Following the announcement of the Final Third First Campaign last week, there have been many conversations about what FTFC is about, who are founders, who are observers.
The reality is that we are all consumers where the 4th Utility is concerned -
from the chairman of BT
to the grandparents wanting to keep in touch with family in [...]
FiWi
We Are All Consumers
Colloquium 2010
Informal gathering of a couple of dozen interested parties from industry, community and public sectors, kindly hosted by Tref Davies here at Timico HQ Newark and organised by Lindsey Annison, long-time agent provocateuse
What is interesting is the spread of projects across the UK represented and the different stages that each group or company are at.
Aidan [...]
Next Gen Xmas News
FibreStream is pleased to draw attention to the NextGenUs NGA Test-Bed going live in the New Year, also in association with Kingston Communications, part of the KCOM PLC group
This project is a Nationally Important and Statistically Valid Next Generation Access FiWi Trial for up to 1000 Residential Subscribers.
Locations covered ranging from inner city like Great [...]
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 [...]
FiWi – A Definition
FiWi is a convenient term to express the natural and complimentary nature of the Fibre and Wireless technologies that together create the infrastructure platform for Next Generation Access.
Each technology has its own merits:
Fibre to the Home (FttH) provides future-proofed fixed access
Wireless provides mobility and temporary or nomadic access
Each technology can also provide mutual redundancy, so [...]
The Daddy of All Broadband
Fibrestream has created a strategic partnership called NextGenUs to deploy the Daddy of All Broadband in Hull.
This is to provide local residents with a choice of similar offerings available elsewhere such as Virgin Media.
Fibrestream aims to deploy 100Mbps fibre to the home with HD television and telephone service in the centre of Hull.
NextGenUs is a [...]
BBC Lifeboat Coverage
Short interview with Andy Comfort on the BBC Radio Humberside Breakfast Show.
RNLI NextGen Project
Covers the RNLI Humber project and touchs on the key message:
Next Gen Access is not primarily about the technicalities of FiWi – it is all about people, community and choices.
Auntie Beeb Gets It!
As a lovely way to finish the week on a glorious Friday afternoon
see http://bit.ly/OWl4M
It is positively heart-warming to see the kind of FibreStream-led NextGenUs grassroots JFDI initiatives that are deliberately aimed at where the need is most, the 15%-20% of the population of the UK who are are in Notspots and Crapspots for broadband today, [...]
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, [...]
RNLI Next Gen Access Challenge
The FibreStream-led industry and community partnership meets with both local people to address rural UK Notspots and also some real life heroes – the permanent Humber Station lifeboat crew of the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institute).
Objective: To identify the deficiencies of the RNLI’s existing connectivity then design and deliver together a fit-for-21st Century purpose Next [...]