A UK village has recently launched its own network after been rejected for super fast broadband UK by BT, Rutland Telecom which is a scheme set up by villagers and an ICT firm that were fed up with slow broadband speeds raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super fast service with speeds of up to 40Mbps been offered.
managing director of Rutland Telecom Dr David Lewis, said “We found that any company could do, on a smaller scale, what Carphone Warehouse has done and take over BT’s network,” they asked Openreach, part of BT that has responsibility for the UK’s telephone network, to supply fibre-optic cable to a street cabinet in the village.
Although they found it a slow progress which required intervention of Ofcom, two years later its up and running with 50 customers, who no longer need to rely on slow speeds or mobile broadband.
Rutland Telecom director Mark Melluish said, “For the first time in UK telecommunications history the telephone lines of customers are completely cut off from the local BT exchange.”