It has taken the UK five to ten years longer than the present-day global leaders to reach the Next Gen Access tipping point – and here today in 2009 that time has arrived.

Whilst that delay has been a source of constant frustration to the Next Gen pioneers, 5tth being a prime example, this blog another, there is an interesting inverted historical parallel going on here, worthy of closer attention.

The Industrial Revolution arguably was pioneered first in the UK and took a whole series of twists and turns, booms and busts to reach a mature modern industrial state, over the course of perhaps 150 years.

Other countries, the followers, were able to speed up their own Industrial Transformations faster precisely due to the lessons learnt from the experiences of the pioneers in the UK – what worked and what didn’t, how to most effectively achieve technology-driven commercial and societal progress in least time and at least cost.

This insight leads directly to the inverted parallel

- by the very virtue of being a laggardly follower, UK PLC has the de-risked opportunity to join the world leaders for 21st century technological transformation at a faster, cheaper and surer rate than our peers in communities spanning Korea, France, Japan, Holland, China, Belgium, USA, Poland, Canada, Spain, Italy, Slovakia, Rwanda

- collectively the global movement from metallic path to optical fibre connectivity.

FibreStream means practical delivery, radically reduced costs, with community interest at heart because that makes great business sense too.

Why?

Simplicity itself – without consumer-creators, Next Gen Access is worth nowt, hence 1st Mile not Last Mile (BT please take note!)

Fibrestream exists to realise sustainable 1st Mile Next Gen Access and provides a twin track choice for local communities everywhere:

1 – We help, support, facilitate, nurture grassroots Community ISPs that want to run their own NGA affairs directly.

2 – We enable future-proof community-centric open access choice for global IP applications, content and services direct to local communities that want the benefits of NGA without the hassles of operating and maintaining the necessary FiWi infrastructure.

So, now you have been energised by the BBC and are ready to realise Next Gen Access for your local community, to move beyond watching, listening, thinking to action then please get in touch and together let’s JFDI