UK Area Code information for Inverness

Inverness Area Code Allocation

Ofcom has allocated the 01463 area code to service Inverness and the surrounding area on at least 1 exchange.

Inverness Exchange Information

Inverness Macdhui NSIMD

The Inverness Macdhui exchange has 1,600 commercial and 21,125 domestic properties.
Adsl Max
Fixed Rate
Wbc Fixed Rate
Wbc Adsl 2+
Wbc Adsl 2+ Annex M
Some postcodes covered by this exange include;
IV1 1BA
IV1 1RN
IV1 1NA
IV1 1EY
IV1 1ER
IV1 1LX
IV1 1RE
IV1 1PF
IV1 1EP
IV1 1RJ
IV1 1WG
IV1 1JY
IV1 1HL
IV1 1HB
IV1 1EN
IV1 1QY
IV1 1RH
IV1 1QN
IV1 1RF
IV1 1QX
IV1 1EW
IV1 1LU
IV1 1RQ
IV1 1BB
IV1 1UD
IV1 1PE
IV1 1GG
IV1 1GY
IV1 1ES
IV1 1EU
IV1 1DN
IV3 5HR
IV1 1EJ
IV1 1DJ
IV1 1AB
IV1 1DL
IV1 1NQ
IV3 5HS
IV1 1DW
IV1 1RT
IV1 1NU
IV1 1JX
IV1 1LA
IV1 1GJ
IV3 8ZA
IV3 8YQ
IV3 8UJ
IV3 8WN
IV3 5YX
IV1 1AW

Broadband Connectivity Type Definitions

Different telephone exchanges have different broadband connectivity depending on their geographic location, the consumers they serve (demand and composition of those consumers) and the competative landscape in that locale. As a result there is a mix of services and related performance which BT classify as follows;

Fixed Rate

There for three fixed rate lines; 512Kbps, 1Mbps and 2Mbps. As with IPStream 500, 1000 and 2000, these have an upstream capped at 288Kbps. Note that all of the other WBC products apart from these are strictly rate adaptive (like ADSL Max).

WBC Fixed Rate

Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) offers high-speed, high-performance broadband services.

ADSL Max

BT's original ADSL2+ wholesale product with an option of an upstream cap at 448Kbps or no cap at all. ADSL2+ can achieve up to 1Mbps upstream.

WBC ADSL 2+

ADSL2+ (also known as 21CN (21st Century Network) and WBC (Wholesale Broadband Connect) is a high speed broadband service which offers download speeds of up to 24Mbs and upload speeds of up to 1Mbs.

WBC ADSL 2+ Annex M

ADSL2+ Annex M offers up to 2.5Mbps upstream in the UK. This product is used by many businesses who could previously only find this level of upstream bandwidth with SDSL. Note that there is no option for a capped upstream with this product.

FTTC Range A (Clean)

FTTC Range A is a range where the circuits are deemed to be free of any copper line faults, and any local wiring issues (in a customer's premises). This range is often very wide for both upload and download, and does beg the question of why a copper line fault may exist without being fixed.

FTTC Range B (Impacted)

FTTC Range B is a range where circuits may have copper faults and/or internal wiring issues at a customer's site. The term impacted could be useful, as sometimes crosstalk is mentioned as something that impacts on line speeds, but there is no official word from BT on whether either Range A or Range B take into account the effects of crosstalk.

FTTP On Demand

Fiber to the home (FTTH), also called "fiber to the premises" (FTTP), is the installation and use of optical fiber from a central point directly to individual buildings such as residences, apartment buildings and businesses to provide unprecedented high-speed Internet access. FTTH dramatically increases the connection speeds available to computer users compared with technologies now used in most places.