Unfortunately fibre services are not available to customers connected to the Abbey St Bathans telephone exchange at present. Please look out for upgrades by Openreach to your services in the future.
ADSL services are available with speeds up to 18Mbps, dependant on the line distance from the Abbey St Bathans exchange to your property. ADSL suppliers include BT, Plusnet, John Lewis Broadband & ee Unlimited Broadband
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Abbey St Bathans Exchange is on the Exchange Activate Program
What is Exchange Activate?
As part of BT Wholesales' broadband access offering, there are a number of smaller exchanges which are broadband enabled as part of the 'Broadband Activate' programme. This allows Openreach to provide fixed rate ADSL services (up to 512k) to a number of remote communities as part of joint funding with local government and/or authorities.
Exchanges, including the Abbey St Bathans exchange have limited capacity for broadband service and can only be ordered as a 512k service. If capacity exists you can order this limited service.
OS Grid Ref: NT 75838 62295
County, District or Unitary Authority = Scottish Borders.
Located at :-
British Telecom,
Telephone Exchange,
Abbey St. Bathans,
Duns,
BERWICKSHIRE.
TD11 3TX
See Location Map Below
The first stage Openreach propose to facilitate the retirement of their public switched telephone network (PSTN) is to issue 'Stop Sell' dates for specific telephone exchanges. Once a 'Stop Sell' date has passed, communication providers (CP's) will be unable to order any copper based products if a fibre solution is available at the customer's premises. Accepted fibre solutions include FTTP and SOGEA/SOGFast.
Impacted product and services that will be unavailable beyond a 'Stop Sell' date include WLR3 analogue, ISDN 2, ISDN 30, LLU SMPF, SLU SMPF, Narrowband Line Share and Classic products. Additionally, 'Bandwidth Changes' to FTTC (VDSL2) will not be allowed beyond the 'Stop Sell' date. As an example, customers will be unable to move from 40/10 to 80/20 profiles once the 'Stop Sell' date has passed.
Openreach have identified 221 specific 'FTTP Priority Exchanges' that will be the first to receive 'Stop Sell' notices, see below.
Openreach have not identified the Abbey St Bathans Exchange as a 'FTTP Priority Exchange' and the 'Stop Sell' date will be September 2023.