Check The Broadband Speeds For Your Landline
Unfortunately fibre services are not available from Openreach to customers connected to the Merkland 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 Merkland exchange to your property. ADSL suppliers include BT, Plusnet, John Lewis Broadband & ee Unlimited Broadband
Merkland 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 Merkland 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.
Local Authority = The Highland Council
UK area dialling code (STD code) for the Merkland exchange is 01549
International dialling code for the Merkland exchange is +44 1549 or 0044 1549
The Merkland exchange is in the Lairg group of exchanges.
5 telephone exchanges form this regional grouping.
OS Grid Ref: NC 39795 25540
Located at :-
British Telecom,
Telephone Exchange,
Corriekinloch,
LAIRG.
IV27 4NY
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Merkland -> Highland -> Scotland
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.
Openreach have identified 581 specific 'FTTP Priority Exchanges' that will be the first to receive 'Stop Sell' notices, see below.
Openreach have not identified the Merkland Exchange as a 'FTTP Priority Exchange' and the 'Stop Sell' date will be September 2023.
TalkTalk Sky
BT Broadband & Mobile