Tag Archives: Building the Big Society

NextGenUs Experience

What does the future hold for super-fast broadband?
What does Next Generation Internet Access Mean to Us?

Come along to the NextGenUs Broadband Experience and find out!

Broadband is a big topic in the news locally and nationally right now, particularly the lack of decent service in rural districts like Eden. It’s what is known [...]

We are all Cumbrians now

I feel rathered honoured today, having read the Rory Stewart interview in the Sunday Telegraph, P15.
As one of the four folks the other Friday (actually there were five community broadbanders in total – two Cumbrian residents, two Lancastrians and a Yorkshireman) mentioned munching Cyberdoyle’s delicious Lemon Drizzle cake and also one of the two who [...]

Dangly Bits

Trust women! – both a perennial male exclamation and perhaps the answer to solving the Final Third problem too?
Anyone who spends any time at industry events will immediately recognise the gender imbalance in the telecoms sector – where are girls?
There doesn’t appear to be any technical reason for testosterone to be a mandatory requirement and [...]

End of the INCA Trail

It has been a most unexpected journey along the INCA Trail from what started out in September 2009 as merely a minor, routine enquiry to BIS Civil Servants, initially Andy Carter and latterly Simon Towler and Sam Sharps.
The concern expressed to BIS Civil Servants centred on the apparent scope creep of INCA and the worrying [...]