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 [...]
Next Gen Access
INCA Next Steps
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 [...]
Helping Us To Help You
Since announcing plans to bring fibre to the Great Thornton Street Estate in Hull, we’ve been inundated with emails asking us to do the same elsewhere in the city and across the country too.
If you want us to bring service to your community, and if you can prove there is sufficient demand, then we will [...]
Humber Bridge Revisited
A comparison between hope and reality for river bridging and its relevance for next-gen in and around a North-East Coastal City today.
According to http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2006-01-18b.43102.h and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humber_Bridge the Humber Bridge actually cost around £100M on completion in 1981 and, through the magic of compound interest, this represents a debt of £300M+ today that will still [...]
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 [...]
Elastic Domains – NextGen Killer App?
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 [...]
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.
Social Notspots
Networks have to be economically sustainable but there must also be value to people. Without people the network is silent,” said Guy Jarvis, managing director of FibreStream.
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, [...]