Talk Talk have installed their own equipment in the Oundle telephone exchange, bringing the residents of Oundle cheaper and faster services.
Their ADSL2+ service predicts for a house near the Co-Op: Your estimated speed range is between 5.4 and 12.7meg
Wansford exchange appears as "scheduled" on their exchange checking tool, so perhaps they have changed their mind ?
Friday 29 July 2011
Monday 25 July 2011
Northamptonshire want help
Northamptonshire County Council are collecting expressions of support for their bid to BDUK for superfast broadband funds, please fill in the form at surveymonkey.
NCC also have a Superfast Northamptonshire blog
Meanwhile, up the road in Stamford in Lincolnshire there's a hive of construction activity as BT install streetside cabinets to provide "up to 40 Mbits/s" broadband over the phone line. These cabinets contain electronics that supply a VDSL signal over the copper phone line, the cabinets themselves are fed with fibre-optic connections so the length of copper in the circuit is reduced to that from your house to the cabinet, rather than the full distance from your house to the telephone exchange.
Customers within 500m of a cabinet should see the full service speed, currently 40 Mbits/s down and 10 Mbits/s up. Villages connected to the Stamford Exchange including Ryhall, Belmesthorpe and Uffington have also had cabinets installed, look out for small green cabinets on the roadside :-
NCC also have a Superfast Northamptonshire blog
Meanwhile, up the road in Stamford in Lincolnshire there's a hive of construction activity as BT install streetside cabinets to provide "up to 40 Mbits/s" broadband over the phone line. These cabinets contain electronics that supply a VDSL signal over the copper phone line, the cabinets themselves are fed with fibre-optic connections so the length of copper in the circuit is reduced to that from your house to the cabinet, rather than the full distance from your house to the telephone exchange.
Customers within 500m of a cabinet should see the full service speed, currently 40 Mbits/s down and 10 Mbits/s up. Villages connected to the Stamford Exchange including Ryhall, Belmesthorpe and Uffington have also had cabinets installed, look out for small green cabinets on the roadside :-
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Possible price reductions
OFCOM have announced a price cap on the charges BT Wholesale can make to retail ISPs on Market 1 exchanges like Wansford. The cap applies to a product called "IPStream Connect" which is currently used by six ISPs - BT, Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin, Orange and Entanet.
The price cap should reduce wholesale costs by about 11% below inflation but whether we see that as lower retail prices, more capacity for peak times or more profit for the ISPs remains to be seen.
An unintended consequence is that lower prices from BT Wholesale make it less attractive for other providers to install equipment. Talk Talk for example said this measure would reduce their expansion plans. On the other hand it may create an incentive for BT to introduce faster ADSL2+ services which are free of this price cap.
The price cap should reduce wholesale costs by about 11% below inflation but whether we see that as lower retail prices, more capacity for peak times or more profit for the ISPs remains to be seen.
An unintended consequence is that lower prices from BT Wholesale make it less attractive for other providers to install equipment. Talk Talk for example said this measure would reduce their expansion plans. On the other hand it may create an incentive for BT to introduce faster ADSL2+ services which are free of this price cap.
Tuesday 5 July 2011
Update on BDUK submissions.
I had a chat with Doug Perkins at East Cambs who is heading the Cambs county initiative. Their strategy is to prepare a bid for submission towards the end of the year. The only overlap with Wansford exchange area will be the Huntingdonshire District Council area to the south of the Nene - Stibbington, Sibson, etc. Apparently Sue Bedlow at the Economic Development Unit at Huntingdonshire is involved in this.
Wittering, Sutton and "Wansford north of the river" fall into Peterborough City unitary authority, I had a holding email from them and will update when more information received. Doug Perkins said that Peterborough were attending a BDUK event so something is happening. The challenge will be to get the rural fringes onto their agenda, given that Peterborough City already has Virgin Media cable and BT rolling out Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC, including "BT Infinity") in the Ortons, Yaxley etc.
Wittering, Sutton and "Wansford north of the river" fall into Peterborough City unitary authority, I had a holding email from them and will update when more information received. Doug Perkins said that Peterborough were attending a BDUK event so something is happening. The challenge will be to get the rural fringes onto their agenda, given that Peterborough City already has Virgin Media cable and BT rolling out Fibre to the cabinet (FTTC, including "BT Infinity") in the Ortons, Yaxley etc.
Sunday 3 July 2011
Cambridgeshire AWOL
There appears to be white space on Peterborough City and Cambridgeshire on a map of Broadband activity recently presented by BDUK :
At least Northamptonshire County Council has submitted a Local Broadband Plan and that plan includes Wansford exchange in its first phase. Speaking of Northants, they have a somewhat underused forum for discussion of their broadband project at their blog site.
A little searching turned up a rather amusing response "
No results found for "cambridgeshire broadband plan". " which rather confirms what the map says. The same result is achieved by searching for "Peterborough broadband plan". Northamptonshire at least achieves a single hit.
I did find a somewhat empty site Cambridgeshire Broadband Together led by East Cambs District Council. Nothing was to be found on Peterborough City Council web site. I think I shall have to ask.
At least Northamptonshire County Council has submitted a Local Broadband Plan and that plan includes Wansford exchange in its first phase. Speaking of Northants, they have a somewhat underused forum for discussion of their broadband project at their blog site.
A little searching turned up a rather amusing response "
No results found for "cambridgeshire broadband plan". " which rather confirms what the map says. The same result is achieved by searching for "Peterborough broadband plan". Northamptonshire at least achieves a single hit.I did find a somewhat empty site Cambridgeshire Broadband Together led by East Cambs District Council. Nothing was to be found on Peterborough City Council web site. I think I shall have to ask.
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