[ILUG] [OT] Smart Telecom Broadband offer?

[Thomas Bridge]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 05:35:31PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> On Thursday 24 February 2005 16:16, Thomas Bridge wrote:
 
> > I'm sorry to have to say this - but diddums.   DSL has been widely
> > available in metropolitan areas of the UK for at least five years now, and
> > there are still a large number of rural locations which don't have it yet. 
 
> I read recently that 99% of BT subscribers can now get DSL
> (or maybe it said they would be able to get it sometime this year).
 
> It claimed BT had some new technique which allowed many
> previously too far from the exchange to get connected.

The current figure is I think 97%.   Which still leaves 3%.

And we're not talking villages of Williamses in the mountains -
we're talking towns of a few thousand people in Bedfordshire 
and Cambridgeshire.    

Thomas