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Offline Simon

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BT drops village broadband bill from £550,000 to £100
« on: September 09, 2010, 22:23 »
For residents in the Welsh community of Erbistock near Wrexham the broadband revolution has been like waiting for buses. Nothing for years, and then two services arrive at once.

The hitherto "notspot" has until now been without any form of broadband, lying too far from BT's telephone exchange to receive ADSL, but things are about to change.

The village was at the centre of a telecoms row earlier this week when it was revealed that BT had quoted village campaigners, who were willing to pay for infrastructure costs for a connection, a staggering £550,000 to connect the community.

Read more: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/361027/bt-drops-village-broadband-bill-from-550-000-to-100
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Re: BT drops village broadband bill from £550,000 to £100
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2010, 01:37 »
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Re: BT drops village broadband bill from £550,000 to £100
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2010, 10:33 »
BT are now running a spoiler campaign, offering to move their lines to ADSL connected exchanges. Strange how they didn't think to do that earlier.
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Re: BT drops village broadband bill from £550,000 to £100
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2010, 11:25 »
Yes, funny, that.  :o:
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Re: BT drops village broadband bill from £550,000 to £100
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2010, 11:06 »
Bloody hell!   :o


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