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Another day, another load of RFS changes! The news for all but three of the following exchanges is bad I’m afraid. Anyway, the list is as follows:

Exchange
Old RFS date
New RFS date

Duns
12/01/2005
09/02/2005

Ridgeway Cross
12/01/2005
23/02/2005

Northleach
05/01/2005
16/02/2005

Llangoed
05/01/2005
16/02/2005

Auchnagatt
22/12/2004
23/02/2005

Tarporley
22/12/2004
23/02/2005

Greenlaw
22/12/2004
02/02/2005

Montgomery
26/01/2005
22/12/2004

Kilkhampton
02/02/2005
22/12/2004

Copdock
13/04/2005
22/12/2004

This week heralds some good news for six exchanges and bad news for a further two.
The two exchanges which have had their RFS dates slip are as follows:

Exchange
Old RFS date
New RFS date

Llansteffan
22/12/2004
19/01/2005

Bodfari
29/12/2004
02/03/2005

The six exchanges which all see at least 4 weeks improvement over their original dates are as follows:

Exchange
Old RFS date
New RFS date

Nicholforest
23/03/2005
23/02/2005

Barbon
23/03/2005
23/02/2005

Borrowdale
23/03/2005
23/02/2005

Satterthwaite
23/03/2005
23/02/2005

Ramsey
18/05/2005
23/03/2005

Tackley
29/06/2005
23/03/2005

Five exchanges have been enabled for SDSL service 3 months ahead of schedule. Burton On Trent, Leicester, Luton, Scunthorpe and Tunbridge Wells were all enabled for BT’s SDSL offerings a week ago on December 13th. They were originally penned to go live at the end of March 2005. This brings the total BT SDSL enabled

Easynet are to offer LLUStream via their network of LLU exchanges - list here
Pricing is unclear as yet but in the press release from Easynet they are making noises about being significantly cheaper.
2005 should be a interesting year for LLU developments.
Wanadoo looking at rolling out LLU services
AOL has also mentioned that LLU rollout is a

Bulldog have silently unbundled an additional 23 exchanges recently. Whilst their Bulldog4 service is no longer available for purchase, it does mean that their integrated phone and internet packages are more widely available around London.
The full list of exchanges unbundled by Bulldog can be found here.
Cable & Wireless, who bought Bulldog earlier this year, still

BT Wholesale have announced a further 76 SDSL RFS dates, meaning that by the end of March next year, there will be 300 BT SDSL enabled exchanges in the UK.
These 300 exchanges were announced long before the recent announcement of 1000 new SDSL exchanges, and is entirely seperate.
The full list can be found here.