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Battle for broadband in rural areas
A villager has voiced his frustration over the lack of broadband in rural areas.
Steve Bolter feels villages such as his own, Gestingthorpe, are let down by BT broadband services party because towns and cities get priority.
Mr Bolter, a Gestingthorpe parish councillor, changed to BT to get broadband in October 2006.
He had broadband for seven and a half months then his service was cut.
Mr Bolter is still trying to get the service put back again and although other villagers have broadband he says the "service remains poor".
Mr Bolter said: "It's a bit of a battle whether you get it or not.
"I think they ought to get villages up to the basic standard before they upgrade the towns' services."
Paul Hayward, BT spokesman, said: "Unfortunately in a very small number of cases there are telephone lines that cannot sustain an ADSL broadband connection.
"In this case the length of the line from the telephone exchange to the property means that the signal is too weak to keep connected.
"Engineers did all they could to resolve this but were not able to get broadband to work consistently, which is why the service was ceased."
3:53pm Thursday 17th January 2008
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CommentPosted by: Terry Raybould, Belchamp Walter on 2:09pm Tue 29 Jan 08
The BT representative Paul Hayward is right they do spend a lot of time trying to get a broadband service into areas that are to far away from an exchange (and where the quality of the lines are sub standard) What he does not say is that there is a solution, but BT are not willing to upgrade the lines and install power boosters to push the signal that little bit further. In this the goverment are in agreement (DEFRA)as after many promises from BT via DEFRA they finally advised us in Belchamp Walter to try and get a Wireless Broadband facilty installed as the only economical way of getting broadband in our village. This is now installed and slowly the people who want it are being connected, this will give people in Gestingthorpe who are having problems with reliability with another option. But like many things when you chose to live a little way outside the main towns it costs more than a land line solution. Regards Terry Raybould
The BT representative Paul Hayward is right they do spend a lot of time trying to get a broadband service into areas that are to far away from an exchange (and where the quality of the lines are sub standard) What he does not say is that there is a solution, but BT are not willing to upgrade the lines and install power boosters to push the signal that little bit further. In this the goverment are in agreement (DEFRA)as after many promises from BT via DEFRA they finally advised us in Belchamp Walter to try and get a Wireless Broadband facilty installed as the only economical way of getting broadband in our village. This is now installed and slowly the people who want it are being connected, this will give people in Gestingthorpe who are having problems with reliability with another option. But like many things when you chose to live a little way outside the main towns it costs more than a land line solution. Regards Terry Raybould
Posted by: Ben Feacey, Belchamp Walter on 3:03pm Thu 8 May 08
i have recently moved into a house in belchamp walter and tried to connect my modem to a broadband signal but failed. i have had 2 or 3 hours once where there was a signal but thats it.
how do i connect to the local signal ?
i have recently moved into a house in belchamp walter and tried to connect my modem to a broadband signal but failed. i have had 2 or 3 hours once where there was a signal but thats it.
how do i connect to the local signal ?
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