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27/03/04 - Barrow upon Humber hit its 400 trigger last night (26/03/04) Date for Service will be released in about 4 to 5 weeks.

18/03/04 - Scartho now has a Ready For Service date and it's the 7th July 2004 which means there is to go till then.

Note: you can Pre Order for your new Broadband connection via an ISP of your own choice, you do not Have to order from the one you pre registerred with, to get broadband put into the exchange. Shop around for the best deal out there.

19/02/04 - AUSTIN MITCHELL MP FOR GREAT GRIMSBY lends his support to the Campaign with the following quote: "Broadband is the mark of modernity. Any community which wants to be plugged into the twenty first century needs it to speed communications, commerce, business and education. We've planted the tree in Grimsby. Now let us all benefit from its fruits".

12/02/03 - Scartho hit its target - At 8pm today Scartho hits its trigger

24/12/03 - North Thoresby has just been given a date for going live and its the 21st April 2004 and there is to go till then. Merry Christmas to that exchange, lets hope the others join them soon.

01/12/03 - North Thoresby hits it's trigger of 200 - BT will now review all the registrations for North Thoresby and will issue a "Ready for service date" in the next couple of weeks, if the registrations are valid.

17/11/03 - New triggers announced for all our exchanges, see Exchanges for the update to those exchanges without triggers in the past.

15/11/03 - Added Killingholme to the exchange list, as we did not know it was there, this was due to false information given, now sitting at pre registrations. Sorry for those in Killingholme for missing you all out.

18/09/03 - Loads of visits today. Following a press release on the below mentioned news, this site has had a massive 2000+ hits today, many thanks for your mails of congrats and best wishes, keep those votes coming in to get all the exchanges in this area enabled.

12/09/03 - Broadband4grimsby site wins a national award. This site was chosen as the UK's Broadband Britain Challenge national winner for campaigning, on Friday 12th September 2003 by raising awareness of broadband and also campaigning for the NE Lincs area which has now a potential 40,000 connections with a staggering 100,000 in total when all the other exchanges are enabled in the area. The award was presented at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London, see Broadband Britain Challenge for further information.

20/07/03 - Win an XBox Console from BTWholesale or a Fujitsu Modem pack from Eclipse, just register on the front page and you stand a chance of winning it, Simple really, honest (If you have already registered via this site, you are already in for a chance of winning one of these superb prizes) The draw will take place on the day that the Scartho exchange is enabled for Broadband, so get registering below, by clicking on the link and filling in your details and help get Broadband in North East Lincolnshire. Note this only applies to residents on the exchanges mentioned on this site.

17/07/03 - News that this site has attracted two very good prizes for a draw from all pre registered names via the pre registered form on the front page. Details of the prizes will be announced soon.

19/06/03 - Broadband South Bank is an initiative ran by Yorkshire Forward in conjunction with Business Link Humber, BT and other service providers. The aim of the project is to bring broadband to all parts of Humberside where there is proven demand, and assist local businesses to make the most of it.

The BT exchanges in Grimsby, Cleethorpes and Barton on Humber will have ADSL available from August 2003. Which will benefit 39,000 homes and 4,000 businesses.

The initiative goes a lot further for business users subscribing through the scheme, they could benefit from up to£300 towards a year's service costs. Additionally there is £200,000 of European funding to be used to inform potential broadband users in the North and North East areas of Lincolnshire of the benefits, and provide post install training/support. Of interest to other areas of the UK looking into schemes like this, analyse of the business benefits is planned for the end of the first year of the scheme.

If you are a business in the area then contact Business Link Humber on 0845 124333 for further information.

09/06/03 - BT Reduces all triggered exchanges by 50 - This means Grimsby moves onto the Build phase and the ready for Service date will be announced around the 20th of June, watch this space.

