RE: Good ADSL News at last...

["John McManus" <john.mcmanus@xxxxxxx>]

Tele2 (broadband over radio) seemed to have a good model... get 100
people
to agree they wanted the service within a 15km radius, and Tele2 would
establish the base station etc.  Once you (as the local champion) had
got
100 people, you contacted the CEO directly.

However, as a business model, I guess it didn't work so well.  Tele2
are now
pulling out of the residential market.

Hopefully the new BT announcement will allow us to drum up local
support.

http://www.groupbt.com/Mediacentre/Archivenewsreleases/2002/nr0227.htm

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 18 June 2002 16:14
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Good ADSL News at last...


> Good news and common sense prevail *AT LAST* on Broadband
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/22/25769.html

" It will also publish the threshold at which the level of demand
makes
individual exchanges commercially viable for broadband upgrade"

No more need to guess then :)

I'm afraid this is still little comfort to me on a small rural exchange
though, unless I can persuad the local sheep they need BB :(

M.





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