No luck for Bradley Stoke in latest round of broadband upgrades
Posted on Thursday 7th January 2010 at 12:18 am by SH (Editor)Broadband slowspot Bradley Stoke once again fails to feature in the latest list of BT exchanges scheduled for a fibre optic upgrade.
The south-west has five exchanges in the list: Blunsdon, Chippenham, Portishead, Toothill and Worle.
Many areas of Bradley Stoke have broadband speeds well below the Government’s Universal Service target of 2 Mbps.
A recent campaign to get Virgin Media to extend the coverage of its cable network ended in failure and local Councils say they have “run out of ideas” on how to encourage utility companies to improve the service.
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Saturday 9th January 2010 at 10:13 pm
Toothill/Blunsdon are districts of Swindon rather than towns in their own right…
Monday 11th January 2010 at 8:07 pm
Thanks for pointing that out Chris. And I can’t count either – there are five in the list, not four! Post updated accordingly.