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The Council mainframe was shut down on the 28th April 2015. The only system that had been using the mainframe prior to that was the in-house Social Care system which was replaced towards the end of 2014. The mainframe was left running after it was replaced that so that the data could be archived...

Stafford Newsletter Bus Depot story Looks like the 3 service is gone and there's a reduced 1 service as AndyST17 has linked to above. The 76 service will be no more as well.

As a final update I have finally been moved to a fibre connection on the 23rd :) The BT engineer called me at 12.30 pm to apologise for running late and said he was about to go to the cabinet to switch my line. At 1 pm the line dropped and 10-15 minutes later he turned up. He put a new...

Got home last night to discover an email from PlusNet telling me my upgrade had been moved to next week :( Had to then change it again as the date/time I was given wasn't convenient so now it's the morning of the 23rd. However this isn't confirmed yet and even if it is it seems like BT can...

Location wise I'm living at the end of Silkmore Crescent. My current broadband is £16.50 with PlusNet (up to 20 meg speed, 20 gig download limit) as I'm on an old account type with the add-on for priority on their network. The new fibre account is the same amount, with a 40 gig download limit...

Bit of an update ... I had an email today from PlusNet saying that fibre optic was enabled in my area and I should call them to upgrade. Granted I thought it's a few months off but I thought I might get a date out of them so I called. Went through the upgrade with the chap at the other end and...

Had a talk with a BT engineer with his head in the new cabinet on Silkmore Lane yesterday. He confirmed the new cabinets were the first stage of the fibre optic roll out, but there is still the main cabling and the creation of the fibre spine it all hangs off to do. I asked if we were still on...

Apologies for resurrecting an old thread but ... I noticed last Friday that at the end of Silkmore Crescent they are placing a new green BT box near the existing one, and that this morning a BT Openreach van turned up with a large cable spool in tow. Granted it could just be repair work on the...