The Bradley Stoke Examiner’s campaign aimed at getting faster internet in the town has featured in the regional press.
The Bristol Evening Post covered the story, where we called on Virgin Media to cable the missing streets in the town, on page eight of the Monday edition.
The cable giant’s fibre-optic network was installed in all but a few thousand homes as the town was built over the last 20 years.
But because of Bradley Stoke’s distance from the nearest BT exchanges those homes suffer from slow internet service.
Virgin Media says it will roll out the network to the remaining homes if there is enough interest.
The article feature highlighted the plight of local homeworker John Bradbury.
He said: “With the Government saying they want to roll out high-speed broadband across the country, I think Virgin, or in my case BT, need to pull their fingers out.
“I am online six, seven, eight hours a day and I could do my job a lot faster if I had faster broadband.”
All you need to do to help us ensure Virgin Media completes its broadband roll-out in Bradley Stoke is e-mail cablemystreet@virginmedia.co.uk
4 responses so far ↓
1 Bob // Jun 2, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Lets hope a few people from the housing development around esporta in Stoke Gifford sign up, we are getting approx 1mbps which is considerably less in the evenings
2 Craig // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:27 pm
This could be a bit of good news – BT are making use of the first stage of their network upgrade to rollout ADSL2+ to their subscribers – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/bt_adsl2/
Then again we are really far away from the exchange. handy (also depressing) graph here – http://freeola.com/adsl2-21cn-rollout/
Chris – sorry if I shouldn’t be posting links in comments!
3 Chris (editor) // Jun 3, 2009 at 9:59 pm
No probs Craig – useful info.
For info, both Filton and Almondsbury have now been enabled for BT’s WBC service which you can currently only get on BT Broadband and Entanet. It does give a modest speed boost – I went up from 1.7 to 2.3 … although that can be pretty variable …
4 Craig // Jun 6, 2009 at 5:57 pm
I take back (some) of my scepticism. BT have moved us across to ADSL2+, quadrupling our connection to 2Mbps!
Very happy indeed.
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