07/06/03 - EXTENDING THE REACH OF ADSL
(BT News Release NR0311, 27 March 2003)
BT Wholesale is testing the provision of ADSL broadband services over slightly greater distances from the exchange than at present. The distance restriction on 512 k bit/s ADSL coverage comes about because of the reduction in the strength of the signal carried due to electrical resistance in the cables. BT's research has now shown that a good quality service can still be provided when relaxing the limits on this loss in signal strength from 55dB to 60dB. This is roughly equivalent to extending the reach of broadband from 5.5km from an exchange to about 6km, bringing two thirds of those customers (about 600,000 households) currently out of reach into the coverage area. This will mean more than 97 per cent of those connected to ADSL enabled exchanges will be within reach. The proposed launch will be in June, subject to final trials.

This has now come online and should be a huge benefit to outreach places like Laceby, try your phone number in the online checker here to see if you are now eligible.

02/06/03 - New Website link added for North Lincolnshire - See links page for further information

23/05/03 - BT Wholesale has released a date for when the ADSL Exchange Activate scheme will become a live product, it is July 21st 2003. ADSL Exchange Activate is a method whereby small exchanges will be able to get ADSL. It relies on a sponsor subsidising the ADSL charges for three years, and buying capacity in blocks of thirty users. - ADSLGuide.org.uk

01/05/03 - BT's Midband falls short of early promises - BT's interim solution for those stranded by the broadband divide will cost as much as ADSL but only offer a fraction of the speed - news.zdnet.co.uk

25/04/03 - Scartho hits the 150 mark

16/04/03 - Healing breaks the 100 mark

10/04/03 - Barton goes past the 200 mark- Barton has gone past the 200 mark and also Waltham & Humberston breaks the 100 mark, well done all, keep those votes coming in

31/03/03 - Barton gets a 450 trigger - BT announced today that Barton is to get a 450 trigger

30/03/03 - NTL 128K price hike confirmed - NTL has confirmed that the price of its 128Kbps 'broadband' service will increase to £17.99 a month from May 1. TheRegister

25/03/03 - Barton to get a trigger - BT have announced that Barton will be getting a trigger for pre registrations at the end of the month

13/03/03 - Waltham goes past the 100 mark - Well done, keep those votes coming in

11/02/03 - Win an Intel Celeron PC and colour printer! - Grimsby Evening Telegraph is offering a chance to win an Intel Celeron PC and colour printer! in association with BTOpenworld - Visit the ThisisGrimsby Site to win it

08/03/03 - Added a new Message board here - Message Board

27/02/03 - BT Checker flatlines out - BT's online adsl checker has gone and stopped for some reason - If you wish to check current registrations then click on the "Eclipse - We want Broadband" advert link on the main page and enter your number there - We will update all the data and graphs, as soon as BT kicks into gear again.

21/02/03 - NTL says VPNs are sort of OK - Bill Goodland (Internet Director) has been speaking to one of the groups of protesters over NTL's actions. Apparently the use of VPNs on the home services is not banned, but just not supported on a technical basis. ADSLGuide.org.uk

20/02/03 - Lincolnshire gets broadband boost - Lincolnshire County Council has received a £7m grant from the European Union to subsidise broadband services for 3,000 rural businesses in the county .Lincolnshire gets broadband boost

19/02/03 - Grimsby hits the 200 Mark, 150 to go

16/02/03 - Legal action considered over NTL download limits - AdslGuide reports the above at ADSLGuide.org.uk

13/02/03 - Server update completed - After a major update of the server it seems I have lost the message board as the firm I got it from is no longer active. I will be adding a new message board in the near future. UPDATE: Now added a Guest bookhere

12/02/03 - Server update - My server is being upgraded over the next two nights so some parts of this site will not be available, sorry.

10/02/03 - Scartho hits 100 - Scartho exchange has hit the 100 mark, keep those pre reg's coming in

09/02/03 - BT Online checker fails - BT checker has gone to sleep it seems, so don't bother trying to pre-register until it has been sorted, watch this space for news - UPDATE - Now working again

08/02/03 - NTL Update - NTL appears to ban Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) - Following on from ADSLGuide's article regarding NTL downloads limits of 1GB per day, it would appear from reading the new Terms and conditions that users on the 'Home' services who run a VPN are now not allowed to do so - ADSLguide.org.uk

08/02/03 - NTL puts on the brakes - on Friday 7th Feb. 03, NTL World introduced a change to its Terms and Conditions for its Cable Modem services. This change has resulted in a 1GB/day downstream limit been imposed - ADSLguide.org.uk

