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RFS dates for today (13th May 2004)

Posted: Thursday 13th May 2004 by Sam
BT Wholesale have just released a further 28 RFS dates. The remaining exchanges which have either triggered or were included in the list of 42 above 90%, will have their RFS dates released tomorrow. Todays list of 28 is as follows:

Newburgh (Fife) 15/09/2004
Slamannan 10/11/2004
Bainbridge 08/12/2004
Cutnall Green 08/12/2004
Eardiston 08/12/2004
Masham 15/12/2004
St Keverne 15/12/2004
Aultbea 22/12/2004
Earl Soham 05/01/2005
Dalmally 26/01/2005
Buchlyvie 02/03/2005
Kirkpatrick Durham 09/03/2005
Uplawmoor 09/03/2005
Dolwyddelan 30/03/2005
St Briavels 30/03/2005
Tregony 30/03/2005
Studland 27/04/2005
Comrie 04/05/2005
Limekilns 04/05/2005
Watten 04/05/2005
Newburgh 08/06/2005
Avebury 06/07/2005
Crossford 06/07/2005
Bampton 27/07/2005
Dymock 27/07/2005
Glamis 27/07/2005
Lamlash 27/07/2005
Velindre 27/07/2005

This means that tomorrows release should contain 60 RFS dates (55 triggered exchanges + 5 of the original 42 who were within 10% of triggering when the preregistration scheme closed).

Let's hope that BT is able to move a few of these more distant RFS dates (such as Velindre's 27th July 2005) forward. It is worth pointing out that after the end of June it is extremely unlikely that any RFS dates will be moved at all. This is because the 150-day limit on pre-ordering for ADSL is being removed, meaning that you could pre-order even if the RFS date was over a year away. But once an ISP begins taking pre-orders, BT are very unlikely to want to be moving RFS dates!

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