> By coincidence Oftel just today released statistics today on
> the level of broadband take up by residential consumers.
>
Hmmm, lies, damnable lies and...
> The headline figures are that the UK now has over 1.4 million
> broadband users, and that one in ten of UK homes with
Of course that means 9 in 10 don't.
> Internet access use broadband services. It doesn't say how
> many of these are in East Lothian though!
Probably none, though there's a possibility in some areas of Musselburgh, I believe. Everywhere else - forget it. As you may know the way BT work this is to set a "trigger" level for an exchange for the number of users to express an interest. When the level is reached, and if 3/4 of these commit to the service, they _may_ proceed with enabling the exchange. On the other hand they may not. Or they may just up the number required (I'm told this happened to a town in the Borders where they had a campaign, reached the trigger level and BT promptly raised the number required).
For Dunbar the trigger level is 400. That's about 25% of households. Or more than half of those that have any kind of internet access. Currently I am one of just over 100 (which is an improvement, at one point six months ago I was one of 14).
Best wishes
Pete
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Peter M Gray
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