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Eighteen Scottish Exchange Activate exchanges to be upgraded

Posted: Tuesday 14th August 2007 by Sam
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 2008Ardvasar - February 2008
Craignure - February 2008Fountainhall - February 2008
Heriot - February 2008Keiss - February 2008
Longhope - February 2008Onich - November 2007
Plockton - November 2007Sanday - February 2008
Sligachan - February 2008Struan - February 2008
Tomatin - November 2007Waternish - 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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