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**Chris** · 10-04-2020, 13:19

Yep. I'm resisting spending money on that sort of thing at the moment though. We are in one of the rural areas that qualifies for extra government support in Scotland's attempt to achieve 100% superfast broadband coverage by the end of next year. They have trialled 4g solutions, but as the signal is so patchy it can't be deployed community wide. It works in one location but not in others, and in few of the places it does work, is it fast enough to satisfy the requirements of 'super fast'.

There is a fibre upgrade going on at the exchange right now, but we're not scheduled to get it because this end of the exchange area is all served by EO lines and they're shy of erecting new cabs for some reason (goodness knows why, it's not like they're facing complex wayleave issues, or having to persuade the council to let them occupy busy pavements - everything around here is owned by the Forestry Commission, and the planning authority is the national park, which is so pro-rural business and connectivity that it tends to err on the side of granting planning permission even on occasions when it probably shouldn't).

Nevertheless, the fibre is pole mounted heading out of the village where the exchange is located and it gets within about 2 miles of here, so with the failure of the community 4g trial I'm holding out for the hope they will eventually pay for FTTP, to bring the pole-mounted fibre the rest of the way to our door.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,928	Re: How does 4G LTE manage download and upload speeds? Yep. I'm resisting spending money on that sort of thing at the moment though. We are in one of the rural areas that qualifies for extra government support in Scotland's attempt to achieve 100% superfast broadband coverage by the end of next year. They have trialled 4g solutions, but as the signal is so patchy it can't be deployed community wide. It works in one location but not in others, and in few of the places it does work, is it fast enough to satisfy the requirements of 'super fast'. There is a fibre upgrade going on at the exchange right now, but we're not scheduled to get it because this end of the exchange area is all served by EO lines and they're shy of erecting new cabs for some reason (goodness knows why, it's not like they're facing complex wayleave issues, or having to persuade the council to let them occupy busy pavements - everything around here is owned by the Forestry Commission, and the planning authority is the national park, which is so pro-rural business and connectivity that it tends to err on the side of granting planning permission even on occasions when it probably shouldn't). Nevertheless, the fibre is pole mounted heading out of the village where the exchange is located and it gets within about 2 miles of here, so with the failure of the community 4g trial I'm holding out for the hope they will eventually pay for FTTP, to bring the pole-mounted fibre the rest of the way to our door. ---------- Post added at 13:19 ---------- Previous post was at 11:42 ---------- (edited) Last edited by Chris; 10-04-2020 at 13:19.