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 [...]
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Fair Shares and Funding
FibreCamp’09
Here is some interesting footage that attempts to capture in 6 minutes a flavour of the first day of NextGen’09 in Leeds on 16th November, with a particular focus on the FibreCamp arranged by Brian Condon, Daniel Heery and Steve Spillane.
What is worth noting is the rising tide of interest in and support from Public [...]
INCA Next Steps
There follows an open letter to one of the original project promoters regarding how best to ensure that INCA delivers Digital Britain.
Shaun,
Several key points and actions came out of the INCA ad-hoc pre-board meeting in Leeds on Monday that you very kindly invited myself and Saul Marchant to attend on behalf of the wider Third [...]
NGA – the Open Closed Contest
Yesterday’s BSG COTS Steering Group meeting made some excellent progress in terms of firming up the definition of what is inside and outside scope for the overall COTS programme.
Something that was apparent as regards NGA is that we can see emerging a bipolarity between open access infrastructure with clear separation between access and services on [...]
Micklefield Community Champion
Last Saturday, on a rainy day in a small West Yorkshire community, FibreStream and Yorkshire Forward’s NGA lead Robert Ling met with a remarkable local community champion called Dave Higgins.
With Dave’s permission and full attribution, FibreStream is delighted to share Dave’s findings and research so that other communities who wish to take charge of their own [...]
The First Third Steps
After so many years pointing, prodding and cajoling to put the 4th Utility onto the public agenda, it seems that finally the importance of connectivity is being recognised across all of society eg HRH Prince Charles in Friday’s Telegraph
What is particularly important about HRH Prince Charles’ intervention is the focus it gives to the particular [...]
Become Your Own Telco
Here at FibreStream we delight in demystifying the black arts of Telecoms and lowering the barriers to entry to create more choice for consumers.
In these recessionary times, with unemployment rising, money tight and Christmas looming on the horizon, FibreStream is giving you the opportunity to become your own Telco and offer line rental and calls.
You [...]
Solving the Hull Problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQtfKvaZqto
FibreStream and a representative of the local legal community joined a private meeting with OFCOM on Friday 18th September 2009, at the instigation and invitation of Hull North MP, Diana Johnson.
OFCOM representatives, David and Helen, travelled up north to Hull to also face a public meeting of local residents and other local businesses to hear [...]
Rural CuWi How To Videos
Whilst FttH (Fibre to the Home) and its partner FiWi (Fibre & Wireless) are undoubtedly the future of telecommunications, otherwise known as NGA (Next Generation Access), for many people especially in rural areas, the problem now, today, is how to get any kind of broadband service.
The following video clips show how an ADSL broadband feed [...]
Just NextGenUs 2009 Hull Videos
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 [...]