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Re:My multi-decade quest for rural broadband by rwmj on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:24AM (#27131405)
One person in our village who happened to live next to the telephone cabinet had a campaign against the installation of a DSLAM which would have made the cabinet slightly larger. As a result the whole village couldn't get FTTC for a couple of years. The village is miles from the exchange and DSL speeds were really slow (1-2 Mbps on a good day). It was only resolved when our campaigner moved away.

(Thankfully that was a few years ago, now I have FTTH, yay!)

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Re:My multi-decade quest for rural broadband by alistairSH on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:05PM (#27132588)
To be fair, if it was that important to the rest of the residents, they could have bought him out, or offered up an alternate location for the DSLAM.
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