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Duncan Robertson

What about EO lines?

I live in rural Aberdeenshire and am connected to the local exchange via an EO line. Whilst I currently enjoy 18Mb/s Down and 1.5Mb/s Up, I would like a higher upload speed so that I can keep my data out of the cloud and enhance my current behind-the-tv RPi server setup.

I have tried in vain to find out what is being done to fibre-enable EO lines. The exchange is fibre-enabled and most of the village has fibre, apart from us poor sods connected via an EO line. Surely it can't be that difficult?!?!

For us rural types, mobile such as 4G is out of the question; 3G is a luxury and dependent on where you are in the village or valley.

I am sure that EO lines also affect some in urban settings as well.

Is the business model not there?

Is it technically challenging?

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