News - Lyddington launches its own super-fast broadband network
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Residents of a rural UK village unable to get high-speed internet from other providers have launched their own fibre-based broadband service.
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Well done to them thats awesome, i hope this example catches on and more rural communities do the same!
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It's surprising that BT didn't ever consider the idea themselves, after all many small villages are inhabited by wealthy professionals who want a quieter place to live.
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Absolutely brilliant. As someone who lives in the sticks this is quite inspiring (and I live with very little hope for this country at present!)
Re: News - Lyddington launches its own super-fast broadband network
Awesome.
Seems to be the way to go if you're out in the sticks.
Surprised at the reasonable pricing too. lol.
Re: News - Lyddington launches its own super-fast broadband network
£37000 for a whole village, not bad... that's a few hundred quid each I suppose, did the people who put up that £37k become shareholders in Rutland Telecom - if so then even better!
Local co-ops like this seem to be a good way to persuade BT to link them up.
Re: News - Lyddington launches its own super-fast broadband network
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Lucio
It's surprising that BT didn't ever consider the idea themselves, after all many small villages are inhabited by wealthy professionals who want a quieter place to live.
I don't know, but I would guess BT would be expected (either by Ofcom or by customers) to offer the same prices nationwide, even if they had made a special effort & incurred costs to improve things in a specific location.
(& of course BT is a juggernaut, and it's difficult to apply themselves to sensible small scale projects like this...)
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Shows to me how high the costs of wiring up the rural peeps are.
10GB standard usage at a very high price, no doubt its still BT's copper to the home so a further £10 per month is needed, before long its £100 pcm for what Be and the like charge.
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Heard this bloke interviewed on R4 this morning. The high charges are necessary to get the ROI. Local investors are getting 10% on their money !
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Phage
Heard this bloke interviewed on R4 this morning. The high charges are necessary to get the ROI. Local investors are getting 10% on their money !
For how long? Seems like a reasonable return for a business enterprise to be able to recoup it's costs but offer a very good service. No one seems to mind paying 18 - 20% on their credit cards :O_o1:
Also Rutland being the richest county in the UK, and I believe the county with the highest average house cost so I'm pretty certain that there are some schrewed operators living there.
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TheAnimus
Shows to me how high the costs of wiring up the rural peeps are.
10GB standard usage at a very high price, no doubt its still BT's copper to the home so a further £10 per month is needed, before long its £100 pcm for what Be and the like charge.
Doesn't seem that way from my reading of the Hexus article, looks like £40pcm for similar to what BE offer at £18pcm + do you still need to pay the BT £12pcm? (admittedly usage is a little lower at the level of the value package but not at the lower speed)
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Rutland Telecom's service is currently offered at a rate of £30 per month including line rental, through which users get a free router, 24Mbps download speeds and a 10GB usage allowance. An extra 50GB allowance can be purchased at an additional cost of £10 per month, whilst speeds can be doubled to up to 48Mbps for an extra £20.
Definately good news for us living in the sticks.
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ah line rental my bad, thats not *too* bad, but when you look at the base package from Be costing £7.50 is better than a 10GB useage.
I use quite a lot, a lot of which is probably just steam!