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I live about 8 miles west of Cambridge which is also known to be the capital of "Silicon Fen". The village I'm in is not small, has a famous heart hospital and a thriving business park/light industrial estate.
I saw video on the BBC last week where one man on an island off the Isle of Skye was get what he called super fast speeds. This seemed to use an awful lot of equipment and I believe was funded by a rural broadband project.
My connection on a good day is less than 5mb, most people around me get 2mb if they are lucky.
Our BT exchange is about 1.5 miles away and BT have no plans to install fibre before 2015 and so far no rural broadband funding
My gripe is were I live we don't seem to be rural enough to get some cash from the governments rural broadband pot of cash but obviously not attractive enough to BT to install fibre.
I'd really like to get hold of a BT representative who can tell me why we are not down for fibre, not a call centre worker who knows nothing but an area manger or planner who can tell me more. Any ideas how I can do this?
And finally to make matters worse we have a Virgin media exchange in the village, green cable boxes but no cable as virgin say its too expensive to put in place.
I saw video on the BBC last week where one man on an island off the Isle of Skye was get what he called super fast speeds. This seemed to use an awful lot of equipment and I believe was funded by a rural broadband project.
My connection on a good day is less than 5mb, most people around me get 2mb if they are lucky.
Our BT exchange is about 1.5 miles away and BT have no plans to install fibre before 2015 and so far no rural broadband funding
My gripe is were I live we don't seem to be rural enough to get some cash from the governments rural broadband pot of cash but obviously not attractive enough to BT to install fibre.
I'd really like to get hold of a BT representative who can tell me why we are not down for fibre, not a call centre worker who knows nothing but an area manger or planner who can tell me more. Any ideas how I can do this?
And finally to make matters worse we have a Virgin media exchange in the village, green cable boxes but no cable as virgin say its too expensive to put in place.























