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How many people have registered
their interest with BT for ADSL in your area?
| Bloxham |
323
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64%
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| Chadlington |
100
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100%
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| Charlbury |
150
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100%
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| Chipping
Norton |
350
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100%
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| Deddington |
247
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82%
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| Haddington |
300
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100%
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| Hook Norton |
105
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35%
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| Shipton u Wychwood |
279
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55%
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| Stanton St
John |
105
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70%
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| Steeple
Aston |
300
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100%
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| Woodstock |
300  |
100%
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(Entries
in bold have hit their trigger levels).
Would you like us to list your exchange here?
Contact us, ensuring
that you tell us your telephone number (so we
can identify the exchange).
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BT have announced that they now have over
1,000,000 ADSL customers in the UK.
This,
remarkably, has given BT confidence that
their really is demand for broadband
in Britain and are celebrating by lowering
trigger levels by 50 on all exchanges where
a level has been set.
Good
news indeed, now we just need them to announce
a decent plan to get rural broadband up
and we'll soon be as advanced as Poland!
Chadlington
residents - we need you!
We're
hatching a plan to get Wireless Broadband
rolled out in our village - Click
Here to find out how you can help.
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Both the business and residential
communities of Oxfordshire seem to be lagging behind the rest
of the south when it comes to broadband access. This is a
particularly Bad Thing for our businesses as fast Internet
access is now becoming the norm globally and while our competitors
are able to communicate effectively with our customers online,
we are not.
 The
benefits of broadband are significant - you are always online,
your emails are sent and received in real time, you can take
advantage of cost saving Internet phone calls and fax services,
you can research products and markets in a fraction of the
time and you can subscribe to real-time services such as the
Stock Exchange. None of this is easily available on a dialup
connection.
Now that the monthly
costs of broadband are only slightly higher than Freephone
dialup access, it makes sense to have it in our businesses
- but we can't.
Why? Because our telephone
exchanges haven't been upgraded to handle the service. BT
needs good economic reason for incurring the cost of an upgrade
as each exchange costs "several hundred thousand pounds"
to enable for ADSL. That means they won't consider upgrading
our exchanges until customers come forward and demonstrate
consumer demand.
Simply register your
details with BT by clicking here,
or if you're short of time just fill in the form opposite
and we'll register on your behalf.
Telephone exchanges
which have already been costed for upgrade have had "trigger
levels" set - the number of registrations needed to make
it cost effective to upgrade it. In most cases, it takes between
200 and 400 registrations to qualify.
On smaller exchanges
which haven't had their trigger levels set, BT have stated
that if they see the demand they'll perform a cost analysis
and publish a trigger level - either way, registering your
vote counts.
BT have cottoned on to that scam!
Once the trigger levels are reached, BT give
the registration details to ISP's (Internet Service Providers)
in that exchange area to start collecting confirmed orders.
If those orders fail to materialise, the exchange goes back
to 0 registrations and we have to start again.
For that reason, only
register if there's a good chance you'll sign up for ADSL
once it's available.
The ADSL
Guide is perhaps the most comprehensive source of information,
including a beginners guide, Q&A, ISP comparisons, demand
tracker etc. Click
Here to open it in a new browser.
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