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Comment on Rake’s Progress? by Fibrestream - We Are All Consumers

Fibrestream - We Are All Consumers — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:15:28 +0000

[...] from the chairman of BT [...]

Comment on BSG-VOA Fibre Rates Workshop by cyberdoyle

cyberdoyle — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:57:27 +0000

As far as it goes it just seems like its another obsolete tax being used to stifle innovation and prop up another out of date business model just like the copyright act. I don’t know what our politicians do all day, but surely they have time to read up about it and make more sensible decisions? Even I know its a stupid stupid law and needs updating.

Comment on BBC Gets Rural JFDI FttH! by cyberdoyle

cyberdoyle — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 21:35:37 +0000

Great to see you blogging this info, in the interview I mentioned fibrestream providing us with the fibre for this project, and Lucid lighting it up for us but those bits ended up on the cutting room floor…
… a few seconds on the beeb and so little info gets through, but every little bit raises the profile of all the grassroots people trying to do IT for themselves. One small point, WrayComCom is a charity, but Wennet network is a CIC. The two networks run in tandem, one is a research network for the universitiy (WCC) and Wennet CIC is a commercial network serving 23 properties, most of which are rural SMEs with no broadband at all via the telcos. I was talking about both in the Working Lunch interview but I don’t think the final film makes that very clear. I think they did the best they could with a grassroots campaigner who won’t stop talking once you get her started LOL.

Comment on Community Interest FttH by Fibrestream - BBC Gets Rural JFDI FttH!

Fibrestream - BBC Gets Rural JFDI FttH! — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:10:40 +0000

[...] to see Working Lunch picking up the Fibrestream-sponsored First recorded community FttH dig last May with Wray [...]

Comment on Latter Day Window Tax by Fibrestream - Colloquium 2010

Fibrestream - Colloquium 2010 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:08:47 +0000

[...] Aidan Paul, CEO Vtesse Networks, giving his inimitable perspective on business rates – 1601 poor relief act of Elizabeth I being where it all dates back…. with such delights as the Window Tax along the way [...]

Comment on BT Pole Dancing by cyberdoyle

cyberdoyle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:32:29 +0000

can anyone give me the dummies guide? even the right way up they totally baffle this dummy.
ta.
chris

Comment on Helping Us To Help You by stephen

stephen — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:01:20 +0000

Please bring this service to devon! We live 7 miles from our exchange and therefore can’t get broadband at all! We have to suffer from 20kb/s speeds – and with 3 teenage kids taking exams and social networking – it’s almost impossible to ever access the internet! We would obviosly be interested in fibre optic broadband, but don’t know if any of our neighbours (about 8 houses) would.
How much would it cost to create a broadband internet connection using your technology? And how many people would need to be interested to make it worth while?

Thanks, steve.

Comment on Solving the Hull Problem by mac jordan

mac jordan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:21:06 +0000

To be fair, KC do offer LLU (or so they’ve told me), but the market is too small for it to be worth any other provider coming in.

Having just moved to Hull, and having had both ADSL and cable at my last house, I’m astonished that this monopolistic state of affairs in re broadband provision is allowed to continue.

Comment on Taxing Times Ahead for Rural Communities? by fibrelight

fibrelight — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 11:39:28 +0000

Cost is _the_ major factor in deployment of broadband services, whether fibre or wireless. It’s an incontrovertible fact that the commercial viability of rural broadband is already strained, therefore setting higher taxes will make the government’s committment to ubiquitous fast broadband harder to achieve. They will be working against themselves.

Apply significant and enabling tax breaks so the amount of business done via the internet is encouraged to grow. This will fill the government coffers more indirectly but they’ll still get their revenue.

Comment on Fair Shares and Funding by Ted King

Ted King — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 18:53:07 +0000

My guess :
Broken cables that have been abandoned-in-place (A-I-P).

I suspect that in some locales the existing cables are glued together by rotted sheathing and other crud. Also, multiple pulls of cable through a duct tend to twist them together into a plastic and copper rope. Extracting one or two cables from that bundled mess without breaking other cables would be very difficult and expensive.

There is a refurbishment firm out there that does some sort of pressure-lube that allows them to pull the copper and possibly the innermost sheathing out for a duct within a duct effect. Then they blow in fiber to replace the copper.

P.S. I’ve supported computer gear at the former Pacific Stock Exchange (1980). The wiring channels under the floor were a nightmarish rat’s-nest of copper and plastic spaghetti. I shudder to think about how much of that wiring was live versus A-I-P.