After the backlash from yesterdays RFS announcement, BT have just stated that next week they will be releasing dates for all exchanges that triggered up until the end of December.
“We will be announcing RFS dates next Tues/Wed for all those exchanges that triggered up to the end of December.
We have also made progress on the
As some of you have noticed, I upgraded (and temporarily broke!) the availability checker last night. You can now check everything (ADSL, SDSL, NTL, Telewest, Bulldog and Easynet) using only a postcode. Easynet checking is much faster now (both with postcode and phone number), and a timeout has been introduced for the NTL checker
Yesterdays RFS dates seem to have generated a large amount of negative attention amongst campaigners. Whilst the quantity (52 dates) makes a slight impact in the 315 odd backlog, most people are more worried about ‘queue jumping’.
Whilst some exchanges have been waiting 50 days or more for a RFS date, some in yesterdays announcement
A whole new batch of RFS dates have just been released, which are as follows.
BIRDHAM Wed 31/03/2004
BOLNEY 31/03/2004
SHARPTHORNE 31/03/2004
BUNGAY 12/05/2004 1
RUTHIN 12/05/2004
AYLSHAM 12/05/2004
LITTLE CLACTON 12/05/2004
EDINBURGH WESTER HAILES 12/05/2004
DUNDEE CLAVERHOUSE 12/05/2004
CHECKENDON 12/05/2004
SHORNE 12/05/2004
OVERSEAL 12/05/2004
HEXTON 12/05/2004
KEMPSEY 12/05/2004
ASPULL 12/05/2004
WARBOROUGH 12/05/2004
COCKWELLS 12/05/2004
RHUDDLAN 12/05/2004
LETTERSTON 12/05/2004
ANDOVERSFORD 12/05/2004
HORRINGER 12/05/2004
RAVENSDEN 12/05/2004
SWANTON MORLEY 12/05/2004
SWIMBRIDGE 12/05/2004
MATTISHALL 12/05/2004
KESWICK 19/05/2004
PENTYRCH 19/05/2004
OGMORE VALLEY 19/05/2004
GERMOE 19/05/2004
SAWSTON 19/05/2004
NUTFIELD RIDGE 19/05/2004
RAVENHILL
Firstly, thanks to everyone for the positive feedback about the counties. The hits to the site doubled today - I didn’t realise that they were that interesting! It was Paul’s idea - so thank him
Okay, the new stuff…
The most interesting addition today is the new Broadband Availability Checker. It checks BT ADSL, BT
I’ve just received word that the following exchanges will be enabled as a part of the Switch On Shropshire / Advantage West Midlands project. These probably won’t appear on the checker until tomorrow at the earliest.
Queens Head - March 16th
Church Stretton - March 18th
Longville - March 31st
Whixall - May 26th
To kick off my two weeks break from University I’ve added a few new features to the site.
Firstly, exchange data is now categorised by county as well as region. Well, I say counties, but some areas are clearly split down further in to boroughs. The same statistical information is available for counties as with the
It was announced this morning by BT Wholesale and One NorthEast that all non-ADSL enabled exchanges in the North East would be enabled by March 2005. The project is costing in excess of £10 million.
Tony Blair himself was on hand to witness the switch-on of his local Exchange (Trimdon). Both the Prime Minister and Ben
Just a small snippet of news;
“Please note that all 4 exchanges in [the Gwynedd] partnership now have RFS dates of 18th March.”
That means that Llanwnda and Pwllheli have had just under 2 weeks shaved off their dates. The other two (Port Dinorwic and Bethesda) remain unchanged.
BT have just posted the following on their message boards:
“We would expect to see dates next week for those that triggered pre Christmas - although we may be lucky…we have our fingers crossed for a good batch next week.”
Whilst this is by no means a concrete statement like last week, it would follow that we
BT Wholesale today announced that they will be offering usage based broadband product to service providers from later this year.
The new system would allow for service providers to select the maximum network bandwidth (similar to what happens now), or the maximum network usage (data transfer) per month.
Both of these new options would be cheaper than
As BT promised, here’s the new RFS dates for today. First up, the normal dates:
DALMELLINGTON Wed 28/04/2004
KIRKBYMOORSIDE Wed 05/05/2004
HOLT (NORFOLK) Wed 05/05/2004
SUTTON CROSS Wed 05/05/2004
MELLS Wed 05/05/2004
HUTTON RUDBY Wed 05/05/2004
GREAT BEDWYN Wed 05/05/2004
CHURCHILL Wed 05/05/2004
LITTLE GADDESDEN Wed 05/05/2004
SCOTLANDWELL Wed 05/05/2004
RAMSDEN Wed 05/05/2004
BRENT PELHAM Wed 05/05/2004
OAKWOOD HILL Wed 05/05/2004
NORMANBY BY SPITAL Wed 05/05/2004
HAYTOR Wed 05/05/2004
BLACKMOOR Wed
There’s been lots of talk on the BT message boards today about campaigners receiving unsolicited mail from a certain company. It appears that this company (which shall not be named here) used the campaigns list this site to harvest the addresses.
Whilst they deny that their email was spam, I and many of the recipients
After my post earlier this afternoon, an announcement was made on the BT message boards stating the following:
“Over the next couple of weeks we are going to get back to a regular day to make RFS announcements as far as this is possible. This will be by Wednesday this week.” …
… “As I mentioned before,
Firstly, sorry I forgot to post this when I heard it the other day, but next week we have been told to expect that all exchanges that triggered up to mid-December will receive a RFS date. Whether this actually happens or not is another matter!
As announced some time ago, BT were planning on enabling a
Whilst the backlog of exchanges awaiting a Ready For Service date still lingers around the 200 mark, many have begun to spot patterns in the released dates and when the trigger level was set.
David Peilow (of Faster Internet), Paul Buck and myself discussed the matter and wondered what a graph of the data would
Today see’s the addition of 51 new RFS dates. These are split into a few categories, so listen up!
Firstly, we have the normal RFS dates, which are as follows:
RUSKINGTON Wed 24/03/2004
HOLBEACH Wed 24/03/2004
LLANDRINDOD WELLS Wed 24/03/2004
HATFIELD PEVEREL Wed 24/03/2004
PURITON Wed 24/03/2004
KIMBERLEY Wed 24/03/2004
BREWOOD Wed 24/03/2004
KIRTON LINDSEY Wed 24/03/2004
NEWDIGATE Wed 24/03/2004
DIPTON Wed 24/03/2004
EARLSWOOD Wed 24/03/2004
GRENDON UNDERWOOD
The linear exchange graphs have been requested quite a lot by the hardcore statistics junkies, so here they are -
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/linear-graph.php?ecode=SWTAT
Whilst that doesn’t look much to the eye, you can specify a limit in days to go back. (Not specifying a limit shows ALL data for the exchange!)
For example; http://www.samknows.com/broadband/linear-graph.php?ecode=SWTAT&limit=30
The advantages to these graphs? Well, they
That’s right… as of a couple of days ago (yes yes, I forgot to check) the site had taken 10,000 registrations! These were gathered from the “Register Now” link at the top left, campaigners websites that integrated my form, spreadsheets manually sent to me and, most recently, from the new Get On And Get It
For everyone who’s anxiously awaiting more RFS dates this could come as a nice piece of news. Firstly, BT will be releasing new RFS dates either tomorrow (Friday) or Monday. Additionaly, they are also trying to find a regular spot in the week to release dates. This is one of the main complaints with the