to have the whole country and all businesses on broadband as soon as possible.

<-------- Going off to sulk now! Evil or Very Mad

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Lee_367 · Brolly Dolly Joined: 22 May 2004 Karma :

i believe we in Britain have a slower broadband growth rate than some third-world countries.
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MarJay · But it's British! Joined: 15 Sep 2003 Karma :

Have you phoned NTL? Smile

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bikegirl · Nitrous Nuisance Joined: 29 May 2004 Karma :

If you've got the dosh you can go for BT Satellite - £60/mth but about £2K to install.
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BiKeBiKeBiKe · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 12 May 2004 Karma :

Ntl Should be able to cable ur area if u find enough peeps tht want it

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Adam_P · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Karma :

I am 12 miles outside the city centre and we don't have any company that will supply it. Annoying thing is that my cousin who its North ofthe city has it, my girlfriend who lives a few miles away from me, has the ability to have it, but we don't.

Diamond Cable - who became NTL didn't bother putting the fibre optics in as far as us, stopped short by about 6 miles, as they didn't think they'd get the take up. That was 6 years ago! Rolling Eyes

Just that all the adverts on TV advertising that people should be on broadband are starting to piss me off! Especially as I've just started the business, I have to send high res images and copy all over the place and on a normal dial up it takes forever.

After what my cousin told me the other day about the speeds he's running and the ease of installation, I'm more than a little bit fed up. And you should see my phone bill a month! Silence

Edited because Robby told me off! Laughing

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BiKeBiKeBiKe · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 12 May 2004 Karma :

It was like tht at my m8s house but they got 50 peeps to sign sumfink sayin thy wanted and thn thygot the cables installed

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Robby · Dirty Old Man Joined: 16 May 2002 Karma :

Learn to spell. Everyone else does it, and even if you are 12 you should know a bit of spelling and grammar.

Mrs_Hippy · The Pink Lady Joined: 07 Jul 2002 Karma :

It took several years from the time we decided we wanted broadband and the time our exchange was initialized. everyone round here was persuading everyone else to go on to the BT site and register as someone who wanted. Your excange was initalised once enough people had shown intrest.

The Hippy was even talking about moving to a broadband area - bless him - he has his priorities.
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BiKeBiKeBiKe · Borekit Bruiser Joined: 12 May 2004 Karma :

i'm not 12

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Adam_P · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Karma :

You still can't put capital letters in the right places though. I think that's what Robby was getting at.
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jay12329 · Dr. Evil Joined: 02 May 2003 Karma :

Where in lincoln are you, have you looked at www.skysurf.co.uk wireless bb in lincolnshire.
Can get it in our village still trying to convince dad he wants to get it so i can use my x-box online, sorry do my uni work faster! Very Happy

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Stacky McCrash · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Karma :

Very clearly none of you have the first clue how much money and work goes into enabling Broadband into a new exchange area. Do you think it's something they just plug in? it's not it requires massive upgrades to exchanges and cable networks.

Remember BT etc are business' not charitys, if it wont make money it wont happen quickly.

just my opinion of course.

Mrs Kickstart · Brolly Dolly Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Karma :

hi,

www.ehotspot.co.uk will get a wireless/ sat network up if you can 15 people in a 3 mile radius. i'm recruiting for our village as our exchange is enabled but we are to far away and cable is a no hoper Sad

Charlotte

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Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

God knows when we will get it. We are either too far from the exchange (which was enabled years ago) or the phone lines are too bad. BT won't say, but our betting is on rubbish lines as we cannot even get ISDN.

Currently the only option we have is satellite BB at around £1200 installation and £80 a month for both directions.

All the best

Keith
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Stacky McCrash · Two Stroke Sniffer Joined: 10 Oct 2003 Karma :

BT guarentee voice clarity not data connection speeds. If you dont think your line is good enough report it as a fault.

If you were running a buisness would you pay out X hundred thousands on converting exchanges to broad band for a whole city centre of buisnesses to use or a tiny exchange in the sticks some place where a couple hundred users might be interested?

BT put enough money back into it's network (actually they just spent a huge amount on it)
You can always pay for a new cable to be installed your self. It's only 15 quid a meter.

Sorry to sound defensive but i work for BT and i'm sick of all the whinging that goes on about broad band.

Kickstart · The Oracle Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Hi

Voice level is fine. However we are getting really pi$$ed off with adverts for Broadband which we cannot have. Not even ISDN (which the BT call centre said "Everyone can have that......oh").

The exchange we are on in BB enabled. We are between 5km and 6km from it by road, so it should be under that for the cables (as they don't have to go round the one way system), but BT will not tell you why you cannot have it. They will not give you any useful info at all. The reason we suspect the line is crap is the amount of trouble they had getting a 2nd line to work with any kind of useful quality.

To make matters worse they have enabled / are about to enable a rural exchange covering a couple of small villages which is actually closer to us the the main exchange we are on.

They did put up that out house could possibly have BB (not any of the neighbours though) so we ordered it. They never bothered to tell us that we could not have it, or that they had not bothered to send out the filters, etc (but they still tried to charge us for them, and still put the charges on our phone bill).

Personally don't bother defending BT. If they were other than a profiteering manopoly with crap standards of service then they might deserve your efforts defending them.

All the best

Keith
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Jack2004 · Nova Slayer Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Karma :

I had that, I couldn't get it because i had something know as a green line, but if i went for the more expensive broadband i could get it, so i just went with getting the more expensive one.

Adam_P · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Karma :

zaknafien · Joined: 25 Mar 2002 Karma :

I'm with Adam, BT are useless money grabbers.

I'm glad I never have to use their sub standard service ever again.
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