That'll be a long fibre cable.
BT gets postcode knickers in twist, plants Shoreditch on Mount Everest
A website set up by BT to help its customers track the progress of when their local telephone exchange will be souped up with superfast fibre broadband goodness is currently displaying a dodgy bug in the postcode checker. Anyone typing in N1, which is the postcode for Islington, north London, will instead be greeted with a map …
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Friday 14th September 2012 12:52 GMT LinkOfHyrule
Re: Failing it's GCSE geography?
Please don't knock geography it is a wonderful subject at school and college, I loved it - it seems to be a soft target for jokes a lot of the time, take the piss out of French instead, a totally useless subject!
As for the topic at hand, I have had this shit from Google maps myself recently - taking me to weird places when entering partial postcodes. As for solving this issue, they need a check box that let's you toggle on or off common sense, that should work!
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Friday 14th September 2012 13:11 GMT Ru
Re: I've noticed quite a few mapping tools don't equate the whole of the world with London
Yes, London ain't the world. But when you're a British company trying to provide useful information to British customers, maybe you should use a slightly less inclusive and cosmopolitan search system, hmm?
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Monday 17th September 2012 05:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
No you cannot
The cost estimate for Broadband Britain and the reason why subsidies are needed is based on these calculations. Fiber to the top of Mt Everest is will require special H&S assessment for the Openreach engineers involved and prolonged union negotiations on overtime and danger pay. So rather unsurprisingly we are asking the government to underwrite such expensive endeavors as they are key to the future of our great country.
You just spoiled that bonanza and you expect to be hired?
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Friday 14th September 2012 12:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Bigger problem?
Yesterday the Amazon.uk 'find a delivery point' functionlaity at checkout was FUBAR'd with a pickup point with a Reading adddress being displayed as near Leeds. I was unable to get it to find any near me at all. (And there are some because I checked a week or two back when el Reg ran a story about the service)
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Friday 14th September 2012 13:23 GMT Fuzz
not just postcodes that are the problem
The other problem with this map is that even if you make it work and show where you live. All it tells you is the status at the surrounding exchanges, it doesn't actually tell you which of these exchanges provides your telephone line.
If I type my postcode I see that all the surrounding exchanges are enabled and accepting orders bar one which has no current plans, I wonder which exchange is mine?
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Friday 14th September 2012 13:33 GMT Anonymous Coward
No, the main problem...
....Is that even though (re fast fibre broadband being available) it says "accepting orders" they are not actually "accepting orders" and, according to BT I have to "register my interest" and according to Zen I have to wait until 30 September.
30 September is not so far away, but the previously promised date was 30 June, so I'm only half optimistic.
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Friday 14th September 2012 14:06 GMT StephenD
To be fair...
...the site does say to "Enter your full postcode". It should deal more elegantly with those who fail to follow instructions and enter "N1" and the like, but garbage in, garbage out, and all that.
What a surprise - the 13 exchanges around me are all described as "Not currently in rollout plans".
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