Work starts to bring faster broadband to Herefordshire (From Hereford Times)
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Herefordshire Council and BT start to bring faster broadband to Herefordshire
10:10am Thursday 21st March 2013 in News
By Mark Bowen
WORK has started in the first Herefordshire communities to benefit from the multi-million pound project to roll-out faster broadband.
As part of a BT and Herefordshire Council project, engineers are building the new fibre network in Much Marcle, Ross on Wye, Symonds Yat, Upton Bishop, and St Weonards.
Around 10,000 homes and businesses will have access to faster broadband once the new network is complete, with the first customers expected to be connected during the autumn.
The ‘Fastershire’ project will involve hundreds of engineers working for BT’s local network business Openreach, laying 2,500 kilometres of optical fibre cable and installing around 800 new fibre broadband cabinets throughout the Herefordshire and Gloucestershire project area.
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bobby47
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11:35am Thu 21 Mar 13
mizza21
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12:11pm Thu 21 Mar 13
What's the point of it if I don't live there?
I live in a small group of about 5 houses miles from the exchange.
They will not come out to my hamlet with their fibre cables.
I get broadband at 2 whole great big Mb
Blasted waste of our money.
WYSIATI
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1:29pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Bring it on, do it well and do it quickly.
DWH196
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1:45pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Hilary Jones
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5:24pm Thu 21 Mar 13
Themightyboosh
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8:07pm Thu 21 Mar 13
TwoWheelsGood
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11:29pm Thu 21 Mar 13
WYSIATI wrote:As both parties have less than excellent reputations for doing things either well or quickly, you might be disappointed. Even the fibre rollout in Hereford City was delivered a year late, and that’s without the Council being involved. That said, it works a treat - I'm now running at 37MB.
Sorry to disagree but unless and until Herefordshire gets decent communication infrastructure the jobs and the people will keep leaving for places where these basic services for functioning in a modern world are available.
Bring it on, do it well and do it quickly.
We've discussed this proposal before when Jarvis Stepup was pictured, with his laptop, standing on a kerb to look taller than everyone else and I still can't see for the life of me why the Council have to put money in - do they get a %age of the profit back from BT? I very much doubt it.
Did they help towards the cost of the original copper network? No. Did they help install gas or electricity? No. Why then are they subsidising this?
incider says...
11:31am Thu 21 Mar 13
Bargain!