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 [...]
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 [...]
After Stakhanovite efforts by Pharos VJs Kizzy and Reg, plus a little Youtubery from the NextGenUs team, here are some highlights of the Colloquium and BSG COTS event:
First up, a 9 minute overview
Some early arrivals meet and greet – [20 Seconds]
More Convergence Conversations – [19 Seconds]
People Create Change – [25 Seconds]
NGA will be a Patchwork [...]
The injustice of the £6 per line annual broadband tax as proposed in Lord Carter’s Digital Britain Report is that it is applied to copper fixed line rental, a.k.a. dial tone, rather than to broadband itself.
As well as being regressive and a most unwelcome extra burden in the currently depressed UK Economy, this taxation is [...]
Cloud Computing and particularly the endgame of Elastic Domains is a key driver for business competitiveness particularly in rural areas, as it eliminates the need for businesses to buy and maintain high cost desktop, laptop, telephone and server systems on site.
In order to realise these benefits, this requires a quality, consistent and symmetric, same upload [...]