| Posted: Sunday 16th September 2007 by
Sam |
Last month we reported that eighteen exchanges in Scotland were being upgraded, either by having full ADSL installed or by having additional "Exchange Activate" capacity added. We now hear that a further four exchanges are being upgraded to full ADSL and another ten are being given additional Exchange Activate capacity.
The four additional exchanges to receive full ADSL (including 8Mbps ADSL Max from BT Wholesale) are:
The ten additional exchanges that will receive additional Exchange Activate capacity are:
Please note that no dates have been given for any of these upgrades. Also, four of the exchanges which were due for upgrades in August 2007 have apparently slipped. These are: Birsay, Fern, Uig and Vidlin.
Exchange Activate was a BT scheme popular particularly in Scotland which saw rural exchanges that wouldn't otherwise have received ADSL be activated for it, albeit at a maximum of 512kbps. Nowadays 512kbps considered by many to not even fall under the "broadband" definition. |