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.
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BBC Gets Rural JFDI FttH!
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 [...]
Deeply Rural Fi:Wi
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 [...]
Fair Shares and Funding
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 [...]
Cook Report Gets It
NextGenUs UK CIC is the UK’s pioneering and leading Next Generation Access (NGA) Community Interest Company, designed over a two year period to ensure that the interests of commerce are harnessed to put people first where the 4th Utility is concerned.
Gordon Cook’s December Report captures the issue stateside exceptionally well, here is an extract that [...]
Cost Plus – Return of the Engineers
Had a very interesting meeting today with some household name hardcore engineers, on the subject of NGA projects around the UK and likely projects worth considering for seed capitalising to create Community Interest PoWC (Proof of Working Concept) NGA deployments, over the next 3-6 months.
The purpose of PoWC projects are simple enough – as communities, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]