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It really is luck of the draw.

I moved home last week, so i'm on a mobile dongle for the next 12 days... :crap:

My old exchange serves just 9,532 residential premises, and has a FTTC RFS date for December this year.

My new exchange serves three times as many residents, but has yet to be given a RFS date.

I think BT use a map, a set of darts and a blindfold to decide who gets FTTC.
 
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I would look at a map, you may find that the exchanges being FTTC'ed cover defence contractors or other high value business'.
That is why Malvern had an early ADSL/ADSL_MAX upgrade, so that what is now Qinetiq could get a faster internet connection.
 
This is a well known problem and it's the reason why we keep saying in the news that the issue of superfast broadband availability is not merely an exclusively rural issue.

For example, some towns that have been built up over the last 10 years+ may connect to an exchange that was built just before and thus resides much further away. The result is that the exchange can cover many homes and businesses but the service performance will be very poor.

The obvious solution is to build a new exchange, but that can cost huge amounts of money. IMO this is the area where more localised fibre optic broadband solutions could play a big part, but first they'd need access to BT's cable ducts to avoid complicated and expensive road works.

However we should remember that BT's rollout plan is not yet complete and the late-2012-2015 period has yet to be announced.
 
It does seem a lottery, I agree. I live in semi-rural Cheshire and we now have FTTC, thankfully, as internet availability was always appallingly bad in our area. Yet talking to a couple of friends, one in Greater London (0208 number) and one in Reading, the 0208 number isin't getting FTTC till the end of the year and the Reading number has no projected date for FTTC.
 
I would look at a map, you may find that the exchanges being FTTC'ed cover defence contractors or other high value business'.
That is why Malvern had an early ADSL/ADSL_MAX upgrade, so that what is now Qinetiq could get a faster internet connection.

Not so sure on that - waited for ages for GU34 2PP to get FTTC as I want to rent a local office there. That town, Alton, has dreadful connectivity - ADSL or, well, nothing.

FTTC comes and goes - town has been done - I can't find a single premises anywhere in the central-ish area which can get the service.

Generally, only the residential areas have been done, and even there, only some.

The postcode I want it at probably has some leased lines. And I wonder if there's a connection between that and the rollout plan. Generally, in that town, businesses cannot get the service.

Separately however and to pick up on MarkJ's point - postcode AL7 2QF - where we lived a few years back -can't get broadband at all by any means unless 3G is there now (or they extended the cable network 1km to the east). Just over 3km from the exchange, line quality too poor/length too long for even a narrowband (say 3Meg) connection, let alone "broadband".

So the residents of that bit of WGC will indeed be able to access broadband for the first time this year as it is on the plan. Case of the tech going where it needs to in that case (if it happens).
 
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