Noodleyman
Regular Member
YAY, for those of us stuck in the dark ages, it will be a long overdue step in the right direction. However, I am finding very little information related to the launch of the USO on Friday.
One thing that has had me puzzled since reading the USO T&C's is it is not clear who to contact on Friday. my ISP, who is BT, or openreach?
It may be too early to know, but thought I would check if anybody else is aware of the process to raise a USO request with BT from Friday?
For reference, we are in mid-Devon, stuck on a long line which contains Aluminium in sections, our exchange is still on old school ADSL, no ADSL2 or 21CN there yet. we get on average 1.8Mb sustained, unstable speeds via classic ADSL. those closer to the exchange are lucky to get FTTC, but us long liners are too far away. we tried FTTC once, it too 2 days to sync and finally negotiated 2 bits down, 0 up.
We currently use 4G with an external antenna via the Three unlimited data package, but this only gets us 6Mb down, 0.5Mb up depending on which way the wind blows and if the sun is out.
Fibre on demand quoted at over £90,000 to install and £2,500 per month ongoing cost, the last community scheme I had priced up was about £9,000 per property. I am hoping the cost per property came down since so we qualify for the USO!
We've had no service over the line for 4 weeks as of today since it got hit by lightning in February... fun times. Really want some fibre!
Exchange code: WWMBSH
One thing that has had me puzzled since reading the USO T&C's is it is not clear who to contact on Friday. my ISP, who is BT, or openreach?
It may be too early to know, but thought I would check if anybody else is aware of the process to raise a USO request with BT from Friday?
For reference, we are in mid-Devon, stuck on a long line which contains Aluminium in sections, our exchange is still on old school ADSL, no ADSL2 or 21CN there yet. we get on average 1.8Mb sustained, unstable speeds via classic ADSL. those closer to the exchange are lucky to get FTTC, but us long liners are too far away. we tried FTTC once, it too 2 days to sync and finally negotiated 2 bits down, 0 up.
We currently use 4G with an external antenna via the Three unlimited data package, but this only gets us 6Mb down, 0.5Mb up depending on which way the wind blows and if the sun is out.
Fibre on demand quoted at over £90,000 to install and £2,500 per month ongoing cost, the last community scheme I had priced up was about £9,000 per property. I am hoping the cost per property came down since so we qualify for the USO!
We've had no service over the line for 4 weeks as of today since it got hit by lightning in February... fun times. Really want some fibre!
Exchange code: WWMBSH