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TFL Wireless Broadband Service Saves Customers GBP3m in Pembrokeshire

Posted: 09th Nov, 2010 By: MarkJ
wales uk broadband mapfixed wireless uk wales broadband tflTFL-Group, a fixed wireless ( Wi-Fi , WiMAX ) broadband ISP based in Wales (UK), claims that its customers in Pembrokeshire have collectively managed to save £3 million through being able to connect to high speed internet access services. TFL believes that this would not have been possible under the "prohibitive connection costs" for conventional BT based broadband services.

According to TFL, Power Station contractors such as Alsthom, RWE, BOC, Shaw, Dornan, John Sisk and others have estimated that gaining access to broadband via conventional means at the construction site would have cost them a combined total well in excess of £2 million for the supply of BT telephony and communications services.

Neil Morgan of Nemo Electrical commented:

"Construction continues at the Pembroke site and yet not one of the site contractors has access to a ‘conventional’ wired telephone line – there are literally no phone lines on site at all.

All head office communications, email, web access, file transfer and administration activities for all contractors are wireless based – I can’t imagine how any of these business could operate without the wireless services we have on site.

TFL Director, Jonathan England, added:

"In areas of Pembrokeshire which cannot receive broadband services via BT, businesses have faced astronomical quotations from the organisation. One establishment was quoted £25,000 just to install a BT line which would only have delivered 0.5mpbs – a speed which can barely be described as ‘broadband’.

Today, that same organisation is now receiving a state of the art, 5Mbps SDSL [ED: same speed both ways] wireless broadband service from TFL at a cost 80% less than that quoted by BT."

We wouldn't call speeds of 5Mbps "state of the art", indeed it's below Ofcom's UK average of 5.2Mbps. However the symmetrical upload speed of 5Mbps does make up somewhat for the slower download rate and it's certainly many times faster than BT's 0.5Mbps.

TFL believes in a wireless future for Welsh broadband "not-spots" and suggests that it would be wrong for Pembrokeshire organisations to place any expectation or reliance on BT ever addressing the area's problems conclusively.

Jonathan England concluded:

"Realistically, BT is a private enterprise and needs to focus on making money – and sadly, there is simply not enough money for them to be made in this area which would ever justify further investment in the county’s wired telephone infrastructure.

‘X-Factor-style’ competitions like their current ‘Race to Infinity’ campaign have certainly captured the public imagination – but it is inevitable that the majority of communities who plan on responding will end up disappointed."

TFL's wireless service originates in Swansea, where a high-speed sub-surface fibre optic broadband link is then carried above ground throughout Mid and West Wales via TFL’s privately-owned wireless tower site infrastructure.

This steadily-expanding tower structure has put TFL in a unique position to provide faster broadband and telecommunications services to practically any location within the mid and west of the country, so they claim.
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