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I am in East Northants and am interested in this option. I work from home in Brigstock and we suffer from 2-3Mb/s. How much does it cost to get the scheme up and running, and I'd be interested to know what are you monthly charges?
Not sure about the setup charges. Think they work on trying to sign up a certain number of accounts in the community/area to make the infrastructure worthwhile - their website might have more info.
Monthly charges, I think ours will be about 65 quid a month for 200Mbps and phone, which I reckon is decent value.
Wait up everyone! It's all going to be fine, our esteemed leader says so...
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34753331 ]Fast broadband for all by 2020 pledges Cameron[/url]
'Fast', in this case apparently represents 10Mbps. Sorry OP, you may have to wait a little longer. Still, at least it's been pledged, which means of course jackshit.
http://www.revk.uk/2015/11/10mbs-uso.html is an interesting analysis on that pledge (which seems oddly familiar, has it been a decade now of PMs pledging to solve the rural broadband problem?)
Frustratingly for us, our cabinet is fibre enabled but it's miles away so we're stuck on regular broadband.
Yup. Kings Cliffe.
No way! same here, there are 3 or 4 of us on here from cliffe, we ought to meet up for a ride!
Clobber - Member
Yup. Kings Cliffe.
No way! same here, there are 3 or 4 of us on here from cliffe, we ought to meet up for a ride!
Small world! I'm guessing we've probably passed each other a few times in Fineshade or Wakerley (if I'm on the neon orange Alpine I'm kind of hard to miss). Might even be one of the locals I 'stalk' on Strava to see if I've missed any off-piste stuff in the woods.
I hope this doesnt sound flippant - have you checked 4G coverage in the area? Some of the 4g compaies eiter listened to rural communities, (or spotted them as a profit potential) and have rolled out coverage to some areas. You can get a 4G routers aren't too expensive, I appreciate the contact might be, but you can ditch the phoneline altogetherr if it works (which is the only other way of getting BT's attention)
Are there any rural broadband action groups in the area - they might have info on whats available, and possibly either funding, or at least deals with alternative providers.
other than that - pigeons and SD cards.
[i]You don't see many other companies offering to provide new infrastructure, especially when the returns make dubious financial sense. Even with the government cash up for grabs they are not exactly hammering on the door for it.[/i]
Yep.
The region I live in has 109,000 people scattered across 4,700 square km. Or as a provider you could look the next-door area, which has 492,000 people in 264 square km...
Orange Alpine! That's a big bike for round 'ere...
There are a couple of fast lads on Strava but not me... too slow...!
Email is in my profile if you fancy a ride out
Well, best laid plans and all that...
Despite being in the same little village as Clobber, I won't now be getting Gigaclear 200Mbps+ fibre to the premises.
Looks like I'll have to make do with BT/Openreach 50Mbps fibre to the cabinet.
So, what are the best deals/best provider to go with that use BT infrastructure? I need/want truly unlimited data each month.