Rural Fibre Broadband

I originally had a page that directed visitors to my page on County Broadband to a page on what Social Media's part plays in the promotion of a business or product. This was confusing and didn't help!

In an expansion of my thoughts regarding the two year contract I have concluded that County Broadband have taken the governments money to build the infrastructure and are now maximising their profits as a consequence that there is no competition in rural areas.

I have written an email to County Broadband asking them to explain themselves. Particularly what happens if I break the contract. They have yet to reply and phone calls do not get returned.

I'm sure that there has been much said about them on Social Media and I would guess that has not been favourable.

The Rural Dilemma

Many of the locations that have had Full Fibre installed are in locations where they cannot receive an ADSL service from BT. Previously they were served bu a point-to-point radio service from County Broadband. This is now too costly for them to maintain. For all I know it have been closed down.

Router Update

There is also something suspicious with the fact that there is an up-coming update to the router "firmware"

CBB say:

.....and

I guess you could tune your router off at night!

Reading the User Manual for the router the firmware update could affect VOIP services. We use Voice Over IP telephone and it is not the solution offered by County. Changes may affect of our use of Vonage VOIP. It may mean that our Vonage box will cease to work and the router and service only work with the County Broadband telephone service.

Seeing as the copper telephone service is going to be shut down by 2025 and no longer mantained by BT/Openreach, perhaps CBB are trying this a leverage?