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[Harveybos]

Just checked the BT website.
It give the date of 31st December 2011 for the enabling of the Burley in Wharfedale exchange.
Ilkley and Otley are down for 31st March 2012.

According to a BT engineer I just talked to who lives in Guiseley, they are getting av 39 meg download speeds.....mine has never been above 2!

[catbazza]

Harveybos, on 07 May 2011 - 11:08 AM, said:

Just checked the BT website.
It give the date of 31st December 2011 for the enabling of the Burley in Wharfedale exchange.
Ilkley and Otley are down for 31st March 2012.

According to a BT engineer I just talked to who lives in Guiseley, they are getting av 39 meg download speeds.....mine has never been above 2!

Thats wonderfull news & the team that worked tirelesly deserve a round of applause.

The thing now is that when this Fibre Optics has been installed into the Burley exchange what will it cost to us if anything to get it out to the poles & boxes & then hence to the houses, or will that be done automatically at a further date.

[Mark D]

Could be marginally delayed....

http://www.thinkbroa...-engineers.html

[mronksley]

Harveybos, on 07 May 2011 - 11:08 AM, said:

According to a BT engineer I just talked to who lives in Guiseley, they are getting av 39 meg download speeds.....mine has never been above 2!

I guess that depends on the location etc.


... Posted from my 21meg talk talk connection in Burley.

[spyglass]

Anyone know what the costs will be?

[mronksley]

spyglass, on 05 June 2011 - 10:56 PM, said:

Anyone know what the costs will be?

If they open it up to LLU providers like in other areas, which I presume they would be. Then with talk talk the costs are:
£12.60 line rental
£6.70 - Essentials package (free evening and weekend calls and free ADSL2+ broadband)
£10 - Fibre Optic broadband bolt on.

Not sure on BT's prices, probably on their website.

[mikeg]

This is now further away. Bt does not mention Burley at all and the openreach PDF says 2012.

What is going on?

[Harveybos]

mikeg, on 19 July 2011 - 03:58 PM, said:

This is now further away. Bt does not mention Burley at all and the openreach PDF says 2012.

What is going on?

The latest update from BT, via the iBurley campaign team, is that the planning for the rollout in Burley is now complete. The civil works will commence in October with a planned completion in Feb 2012.

As a direct result of the iBurley campaign, Otley and Ilkley are getting the infrastructure too, and Burley is being fed from Otley... we estimate that this means we got up to £5million of investment by BT into the Wharfe Valley - not bad going!

[mikeg]

That's great news. Thanks for the update.

[Mark D]

The BT Infinity Site - now showing Burley in Wharfedale due for December 2012.... this is getting further away

[Wharfedale]

Mark D, on 26 September 2011 - 06:17 PM, said:

The BT Infinity Site - now showing Burley in Wharfedale due for December 2012.... this is getting further away

I’ll sort it... Leave it with me.

[Wharfedale]

Further to my previous post, I have spoken to the Programme Director @ BT and it appears to be an error with the information from Open Reach. He going to get them to alter it to reflect the correct dates.

[Mark D]

Wharfedale, on 07 October 2011 - 04:18 PM, said:

Further to my previous post, I have spoken to the Programme Director @ BT and it appears to be an error with the information from Open Reach. He going to get them to alter it to reflect the correct dates.

Great news thanks - any ideas on what the correct dates really are?

[Wharfedale]

We should be seeing it available Q1 2012 but I will let you know dates once I have them.

[Wharfedale]

Further to my previous posts... After talking to the Programme Director today it turns out that the Open Reach dates were posted wrongly and work has definitely started. I can also confirm that the deployment will cover over 90% of the exchange foot print (Yea!)

As for Ilkley and Otley... They are lucky to have such good neighbours.... But Burley always does punch above its weight

[Mark D]

Any idea if/when/how we can pre-order?

[Malcolm]

Any idea if/when/how we can pre-order?

Updated details on the progress of the fibre optic installation can now be viewed on the iBurley section of the village website.
Make sure you check it out - it's great news !!

http://www.burley-in.../faq/index.html

(look at "Updates")

[Mark D]

Hi

BT's site still saying exchange won't be ready until June 2012 so I'm desperately hoping your information is better that BT's Malcolm Great work staying close to this!

Also interestingly, over the last couple of weeks I've received two calls from TalkTalk trying to lock me into my current contract for 18 months (with some associated discounts) - which might imply they're getting nervous about BT Infinity's impending arrival and also that they're not planning to piggy back onto the same fibre connection

[weirdmusic]

I think some clarification is required as to what's going to happen in the Burley Exchange Area.

There will in effect be 2 systems in the Burley Exchange area -

1. The existing infrastructure that uses the Burley Exchange. Broadband speeds will remain as you have them at the moment from whichever broadband provider you currently use.

2. The new superfast broadband infrastructure (that by-passes the Burley Exchange & comes via Otley exchange).
People will need to sign up to this infrastructure/service to get the increase in broadband speeds.
The only known provider currently (as of Jan 2012) is BT Infinity.

But Ofcom has ensured that other providers such as TalkTalk, Sky etc will have the opportunity to offer superfast broadband over the new network when it comes on stream.

[MAVAV]

weirdmusic, on 06 January 2012 - 07:53 PM, said:

The only known provider currently (as of Jan 2012) is BT Infinity.

Not strictly correct, Plusnet also offer a fibre service, although as they are also owned by BT it is a bit of a moot point.