Eighteen Scottish Exchange Activate exchanges to be upgraded
The Scottish Executive has identified 18 exchanges that are suffering capacity issues and will be upgrading these between now and February 2008. All of these exchanges received ADSL as a part of BT’s Exchange Activate scheme, which has brought ADSL to around 150 exchanges (nearly all of which are in Scotland).
Unfortunately, Exchange Activate limits those connected to the exchange to 512kbps and places certain restrictions on which ISPs the customers may use. Fourteen of the exchanges that will be upgraded will see full ADSL installed (with support for the 8Mbps ADSL Max product). These exchanges are as follows:
| Arden - February 2008 | Ardvasar - February 2008 |
| Craignure - February 2008 | Fountainhall - February 2008 |
| Heriot - February 2008 | Keiss - February 2008 |
| Longhope - February 2008 | Onich - November 2007 |
| Plockton - November 2007 | Sanday - February 2008 |
| Sligachan - February 2008 | Struan - February 2008 |
| Tomatin - November 2007 | Waternish - February 2008 |
The four other exchanges - Birsay, Fern, Uig and Vidlin - will receive additional capacity for Exchange Activate connections (we assume this to mean an additional DSLAM).
Further information can be found on the Scottish Executive website.
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