(1) Can I suggest that we continue discussion of Broadband's imminent arrival (or lack thereof) to
this thread, "Still waiting for London Broadband".
The reason being that the issue is London-wide. Indeed the issue of lack of broadband is wider than that, but the new thread can focus on London.
(I was critised when I tried to move the discussion from
this old NTHW.com thread, "Waiting for London Broadband" (which will shortly be deleted due to NTHW.com changes), to this forum's
"BB in South London this year?" thread as the issue is not merely one south of the river. This new thread addresses that problem.)
Also this thread is veering wildly off-topic! On which note I shall say this...
(2) dieselking- Your mate might be living in a place called Bromley-by-Bow, which is in the east end of London.
However (confusingly) Bromley (the place), to the southeast of London, has a Kent postal address, but is within Greater London and is in the London Borough of Bromley. It is not within the boundaries of Kent County Council.
Bromley (the place) is obviously within the London Borough of Bromley.
Many places on the periphery of Greater London are in a sitiation similar to this, both being a part of (Greater) London and also notionally a part of an adjacent county (at least in a postal address sense). Bromley is regarded a town in it's own right, even though there are no green fields that seperate it from the sprawl of London. (Thats not to say that there's no green field though, as any Londoner will tell you there are plenty of significant open spaces, woods and parks in London.)
That answer probably confuses things more than it clears them up though!
