Fibre available in my area - but I'm excluded!

*tarred.

Firstly you assume I am rich.

Secondly you don't realise I have worked for everything I own. From scratch, I know what rock bottom feels like.

Thirdly it is always the people who can't be bothered to put the effort in who sit there and accuse "rich people" of being the failing for all of their shortcomings in life.

Fourthly, I can see the appeal of evading tax given that the government gives it to people who can't be bothered to work.

Fifthly, Merry Christmas ;)
 
J05H86UK said:
The richest street in the villagae, is like saying the only gay in the village! You posh nonce lol - I live on a council estate, come at me bro!

Ahyway nothing constructive to add, I just wanted to abuse 86 for xmas!
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Shouldn't you be out robbing people of their Christmas presents? ;) :o
 
86JR said:
We had this, I pressured the local FTTC people via FB and eventually I guess they caved in and had our lines changed.
I live on the richest street in the village and everyone on the street pays high tax, the rest of the village is council houses who get 80mbit, so I went nuts when I learned this, that the people paying for benefits get 2mbit when the people on benefits get 80mbit hah.
Pleased with my connection now but obviously it still sucks when you pay tax and get half the speed that the people who leech off society get!
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I actually get faster speeds than this suggest though, Steam downloads at 62Mb/s, I can upload to FTP at 11Mb/s, Origin downloads at 90Mb/s...
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Cool story.

I live on a brand new estate - in a new four bedroom house with double garage and the cab is 10 meters away - so I get the full 80mb. So naaaa.
 
Lucky you! Have you got Fibre yet? There have been some issues with people who live right next to the cabinet not being able to get it, suprisingly enough.
 
86JR said:
We had this, I pressured the local FTTC people via FB and eventually I guess they caved in and had our lines changed.
I live on the richest street in the village and everyone on the street pays high tax, the rest of the village is council houses who get 80mbit, so I went nuts when I learned this, that the people paying for benefits get 2mbit when the people on benefits get 80mbit hah.
Pleased with my connection now but obviously it still sucks when you pay tax and get half the speed that the people who leech off society get!
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I actually get faster speeds than this suggest though, Steam downloads at 62Mb/s, I can upload to FTP at 11Mb/s, Origin downloads at 90Mb/s...
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What the hell has that got to do with anything? BT are a private company and can install what they want where they want.
 
Well I see the company is ZEN in your sig? I would still say it was BT who done the upgrade. As long as the company was private they can do what they want.
 
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86JR said:
We had this, I pressured the local FTTC people via FB and eventually I guess they caved in and had our lines changed.
I live on the richest street in the village and everyone on the street pays high tax, the rest of the village is council houses who get 80mbit, so I went nuts when I learned this, that the people paying for benefits get 2mbit when the people on benefits get 80mbit hah.
Pleased with my connection now but obviously it still sucks when you pay tax and get half the speed that the people who leech off society get!
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I actually get faster speeds than this suggest though, Steam downloads at 62Mb/s, I can upload to FTP at 11Mb/s, Origin downloads at 90Mb/s...
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Just LOL at the notion that BT's dsl infrastructure has anything whatsoever to do with property values, what an absolutely stupid post :p
 
We live on a private road, so they won't install fibre optic for us or any of the other 15 houses on the road, but people 50ft away can get fibre.

So we have no option than to stick with our 5mb download and ping of about 100. And that's on a good day. :(
 
Jez said:
Just LOL at the notion that BT's dsl infrastructure has anything whatsoever to do with property values, what an absolutely stupid post :p
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Of course it has, areas of high population/less individual buildings get it first...such as council flats and terraced council houses.
 
86JR said:
Of course it has, areas of high population/less individual buildings get it first...such as council flats and terraced council houses.
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What's that got to do with property values? Using that logic Kensington has a lower property value than an estate in Birmingham. Openreach upgrading a cabinet has almost nothing to do with people being pestered on Facebook and everything to do with economics. Economics that aren't related to the tax spend of each household.

It might not suit your agenda but nobody decides to deploy infrastructure based on trying to annoy hard working tax paying pillars of society such as yourself.
 
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You've got quite a large chip on your shoulder about this judging by your similar response to the other thread. There are no restrictions on who is allowed to dig up the country and install fibre optic cables or copper phone lines (outside of planning regulations). Nobody else wants to play because it is incredibly expensive. You could complain that Virgin Media haven't run a high speed service to this location, they have just as much of an obligation (none).

BT Group are a private sector organisation, the only people they have to answer to is to their shareholders. If an area had enough properties that it would make them money then there would be a fibre cabinet there. If the people who live there want a fibre cabinet and it isn't going to make money then you can pay the difference.

Breaking Openreach off from BT wouldn't remove this obligation to make money for shareholders, so it wouldn't improve anything.
 
*sigh* and getting back to the original question.....

I know of a fairly new development not far from here that were denied fibre when everyone around them was enjoying it. I suspect the reason was similar to yours. The residents soon realised that abusing Openreach was getting them nowhere so they badgered the developer who has now agreed to fund the fix (whatever that is in this case) so the new estate will be getting fibre.

If yours is not a new-development scenario, as I suspect, then I think you should be looking at the PR angle. BT make such a play of aiming to provide high speed broadband for rural areas and yet you are stuffed because you are within spitting distance of the local exchange. Get some media on-side.
 
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