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 [...]
FttH
We Are All Consumers
BSG-VOA Fibre Rates Workshop
All aboard for the joys of hereditament courtesy Alan Bradford VOA
All that is is a unit af rateing assessment, RV is the annual value of the hereditament
Valuation date – 2 years before a list goes live – 1 April 2008 for 1 April 2010 list
Rateable Occupier – seems to be the problem area [...]
BBC Gets Rural JFDI FttH!
Great to see Working Lunch picking up the Fibrestream-sponsored First recorded community FttH dig last May with Wray CIC
There is a rising tide of readiness emerging across the great and good British Public for future-proof Telecoms delivered by FttH, or Fi:Wi to the Human, that is operated on the Community Interest, that puts people first.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just NextGenUs 2009 Hull
Registrations are now being taken for the combined FttH Colloquium and BSG COTS Meeting in Hull on Thursday 3rd September.
This event is designed to bring together the broadest (sic) range of stakeholders who share a common interest and purpose in bringing about world-leading Next Gen Access for the whole UK.
Whether you are Community, Consumer, Public [...]
Big Dig Day
“If similarly small-scale installations can be achieved in other parts of Yorkshire, as claimed by Fibrestream, which is installing the fibre optic cable, then rural life can be improved immeasurably.” Mark Holdstock, Yorkshire Post, 15 August 2009
Digging Done
Grassroots Community Broadband, complete with spades, picks and above all community spirit.
The FttH groundworks for RNLI Humber were completed by the lifeboat crew literally digging their own fibre today, with the volunteer cooperation of FibreStream, Emtelle, Steve Medcalf Builders and Pharos Films
- special thanks to ScrewFix for providing the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).
More to follow [...]
Latter Day Window Tax
FAO BSG Members who are meeting with VOA next week:
Back in 1696, the taxing “powers that be” had a great idea or so they thought
- everyone with any money has windows in their homes so let’s tax that glass!!
- on the surface, the idea has merit (from a tax collectors point of view anyway) in [...]
FibreStream Digging Deep for RNLI
Following on from http://www.fibrestream.co.uk/2009/05/21/rnli-next-gen-access-challenge/ today some friends of RNLI, FibreStream’s partners Emtelle delivered the materials to site to create the passive FttH network for the RNLI Humber crew and their families.
The next step towards next gen access is to bury the microducts and for that FibreStream is Shouting Out for RNLI.
For the lifeboat crew and [...]