getting broadband prioritised for your area

[petemurphy]

Hi,

anyone had any luck getting their area prioritised ( or getting any info! ) for broadband rollout?

still on 2mb here and its shocking.

this just isnt good enough in this day and age:


http://www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org.uk/quest...

The aim of the Better Broadband for Oxfordshire is to achieve the best long-term broadband coverage for the county.
As with all programmes of this size, it’s not possible to plan every area at the same time, so some areas will be enabled before others. As we plan the rollout we’re working closely with our partners and participating organisations to take into account all the factors that may have an impact on the speed of delivery, for example local demographics and geography, planning requirements, existing engineering infrastructure and the availability of suitable technologies to provide a service.

head against a wall or is there any way of getting it quicker?

thanks

[petemurphy]

andy-xr said:

Best option - get a few neighbours together, you'll need about 10 houses, and ideally someone who works at a telco wholesaler, and buy a 10meg or 100meg leased line. You'll get next to no contention and that will be better than having 40 meg Infinity that everyone else is on. It'd cost about £3,000 pa, so £250/month, which comes to £25 per household.

B4RN (http://b4rn.org.uk/) near us started off as something similar, they had volunteers out helping them dig the fields up to put the cable in

interesting thanks will look into it

[petemurphy]

loafer123 said:

Or just get satellite broadband instead...

http://www.satelliteinternet.co.uk/

blimey i didnt realise it was so cheap

[petemurphy]

Accelebrate said:

Assuming you're in Oxfordshire, any plans for Gigaclear to come to your village?

http://www.gigaclear.com

doesnt look like we qualify

The community must comprise more than 400 properties

[petemurphy]

Mark Benson said:

We've just got 80Mb broadband in a rural North Yorkshire village.

NY Council were behind it, along with BT and a lot of rural parish councils, they see it as a way to bring people (like me) who can work from home a lot of the time to the county from the south east. http://www.superfastnorthyorkshire.com/home

My company allows homeworking for anyone who does not need to be tied to one of the main offices (previously I worked in Reading, but my boss is in the US and my teams are spread out around Europe and the Middle East) and the move up here was a no-brainer once the county council had announced their intentions. Many people are in the same position as me and the council hopes that an influx of homeworkers will help revitalise small villages, where in the past people would work for a local landowner or business and shop and socialise within the village.
Almost everyone who works commutes out of their villages to the towns now, making shops and pubs unviable, but an increase of homeworkers (there are 4 in my village already) might mean that some of the local services stay put as use increases.

It's taken a couple of years, but we now have some really remote places getting 40-80Mb connections - an example of a very forward thinking council...

I presume that is what we'll get one day as its the same website design:

http://www.betterbroadbandoxfordshire.org.uk/home

its just the uncertainty - Bt say we should get it by 2015 depending on surveys and the prevailing wind..

[petemurphy]

Accelebrate said:

Assuming you're in Oxfordshire, any plans for Gigaclear to come to your village?

http://www.gigaclear.com

if they can install it / make it pay why cant bt?