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New RFS dates for 21/1/2004

Posted: Wednesday 21st January 2004 by Sam
As BT promised, here's the new RFS dates for today. First up, the normal dates:

DALMELLINGTON Wed 28/04/2004
KIRKBYMOORSIDE Wed 05/05/2004
HOLT (NORFOLK) Wed 05/05/2004
SUTTON CROSS Wed 05/05/2004
MELLS Wed 05/05/2004
HUTTON RUDBY Wed 05/05/2004
GREAT BEDWYN Wed 05/05/2004
CHURCHILL Wed 05/05/2004
LITTLE GADDESDEN Wed 05/05/2004
SCOTLANDWELL Wed 05/05/2004
RAMSDEN Wed 05/05/2004
BRENT PELHAM Wed 05/05/2004
OAKWOOD HILL Wed 05/05/2004
NORMANBY BY SPITAL Wed 05/05/2004
HAYTOR Wed 05/05/2004
BLACKMOOR Wed 05/05/2004
BONVILSTON Wed 05/05/2004
MUNSLOW Wed 05/05/2004
SEVERN STOKE Wed 05/05/2004
FINTRY Wed 05/05/2004
GREAT GRANSDEN Wed 05/05/2004
FLIMWELL Wed 05/05/2004
GIFFORD Wed 02/06/2004

Secondly, as we pondered last week, we have more dates that are over 150 days away. These will NOT appear on any of the trackers yet.

ABERLADY Wed 07/07/2004
BILLINGBOROUGH Wed 21/07/2004
WOOLACOMBE Wed 21/07/2004
UFFINGTON Wed 21/07/2004
STANTON ST JOHN Wed 21/07/2004
RUSPER Wed 21/07/2004
TISBURY Wed 28/07/2004
RAMSBURY Wed 25/08/2004
KIRBY WISKE Wed 25/08/2004
NETHYBRIDGE Wed 01/09/2004
DORMANS PARK Wed 22/09/2004
STRICHEN Wed 06/10/2004
BRACO Wed 27/10/2004
CAMPDEN Wed 22/12/2004

And finally, just four more partnership dates, this time by the Gwynedd partnership.

Port Dinorwic – 18/03/2004
Bethesda – 18/03/2004
Llanwnda – 31/03/2004
Pwllheli – 31/03/2004

I haven't had time to analyse them yet (I've literally just stepped out of an exam), but I will do shortly. Note that they will probably not appear on the checker on this site for a couple of hours, whilst we wait for bt.com/broadband to update with the information.

Update (3:25pm): After comparing the dates announced today to those that we heard should be announced (see two news items down!), I have to say that I'm reasonably impressed. BT released dates for 36 of the 38 exchanges on list David Peilow and myself produced last week, leaving out only Torphins (who triggered on the 14th Dec) and Torpoint (which was expected really).

However, as we speculated last week, 13 of these exchanges received dates over 150 days. BT say these will not appear on their tracker due to them working to try and bring them forward. One seemingly good example of this is Aberlady. This exchange received a provisional date last week and has had it brought forward almost 2 months now (although it is still over 150 days away and therefore provisional). It seems that the announcement of such provisional dates is becoming the norm.

Lastly, BT have said that this is it for this week - more dates due next week (by Wednesday again, if they stick to their new schedule!).

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