02/02/03 - Visual Barometer added - Added a visual barometer of the popular exchanges - Local Barometers

29/01/03 - Grimsby hits 50% - Grimsby Exchange has hit the 50% mark - Exchanges Graphs page

28/01/03 - Newspaper article - ThisisGrimsby publishes about this campaign - ThisIsGrimsby

24/01/03 - BT have now reviewed Grimsby and Cleethorpes exchanges and have dropped the triggers on both by 50. Grimsby is now on 350 & Cleethorpes is now 300, which is a more realistic figure to achieve, so get registering to get the exchanges upgraded.

05/01/03 - BT demand tracker has post Christmas blues and has been stuck on old numbers. Latest true figures are on the Exchanges Graphs page

23/12/02 - Cleethorpes passes the 100 mark of pre registrations. Source: Exchanges graph

17/12/02 - As of January 15th 2003, the BT Wholesale demand registration scheme will change from a three step process down to a two step process. The effect of this will be to remove the current six week Advance Order phase.

The new system will work identically during the registration phase, but once the trigger is met a new orders system will be in place allowing ISP's to take orders from users, rather than just confirming interest. ADSLGuide.org.uk

13/12/02 - BTWholesale offers to help our campaign

05/12/02 - BARTON UPON HUMBER GOES PAST 100 PRE REG
Barton upon Humber breaks the 100 barrier and still no trigger is set?

19/11/02 - BT SETS OUT BROADBAND ROADMAP
BT today said that the company had a roadmap that would see broadband reach more than 80 per cent of the country in the next three years. BT Broadband

22/10/02 - BT PRAISES CAMPAIGN GROUPS AS Broadband
DEMAND TAKES OFF. Ben Verwaayen, BT chief executive, said: "It's terrific that customers have come together in campaign groups to drive demand in their areas. We can now identify with confidence where to invest next to give businesses and consumers fast, always on Broadband internet services." Source: BT Broadband

18/10/02 - Grimsby meets the 100 target, 300 to go.... Source: Exchanges graph

11/10/02 - Nildram, one of the leading providers of Broadband Access services in the UK, have today provided an update on the second stage of the recently launched Broadband Exchange Pre-Registration scheme. Source: ADSLGuide.org.uk

07/10/02 - Scartho & Barton break the 50 barrier, Scartho needs 400 to be enabled but Barton has not even a trigger yet, as its now classed as not viable? Which means it will not and does not see it being added to the UK rollout. Source: Exchanges graph

01/10/02 - BT has decided that setting a trigger level would be unrealistic for Waltham. Source: ADSLguide.org.uk

27/09/02 - BT Wholesale has today released a list of 58 trigger levels for more of their exchanges. None of our exchanges are in this batch. Source: ADSLGuide

24/09/02 - As BT launches its largest ever campaign for broadband, disaffection is growing among those in the UK who are not be able to participate in the high-speed internet revolution. Source: BBC News

22/09/02 - The new BT advertising campaign has started with a new guide for prospective broadband users and a cute game to play and pass away the time. Source: ADSLguide.org.uk

17/09/02 - 450 SME's in Yorkshire and Humberside are to get broadband satellite access for nowt as part of a year-long trial in the region. More....

17/09/02 - Third letter published in local newspaper. More....

17/09/02 - Cleethorpes hits the 50 target, 300 to go <g>

14/09/02 - Rebuilt this site

14/09/02 - Looks like the Big ISP's are now adding numbers

06/09/02 - Seems BT is now adding Reg numbers live and not in batches

06/09/02 - Grimsby hits the 50 target, 350 to go <g>

06/09/02 - Swallow gets its first Pre Reg Customer

04/09/02 - More movements on most exchanges today

31/08/02 - Grimsby gets 40 pre registers

26/08/02 - Second letter in the Local paper

25/08/02 - BT adds the trigger levels for Cleethorpes (350) and Scartho (400)

24/08/02 - Added four more exchanges to the list Barrow, Barnetby, Barton and Wootton

24/08/02 - Added a colour graph of all local exchanges triggers

22/08/02 - Letter published in Local paper

15/08/02 - Site launches