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In the UK we've got two levels: the ISPs (who don't put cable or fibre in the ground) and the network (who don't provide ISP services but do maintain the cables
by DanBC 6y ago
In the UK we've got two levels: the ISPs (who don't put cable or fibre in the ground) and the network (who don't provide ISP services but do maintain the cables / fibre).
In this example customers would have been calling their ISP to complain, and having to go through the layers of escalation.
Also, it's a pretty remote location. Lots of rural areas in the UK have terrible Internet. I think this is the area in Google maps.
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Aberhosan,+Machynlleth+SY20+8SE/@52.5619485,-3.7480592,1662m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x486f8eeda5b893cb:0x41cbaf81929712bd!8m2!3d52.561962!4d-3.761393 https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Aberhosan,+Machynlleth+S...
- jayflux 6y ago> In the UK we've got two levels: the ISPs (who don't put cable or fibre in the ground) and the network (who don't provide ISP services but do maintain the cables / fibre). Mostly true, I believe Virgin put their own cables in the ground, and younger companies like hyperoptic.
- lozf 6y agoMore or less, but Virgin inherited most of their legacy fibre from the likes of Telewest, NTL / Cable & Wireess, Vidoetron, & Cable London. These days the Virgin name is just about brand recognition.
- jayflux 6y agoI’m not sure what your point is? They still manage their own infrastructure regardless what their company name is. They don’t use another supplier like openreach for their infra which was my point.
- mpclark 6y agoIt's only a couple of miles down the road from Staylittle, "the village cut off from the web": https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40108145 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40108145 Either broadband is truly awful out that way (probably this, TBH) or one of the local Openreach engineers is related to a BBC news reporter...