Following the announcement of the Final Third First Campaign last week, there have been many conversations about what FTFC is about, who are founders, who are observers.
The reality is that we are all consumers where the 4th Utility is concerned -
from the chairman of BT
to the grandparents wanting to keep in touch with family in [...]
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We Are All Consumers
BSG-VOA Fibre Rates Workshop
All aboard for the joys of hereditament courtesy Alan Bradford VOA
All that is is a unit af rateing assessment, RV is the annual value of the hereditament
Valuation date – 2 years before a list goes live – 1 April 2008 for 1 April 2010 list
Rateable Occupier – seems to be the problem area [...]
BBC Gets Rural JFDI FttH!
Great to see Working Lunch picking up the Fibrestream-sponsored First recorded community FttH dig last May with Wray CIC
There is a rising tide of readiness emerging across the great and good British Public for future-proof Telecoms delivered by FttH, or Fi:Wi to the Human, that is operated on the Community Interest, that puts people first.
Colloquium 2010
Informal gathering of a couple of dozen interested parties from industry, community and public sectors, kindly hosted by Tref Davies here at Timico HQ Newark and organised by Lindsey Annison, long-time agent provocateuse
What is interesting is the spread of projects across the UK represented and the different stages that each group or company are at.
Aidan [...]
Redrawing the Boundaries
An insightful analysis of the NextGenUs NANDS Project over at Broadband Britain
A couple of paragraphs are particularly worth repeating below, as they capture perfectly the possibilities that open up for reciprocal and mutual benefit from sharing and reusing basic infrastructure to enable the economic deployment of Next Generation Access (NGA) networks in conventionally-considered to be [...]
Deeply Rural Fi:Wi
Newton and Stape (NANDS) are two adjoining parishes in deeply rural North Yorkshire where conventional broadband is patchy at best and non-existent for the majority of the 140+ homes and businesses present.
The NextGenUs NANDS project is the first of its kind in North Yorkshire and it is hoped that NANDS can be replicated to enable [...]
Next Gen Fund Consultation
A framework for discussion and comment on the 23 questions raised by BIS has been set up over at Fibrevolution.com
PC Graveyard
This is an example of where our shiny computer technology ends up.
http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/slideshow/14643
Whilst recycling is a good thing we should never forget the risks to health endured by the kids in Ghana who are doing the hard work for us.
Food for thought.
Taxing Times Ahead for Rural Communities?
There follows an invitation FibreStream recently accepted to consult with the VOA as regards the potential imposition of business rates to WiFi and WiMAX networks.
As previously highlighted, this development threatens particularly to discriminate against rural communities by significantly impacting the costs and therefore viability of delivering broadband services to local residents and businesses, as the [...]
Fair Shares and Funding
Copied below, with appropriate approvals, is a recent BIS email to a rural UK Community ISP.
Worthy of note is the reference to BT ducting being blocked at some point for every one of the 31 route examples quoted!
A better way to assess the true situation re actual BT duct spare capacity availability is to perform [...]