NTHellWorld carries the story that NTL is about to start trials for a pay as you go broadband service in Guildford.
There are four pay as you go packages on offer, a “PAYG 150″ (150Kbps), a “PAYG 600″ (600Kbps) and a “Plus” variant of both of the those. It has been speculated that the Plus variants
Now that the server change and this weeks RFS dates are out of the way, I can at last reveal the new data output methods on this site. These scripts allow you to obtain and manipulate far more data from this site than is available through the simple Javascript statistics.
The more adventurous PHP programmers have
A new batch of 57 RFS dates was released a few minutes ago. These dates are as follows:
Dromore/Down 23/06/2004Castlewellan 23/06/2004Burry Port 23/06/2004Hollinswood 23/06/2004Eckington 23/06/2004Waddington 23/06/2004Rowhedge 23/06/2004Croston 23/06/2004Lye 23/06/2004Abersoch 23/06/2004Coningsby 23/06/2004Radcliffe On Trent 23/06/2004Aldington 23/06/2004Wolvey 23/06/2004Trefnant 23/06/2004Fulbourn 23/06/2004Finstown 23/06/2004St Marybourne 23/06/2004Honington 23/06/2004Castletown 23/06/2004Claverley 23/06/2004Eye 23/06/2004Micheldever 23/06/2004Mitchell 23/06/2004Stockbridge 23/06/2004Fittleworth 23/06/2004Elveden 23/06/2004Belcoo 23/06/2004Ashwicken 23/06/2004
Buckland 23/06/2004Maesglas 30/06/2004Wick 30/06/2004Wetheral 30/06/2004Nefyn
If you’re reading this then you’re now viewing the website on the new server. Hopefully you should be finding that the pages are loading a bit faster now!
I’d like to say a big thank you to Mark and Anthony from Hi-Velocity for sorting out the co-location for me. I know they worked until very late
Just a small snippet of news: Sadly there will be no more RFS dates this week, as was previously expected. They will instead be released next week.
In other site related news… The server co-location is going up this evening (hurrah!), so I’ll be moving the site on to there this weekend. Most people probably won’t
Less than 15 minutes after I hand crafted my own list, BT have now posted the official RFS list for today. The list contains 49 new dates and can be seen below. It is also worth mentioning that we’ve been told by BT that “More dates [are] expected later in the week.”. As usual, the
The latest batch of RFS dates have just started appearing on the BT regional pages. They have NOT yet been officially announced, nor are they appearing on any of the availability checkers (including BT’s).
To check if you have a RFS date, visit: http://62.172.198.79/broadband1/where_i_live/index.asp
Select your region and look down the list on the left hand side.
I
Whilst today and yesterday seem to have been bumper days for registrations, many people are still wondering where their registrations have got to.
First and foremost, it is important to remember that registrations can take days to appear - they are not instant! The reason for this will be explained later. Secondly, telephone lines that would
Just a brief bit of news between lectures… we have been told to expect more RFS dates to be released either today or tomorrow. With a bit of luck the next release will be a bit more substantial than yesterdays one
Alcatel today announced that they will be supplying the hardware and software to support BT’s new MegaStream Ethernet service.
This will be deployed on top of BT’s existing network, in 120 PoP’s (Points of Presence) throughout the UK.
However, this is far from a residential or even standard business service, which you can see from the pricing
The new RFS dates have just been posted on the BT campaigner boards. The 30 dates are as follows:
MILLOM 26/05/2004
BLOXHAM 26/05/2004
CAERGWRLE 26/05/2004
DUNDEE BAXTER 26/05/2004
HOUGHTON REGIS 26/05/2004
CRAIL 26/05/2004
ALLHALLOWS 26/05/2004
HAMBLEDON 26/05/2004
MILTON ABBAS 26/05/2004
BURGHCLERE 26/05/2004
CANNINGS 26/05/2004
ST CLEARS 26/05/2004
GATEFORTH 09/06/2004
ABERMULE 09/06/2004
SELLINDGE 09/06/2004
MALPAS 09/06/2004
GRAFFHAM 09/06/2004
WORTH MATRAVERS 09/06/2004
WROXHAM 23/06/2004
CAREW 23/06/2004
DUNNING 21/07/2004
ALDBOURNE 25/8/04
UPTON BISHOP 01/09/2004
ELSWORTH 22/09/2004
HENHAM 20/10/2004
DUNKELD 27/10/04
WINKLEIGH 27/10/04
HAWKCHURCH 27/10/2004
STAUNTON COURT 22/12/2004
BREAN
For everyone who’s still waiting: I’m afraid there’s still no word as to the whereabouts of last weeks RFS dates. It’s gone 5pm now, so it’s unlikely we’ll see anything today - but stranger things have happened!
I’ll keep this news item updated with the latest, although I won’t be around all evening.
With 99%+ of the UK able to receive broadband by 2005, there has understandably been lot’s of talk about what will come next. What are the next generation broadband services? When will they be implemented? How much demand is there for them?
As you can appreciate, the deployment of any service, be it broadband or anything
Sorry I didn’t post anything earlier about the RFS dates, but I’m afraid there’s been no news on them since this afternoon when we were told to expect them today.
There was however an announcement on vote4broadband earlier stating that 144 dates had been announced. By the looks of things though, these are mostly One NorthEast
More and more people have been sending me spreadsheets containing registrations recently. Whilst I didn’t mind this, it was quite time consuming to have to modify the data each time and import it in to the database.
We have a solution now though - an automated bulk registration system that allows anyone to upload a CSV
Following BT’s much trumped successes with the ADSL pre-registration scheme, word on the wires today is that BT will soon be launching a similar scheme for SDSL (Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line).
The difference between this and the ADSL scheme is that the SDSL one will not involve trigger levels (yet). It will be a case of
Here’s something rather useful that I was asked for a couple of weeks back - a dynamic graph that shows the current percentage of registrations for a given list of exchanges. This will be particularly interesting to those of you that run multiple campaigns
Anyway, there are two way’s of implementing it. Firstly, you
Well the server upgrade went okay, even though it did take us until 2am to finish it all!
I’ve finally updated maps this morning too, so hopefully everything should be looking alright. I’ll probably do them once every couple of weeks now, because it takes quite some time to do them all.
I’ve also been able
BT have been chosen by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment to provide Northern Ireland with 100% broadband coverage by 2005, according to an article by BBC News.
The contract was put up for tender in July 2003 and attracted 27 bidders. Enterprise Minister Ian Pearson said; “…BT offers the best prospect of securing a
The Register carries the story that BT are going to be deploying wireless kit for the 600 exchanges that do not currently have a trigger level.
This isn’t really new news, as it has long been known that BT were trialling such systems in Cornwall, Scotland and Wales for this very purpose.
The announcement that the trials