Apr 22 2008
Broadband Upgrade – 6th May
Could it possibly be that Cable & Wireless are almost ready to roll out the long awaited and delayed broadband upgrade in Guernsey?
Last week I heard from an insider at Cable & Wireless that they are due to be finished internal testing some time this week. Today I have just received an email from a friend sent to him by C&W saying:
There will be a short break in service for all High Speed Internet Pro users from 5am on the 6th May 2008. The outage is expected to last less than one hour.
If this is the case we can look forward to a blindingly [not very] fast broadband service. I must say that I’m not overly confident that either this will be the upgrade or, if it is, that the downtime will be limited to one hour.
I have heard from an inside source that the equipment that they have bought in to facilitate the upgrade isn’t all it was meant to be and that maybe they are regretting buying it. If this is the case I’m guessing (from the way the person spoke about it) that we can expect the reliability of broadband in the island to go down hill once the upgrade has been rolled out.
