Telecoms

Spot the Difference

When exactly did the public call box (PCB) outside the post office vanish? It's certainly not there now. This leaves the town without a PCB at all. The only other example was on Market Street but that was removed 10 years ago. No one has noticed b…

FTTC has Arrived—for some

At 10 a.m. this morning, they announced that superfast broadband had arrived—at least for some in Rhuthun/Ruthin. The early adopting fortunate few were connected to wiring cabinets 5 and 6 (parts of Llanfwrog Urban, Dro Deg and Parc y Castell areas).…

Digital Update

Broadband speed recorded at home, January 31st, 2015 BT Openreach is still predicting that the fibre optic broadband revolution will start in March. Is it a coincidence, though, that with 17 days to go to the beginning of that month, copper-wire…

The New Digital Dawn…

… is almost upon Rhuthun/Ruthin. We used to laugh at computer-driven technological change. It was a subject suitable only for nerds. In the late 1990s, as internet computing began to hit headlines, do you remember pundits & presenters on Post …

10 Years Ago

I have come across a copy of the Denbighshire Free Press dated February 5th, 2004. Readers may like to know some of the changes within. First, though, is the headline "Waterworld". The article refers to flooding across the region. Rhuthun/…

Pulling the Plug

When was the last time you used a public telephone? Thought so. So far back you can't remember. Probably more than five years ago, at the time mobile telephony became pretty much universal. BT's plans to pull the plug on boxes in nine vill…

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