Comments on: Ofcom to research rural and urban broadband divide http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/ofcom-announce-research-that-will-show-rural-and-urban-broadband-divide/ A blog about rural life in the UK, our countryside and my country life. It's all here, farming, gardening, wildlife, animals and rural dating. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:44:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/ofcom-announce-research-that-will-show-rural-and-urban-broadband-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-2399 Sally Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:11:12 +0000 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=140#comment-2399 Hi Signal Providers I've removed your company name and link but was wondering why you bother spamming blogs? I usually just delete spam but I would love someone to explain to me why you spend your time doing it? Wouldn't it be simpler to leave a genuine comment and get a link back??!! Silly people Hi Signal Providers

I’ve removed your company name and link but was wondering why you bother spamming blogs? I usually just delete spam but I would love someone to explain to me why you spend your time doing it? Wouldn’t it be simpler to leave a genuine comment and get a link back??!!

Silly people

]]> By: Signal Providers http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/ofcom-announce-research-that-will-show-rural-and-urban-broadband-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-2398 Signal Providers Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:54:26 +0000 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=140#comment-2398 I love what you guys are always up too. Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the great works guys I've added you guys to my blogroll, Cheers. I love what you guys are always up too. Such clever work and reporting! Keep up the great works guys I’ve added you guys to my blogroll, Cheers.

]]> By: Sally http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/ofcom-announce-research-that-will-show-rural-and-urban-broadband-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-365 Sally Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:45:53 +0000 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=140#comment-365 Sorry to hear about your frustrations Maggie, it's a really bad show and not set to improve very much for rural areas I'm afraid. I have friends with a rural business and they have to phone their daughter in a city and get her to run their site and pass orders back and forward every night ... how on earth can any business succeed that way .... arrgghhh my blood pressure is up too now. Sorry to hear about your frustrations Maggie, it’s a really bad show and not set to improve very much for rural areas I’m afraid. I have friends with a rural business and they have to phone their daughter in a city and get her to run their site and pass orders back and forward every night … how on earth can any business succeed that way …. arrgghhh my blood pressure is up too now.

]]> By: Maggie@Wheatland farm eco lodges and cottage, Devon http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/ofcom-announce-research-that-will-show-rural-and-urban-broadband-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-350 Maggie@Wheatland farm eco lodges and cottage, Devon Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:24:27 +0000 http://www.country-couples.co.uk/blog/?p=140#comment-350 Rural broadband - I can feel my blood pressure going up already. Our business also relies heavily on broadband for an online booking system, and a sorry saga it has been. From telling us before we moved in that we'd be live in 4 days it went on and on for over a year with one excuse after another (talk talk) and hours on the phone to people in India, continual promises etc until eventually someone finally confirmed there simply weren't enough lines down the road and it wasn't just a question of 'the server being updated' or 'dax on the line' etc... Every week we'd put the web updates on a USB pen and take them to the village hall free broad band night. We even bought a wireless bridge and tried connecting to a neighbour half a mile away. Eventually, by sheer good fortune, the cables were due for an upgrade. Even then our neighbours almost got the connection instead of us. So what about everyone else who wasn't so lucky?? Complete cockup from start to finish. I could go on more, but I'd better not! Rural broadband – I can feel my blood pressure going up already. Our business also relies heavily on broadband for an online booking system, and a sorry saga it has been.

From telling us before we moved in that we’d be live in 4 days it went on and on for over a year with one excuse after another (talk talk) and hours on the phone to people in India, continual promises etc until eventually someone finally confirmed there simply weren’t enough lines down the road and it wasn’t just a question of ‘the server being updated’ or ‘dax on the line’ etc… Every week we’d put the web updates on a USB pen and take them to the village hall free broad band night. We even bought a wireless bridge and tried connecting to a neighbour half a mile away. Eventually, by sheer good fortune, the cables were due for an upgrade. Even then our neighbours almost got the connection instead of us.

So what about everyone else who wasn’t so lucky??

Complete cockup from start to finish. I could go on more, but I’d better not!

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