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 [...]
Community Broadband
Taxing Times Ahead for Rural Communities?
BT Pole Dancing
Attached are a set of seven pages of a guidance document received by a Community network several months ago.
The subject matter is how independent community networks might go about sharing existing BT infrastructure like telegraph poles in rural areas and comments are welcomed here regarding how feasible such a contract might be in practice, from [...]
JustNextGenUs Hull Colloquium and BSG COTS Meeting
A huge thank you to the 100+ people who travelled (from as far afield as Canada) to attend locally in Hull and remotely yesterday.
Based on the success of the day and the overwhelmingly positive feedback received, we have decided to organise a rolling series of regular colloquia and would encourage communities and champions to get [...]
YOU CAN do NGA too
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, [...]