We are providing Lyddington with faster broadband and IP telephone services. This involved installing our own equipment in a street cabinet in the village, next to the existing green BT passive cabinet. This means the current long runs of copper from premises in Lyddington back to Uppingham BT exchange (Stockerston Road) are reduced dramatically to the distance from our village cabinet to each house in Lyddington. Phone calls are delivered over our network and customers can retain their existing number. Average download speeds have increased from 0.5Mbps to 32Mbps (average 32Mbps, range 6Mbps to 40Mbps)

The capital costs of installing a cabinet are very high – hence the level of indicative responses that were required to convince us (and our local small investors) that this was a viable option. Residents raised £37,000 for Rutland Telecom to deliver this solution.

Speeds up to 40Mbps (100x faster than most Lyddington residents were getting before) and greater reliability is now the reality. Future-proofing comes with the possibility that lines can be bonded to achieve higher speeds or services could be delivered via Fibre to the Home (FTTH) as is increasingly the case in Japan, Norway USA etc.

Lyddington is in something of a mobile-reception black hole so we are keen to improve this by offering mobile calls over our network using Femtocells.

Enquiries from potential customers in other rural locations see here. Press/PR/Media enquires to Rupert Warwick

Civil work completed in under 6 hours on 24/7/09

Central Networks install mains electricity to the cabinet

Central Networks install mains electricity to the cabinet

The Lyddington street cabinet cabinet (below, on the left) containing super-fast broadband equipment. Rutland Telecom takes over the copper links to premises via the smaller passive BT cabinet. The resulting “full metallic path” pure IP network then has no copper link back to the telephone exchange – the first time this has been done in the UK.