Introduction

The purpose of this web site is to introduce residents to ADSL/Broadband and if sufficient interest can be established to persuade British Telecom to upgrade the Wroxton St Mary Exchange to this always on, high speed technology.

Wroxton St Mary Telephone Exchange

The exchange covers the Oxfordshire villages of Hanwell, Horley, Wroxton, Balscote, North Newington, Drayton and the Warwickshire village of Shotteswell with phone number commencing 01295 73

BROADBAND HAS ARRIVED

• 12 August 2004

  • I believe the first residents of Wroxton St Mary Exchange area now have BT ADSL

  • 3 Hanwell Court, however has had its order for 1 mb service accepted and cancelled at least twice by BT Wholesale.

  • It would appear I have the wrong kind of ISDN for a normal migration to ADSL. I have an old (c1996) ISDN 2 service with Multi-Subscriber Numbering. The way this was enabled in 1996 was by using a set of DDI numbers. This apparently comes up on the BT Deployment database as "Featureline" this is totally incorrect but makes it difficult for a transfer to take place.

  • Because of my campaign contacts I have raised this problem with numerous people at BT and the Chairman's office is now dealing with it.

  • I will let you know how I get on. If anyone else has an ISDN circuit with numbers starting 01295 7319xx please let me know how you get on.

• 21 July 2004

  • There will be a public meeting in Hanwell Village Hall on Wednesday 28th at 7:00pm, Oxfordshire Rural Broadband will give a presentation about how to get and what you can do with broadband ready for the 4 August RFS date.

  • ISP's are taking orders but they won't be confirmed until the 4th, and will probably be enabled about the 8th

  • See the new FAQ pages.

• 25 March 2004

  • BT ADSL will be coming to Wroxton on 4 August 2004, watch this space for updates.

• 2 March 2004

  • We've Triggered!

  • What next - BT do a review and see that we haven't entered M Mouse too many times, then they review the exchange from a technical point of view and give us a Ready For Service date, once we have the date we can order broadband from whomever we like. These dates currently run from June to December for recently triggered exchanges. This review can take three weeks.

  • I will update the pages on the website to explain the process over the next few days

  • Thanks to:

    Balscote's Freddie Meynell and  Owen Stannier.

    Hanwell's Maureen Collyer, Julian Oakley, Stewart Maxwell,
    Christopher Payton, Debbie Kukainis, Joe Shortt

    Who spent the weekend knocking on doors enabling us to reach the trigger this afternoon

  • "Not Spots"

    If you find that when you try to order ADSL that BT say you are too far from the exchange, more than 6 km per the cable run, then please let me know, with my Oxfordshire Broadband hat on I have solutions for these areas.

• 19 February 2004

  • There will be a public meeting in Hanwell Village Hall on 26th February 2004 to discuss how we can get the final 70 or so registrations.

• 15 February 2004

  • Newsletter asking if you guys want a public meeting see here

  • ORB Have funding for the Wychwood forest see here!

• 24 January 2004

  • Newsletter sent out asking for you to pester your neighbours see here

• 19 December 2003

  • See the February edition of Personal Computer World, page 93

  • Over Christmas could you ask your neighbours if they have registered their interest, if they haven't use this form to collect the details and drop them round to 3 Hanwell Court, or email me and I will come and collect.

• 17 November 2003

  • WE HAVE A TRIGGER OF 300!!!!!!!

  • The above graph will update sometime during the day, the BT database is taking time to course its way through the internet, they announced 2,300 triggers today, local BT press release here.

    

  • Now we need you to cajole your neighbours, register all your BT phone lines, they now accept them all, they didn't previously, either fill in my registration page or alternative complete the BTOpenworld webpage, remember this doesn't tie you to BT in any way.

  • The status of Oxfordshire's and surrounding areas exchanges as of 18 November is here.

• Archived news moved to here

Help Needed

• We need help printing and distributing leaflets in each village to publicise the campaign.

Who am I

I am Paul Tate a Chartered Accountant and Interim IT Manager  from Hanwell who wants Broadband at home, I can be contacted via email (adsl@broadband4wroxton.org.uk) or phone (01295 731910)