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Northern Isles get closer to mainland



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BT HAS launched a multi-million-pound project to lay a new fibre-optic submarine cable between Orkney and the Scottish mainland.
The 70km cable will run from Skaill Bay in Orkney to Dunnet Bay. It is the latest move to upgrade services to the Northern Isles. BT has already agreed with Faroese Telecom to share part of a new fibre-optic cable between the Faroe Islands, Orkney and Shetland and the mainland.





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  • Last Updated: 07 July 2008 9:58 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Guga II,

Rockall 08/07/2008 01:21:33
And when are they going to start to replace all the ancient telephone lines in the rest of Scotland with fibre optics. Many of the telegraph poles in the Western Isles are so old that it only seems to be the telephone wires that are holding them up. Many of the poles and lines are the same ones they erected in the 1950s.
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Schot,

09/07/2008 21:04:37
Portree library, and the garage/laundrette at Broadford, are the only public places on Skye that have internet access, and you know how cosmopolitan Skye seems for the Hebrides.

This is a GOOD THING imo, it could be a real relief for the Orcadians. No more waiting all day for their porn.

 

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