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Cornwall (where I live) got trumpeted as a target for superfast broadband. As far as I can tell, it's mostly a marketing exercise. The town I live in (~25k peop
by colinramsay 11y ago
Cornwall (where I live) got trumpeted as a target for superfast broadband. As far as I can tell, it's mostly a marketing exercise. The town I live in (~25k people) has loads of green boxes with the livery and I see vans quite often but in the five years I've live here (four different properties), I've never been able to get superfast. I know precisely one person who has it and describes it as "rubbish".
I'm sure there's people that it's working out wonderfully for but I've never found them.
Some kind of shake up is needed in the industry, similar to when cable came in around 2000(?).
- rossriley 11y agoYes it's interesting. Fellow Cornwall resident here and it's the same, every check on the site says that my area is in consultation. I moved down from Worcestershire last year, only a few miles outside of Worcester but also very slightly rural and exactly the same happened there. What I guess is happening is they connect up the very centre of large towns/cities and then don't really have any intention of providing fast broadband to the more rural areas, probably because it's not economical.
- colinramsay 11y agoI actually think it might be somewhat the opposite; there's less messy infrastructure in smaller places and so they're perhaps more likely to get it. I know that a few little places outside of Truro got it, for example.
- petercooper 11y agoUp here in Lincolnshire it actually worked out. I live in a town of 18K people, the local council kicked in 300K from a grant they got, the fibre cabinets all sprung up, and I have superfast at home. What is ridiculous, though, is the industrial estate never did, so my entire office building was sharing a single DSL line until we got a point to point wireless setup.
- phireal 11y agoDevon village (~400 people) here. We got fibre last year.