| Posted: Thursday 18th March 2004 by
Paul & Sam |
The greatly anticipated RFS dates have at last arrived. With 89 dates in total, this is a reasonably large list. However, we must take into account that this is infact a list for 2 weeks, which averages to 45.5 dates per week, which is nowhere near the current average of 70 exchanges triggering per week. Still, we'll have to wait and see what the solution planned for the end of the month is.
It is also worth noting that this list included only 8 provisional dates (RFS dates greater than 150 days from now). However, some of these are nearly a year away. Hatherleigh has now knocked Llansteffan off the longest trigger to enablement chart with 398 days compared to the latters 380 days.
The UK now has 2414 ADSL enabled telephone exchanges, 642 exchanges with RFS dates (excludes provisional dates), 403 awaiting a RFS date to be set, 1538 trying to reach their trigger and 594 who have no trigger level at all (including the two remaining unviable exchanges).
The 89 RFS dates released today are shown below.
Newton Ferrers Wed 26/05/2004
Athelstaneford Wed 02/06/2004
Abinger Wed 07/07/2004
Caerwys Wed 07/07/2004
Dutton Diffeth Wed 07/07/2004
Garelochhead Wed 07/07/2004
Inkberrow Wed 07/07/2004
Killearn Wed 07/07/2004
Long Stratton Wed 07/07/2004
Newton Stewart Wed 07/07/2004
Scartho Wed 07/07/2004
Tayport Wed 07/07/2004
Winterton Wed 07/07/2004
Aberchirder Wed 14/07/2004
Baillies Mills Wed 14/07/2004
Ballachulish Wed 14/07/2004
Bishampton Wed 14/07/2004
Blaenavon Wed 14/07/2004
Bradley Wed 14/07/2004
Chipping Wed 14/07/2004
Crossgar Wed 14/07/2004
Darvel Wed 14/07/2004
Duddington Wed 14/07/2004
Fairlie Wed 14/07/2004
Farndon Wed 14/07/2004
Furnace End Wed 14/07/2004
Garsington Wed 14/07/2004
Hamnavoe Wed 14/07/2004
Hartfield Wed 14/07/2004
Inkpen Wed 14/07/2004
Inverallochy Wed 14/07/2004
Kemble Wed 14/07/2004
Kings Cliffe Wed 14/07/2004
Llanferres Wed 14/07/2004
Llanteg Wed 14/07/2004
Long Sutton Wed 14/07/2004
Lundin Links Wed 14/07/2004
Moelfre Wed 14/07/2004
Much Marcle Wed 14/07/2004
Newtonmore Wed 14/07/2004
Shebbear Wed 14/07/2004
Sheering Wed 14/07/2004
Tarves Wed 14/07/2004
Welford Wed 14/07/2004
Winsford Wed 14/07/2004 | Wolvesnewton Wed 14/07/2004
Aldeby Wed 21/07/2004
Baumber Wed 21/07/2004
Bedlinog Wed 21/07/2004
Beningbrough Wed 21/07/2004
Botwnnog Wed 21/07/2004
Braunston Wed 21/07/2004
Coddenham Wed 21/07/2004
Coombe Bissett Wed 21/07/2004
Copplestone Wed 21/07/2004
Debenham Wed 21/07/2004
Fishguard Wed 21/07/2004
Fordham (Cambs) Wed 21/07/2004
Great Wenham Wed 21/07/2004
Kilham Wed 21/07/2004
Lacock Wed 21/07/2004
Llanarmon Yn Ial Wed 21/07/2004
Llandeilo Wed 21/07/2004
Newnham Bridge Wed 21/07/2004
Newtonhill Wed 21/07/2004
Old Rayne Wed 21/07/2004
Overstrand Wed 21/07/2004
Rendham Wed 21/07/2004
Resolven Wed 21/07/2004
Rossett Wed 21/07/2004
Rufford Wed 21/07/2004
Saint Germans Wed 21/07/2004
Selkirk Wed 21/07/2004
Tenbury Wells Wed 21/07/2004
Upsall Wed 21/07/2004
Watlington (Norfolk) Wed 21/07/2004
West Harptree Wed 21/07/2004
Westbury On Severn Wed 21/07/2004
Wye Wed 21/07/2004
Yetminster Wed 21/07/2004
Hanbury Wed 28/07/2004
Ochiltree Wed 08/09/2004
Gairloch Wed 22/09/2004
Chevington Wed 13/10/2004
Pennant Wed 24/11/2004
Peldon Wed 12/01/2005
Golspie Wed 23/02/2005
Monymusk Wed 23/02/2005
Hatherleigh Wed 23/03/2005 |
A further message from Donna Young (General Manager, Broadband Britain, BT Wholesale) was also posted on the BT campaigner message boards. In this she acknowledged that they realised that these weren't all the dates that people had hoped for, and also that they were hoping to get back to a regular announcement day (see the following quote).
"Our teams are working to re-establish a regular flow of RFS dates being released and we’ll let you know soon when to expect updates – it should be a Thursday. We’ve also picked up on your feedback that if for some reason we can’t release any dates on the expected day you’d like to know. If that is the case, and we will do all we can to avoid it happening, we’ll tell you."
(Donna Young, Thursday 18th March 2004)
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