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Technical Help & Discussion => Broadband, Networking, PC Security, Internet & ISPs => Topic started by: Simon on November 30, 2009, 20:16

Title: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Simon on November 30, 2009, 20:16

British Telecom (BT) has admitted its chairman is the only person in a village on the Oxfordshire-Buckinghamshire border with broadband.

Other people in Hambleden were told they could not have broadband because of the distance to the exchange.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8386224.stm

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Clive on November 30, 2009, 22:56

My brother-in-law lives in Noke, Oxford and cannot get broadband.

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Simon on November 30, 2009, 23:04

That's because he's not the BT chairman.  :)

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Clive on November 30, 2009, 23:05

 ;D

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Simon on November 30, 2009, 23:07

Hard to believe that a major town such as Oxford has such limited connectivity, though.  Unless the villages are far out and remote.  :dunno:

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Clive on November 30, 2009, 23:12

He's always moaning about it.  I suppose Noke is pretty remote but its not the Highlands of Scotland!

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Simon on November 30, 2009, 23:27

At least he won't have to pay the Broadband Tax.  ;)

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: sam on December 01, 2009, 00:13

stupid isn't it - I wonder how these people cope on the bbc website without broadband... nothing must work.

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Simon on December 01, 2009, 07:51

True.

Title: Re: BT boss has only broadband home
Post by: Rik on December 01, 2009, 09:36

Quote from: Simon on November 30, 2009, 23:27

At least he won't have to pay the Broadband Tax.  ;)

He will if he has a phone.