BT Race To Infinity

[Dialyser]

Just saw this in todays Groat. Basically it is a race to select the next five postcodes who will then get superfast broadband installed within the next year.
As I understand it works on the percentage of votes for your population (which in theory could give us an advantage) but you must reach a minimum of 1000 votes. It only takes a couple of minutes to vote and who knows with enough support we might get lucky:Razz

http://www.racetoinfinity.bt.com/home

[Kodiak]

Yes it has been discussed here and many orgers have voted on this site, here is a link to the Thread :-

http://forum.caithness.org/showthread.php?t=123510&highlight=Vote+Thurso

[ealf2000]

I have just voted and only 161 people have voted so far.
we need much more people to vote

[Chrisf1961]

Just voted

[beetlecrusher]

BT can't even provide me with basic broadband so I'm not holding my breath for "superfast" broadband!

[RecQuery]

BT can't even provide me with basic broadband so I'm not holding my breath for "superfast" broadband!

The problem is superfast is undefined. They could say it means anything, right now they're saying it means ADSL2 which is already pretty widespread, just not up here.

HIE/The Highlands got about 20 Million for a trial rollout. It's perhaps cynical but I'm going to guess the majority of it gets spread round Inverness or Orkney.

[cja275]

Just voted, total stands at 317!

[orkneycadian]

It's perhaps cynical but I'm going to guess the majority of it gets spread round Inverness or Orkney.

Sounds like a good plan! :lol:

[coreyjay]

ive voted and im the 29th in the castletown exchange ill have no hope at all lol

[RecQuery]

They need 1000 to register to make it worth their while. I notice the Wick exchange had somewhere in the region of 4000 broaband connections and that Thurso had similar numbers so we have the users need if we can get them to register.