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Wireless Wales

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the too-late-for-my-family dept.

phich65 writes "People could soon be sending e-mail from the hillsides, roadsides and rooftops of the south Wales valleys with the expansion of Europe's densest wireless internet network. See this BBC story for details."

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  1. finally! by Noodlenose · · Score: 4, Funny
    This can only mean one thing:

    Wales will be the proud location of the first portable web-server on a sheep. You could even design a sheep cam and check were your flock is heading or which bastard is shagging your herd!

    cool!

  2. Wireless Wales....? by seamustheshark · · Score: 4, Informative

    The problem they have in Wales (and indeed, most of the UK outside the 'big' cities) is that the major Telecoms provider, British Telecom, who basically own all the local telephone exchanges, will not upgrade them for broadband until there is a certain "target level of demand" (i.e. until it will pay them hansomely to do so).

    Of course, the rub is, for rural exchanges (like where *I* live) they won't tell you what the target is.....

    Therefore, they can alter the 'majic' target at will, so that rural communities will almost certainly never get wired-broadband, hence the move to wireless networks - not only in Wales, but elsewhere in the UK, as it is seen as the only economic way to get better than a POTS dial-up (and don't even ask me about Satellite access in rural UK - uk£1,200 setup and uk£99/month? No thanks!!!)

    --
    -- Seamus
    1. Re:Wireless Wales....? by Tony+Hoyle · · Score: 4, Informative

      The targets are well known. BT even publish information about how well your local exchange is doing.

      See http://www.adslguide.org.uk/availability/btprereg. asp?order=reg
      for the current 'league table'.

  3. Re:Wales? c'mon. by Gordonjcp · · Score: 4, Informative
    Close... Actually, England and Scotland are seperate countries. Scotland has a completely different legal and school system, susbstantially different financial system, although it shares the same money, and has a more-or-less seperate government. Wales has a degree of governmental independence (not quite so much as Scotland, but nearly so), and is considered a seperate country. These make up Great Britain.

    Then you add in Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and all the Channel Islands, and you've got the United Kingdom.

    Please don't mention Sealand or Rockall, they're just a pain in the arse.