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  chris conder posted an update in the group The Eden Declaration:   6 days, 13 hours ago · View

  There won’t be any 100mbps broadband in Eden if you let the cabinets in. They use the copper phone lines, so those on them will never get NGA. The monopoly known as openreach will take the funding and then we are stuffed. Just like they did with project access. We enabled the exchanges, and still most of our people couldn’t get a fit for purpose connection. We must not let Marie Fallon repeat history. Say no to cabinets. Stick out for digital parish pumps of our own. Then we can have 100 megabit or more if we choose to.

  
  
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  Peter Hunt joined the group The Eden Declaration   1 week, 5 days ago · View

  
  
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  Colin West posted an update in the group The Eden Declaration:   1 week, 6 days ago · View

  We believe broad band is a Human Right
  firstly what is C.H.I.P.S
  Cumbria Highspeed Internet Provider Solutions.
  We hope the icon represents the following
  ’To achieve our goal of highspeed broadband by holding out our hands to support fellow members and thus, standing together achieve this one objective’
  This may, superficially, sound obvious, but most superficially sounding ideas have a context and Aileen and I would like to propose that the Eden declaration should be viewed through its SPEc (Social,Political and Economic context). By looking at this fantastic push for broadband in this all-encompassing light we can see that the benefits for every aspect of the SPEc make the requirement for broadband little less than a human right. Finland got there first and have enshrined the right in their constitution.
  http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=should+access+to+broadband+be+a+human+right&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
  Even ‘Our oldest enemy’ France and the BBC research in the UK are not far behind in thinking this..
  Is it possible others see this as the ‘preface’ of the Eden Declaration and if you agree we can discuss the implications.

  
  
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  Colin West joined the group The Eden Declaration   1 week, 6 days ago · View

  
  
• Matthew Brack posted an update in the group The Eden Declaration:   2 weeks, 3 days ago · View

  Thinking about Ed Vaizey’s recent speech on net neutrality and ISPs managing the Internet (http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Media/documents/2010/11/17/EdVaizey.pdf), success for this policy will depend on market competition and consumer choice - could this pose a problem for remote communities?

  
  
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    Guy Jarvis · 2 weeks, 3 days ago

    The First Mile monopoly problem is a real risk and now is the right time to be considering the alternatives and making informed choices.

    It is helpful to separate apart the underlying access network infrastructure, the fibre pipes, from the use those pipes get put to, namely the transmission and reception of pulses of light (well infrared actually) that in turn carry information to and fro.

    First Mile FttH (Fibre to the Home) networks in rural Final Third areas are natural monopolies as once one network is built then there are no customers to pay for a subsequent deployment.

    By recognising and being proactive about the terms of trade then this monopoly infrastructure situation can be effectively derisked.and consumer choice through market competition assured.

    I blogged about this here http://5tth.blogspot.com/2010/07/bringing-utopia-to-eden.html and the importance of ensuring community interest ownership remains for the access network to be structurally separated from and responsive to the delivery of content, services and applications.

    The objective being to provide the best future-proof platform for competition and innovation to flourish - these are not technological outcomes, rather questions of ownership, interest and value, to whom and to what extent.

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  Guy Jarvis posted on the forum topic The Eden Declaration - discuss? in the group The Eden Declaration:   2 weeks, 3 days ago · View

  Posted some initial thoughts over at the group http://broadbandcumbria.com/groups/the-eden-declaration/

  
  
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