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The Big Society and rural broadband You may have spotted Louis and me round and about Cumbria with a video camera recently. We may even have interviewed you! It’s because over the last few weeks we’ve been putting together a couple of videos about the Big Society project in Cumbria. We now proudly present ‘The Big [...]

Recently American publications have been reporting an unusual wireless project that didn’t make many headlines over here, but looks like a dream community network. The scheme, which is called FabFi, is described on its website as ‘an open-source, FabLab-grown system using common building materials and off-the-shelf electronics to transmit wireless…[Read more]

If you have recieved an email from ‘Tina Williams’ via the site today please delete it. ‘Tina’ is a spam bot ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spambot) who managed to create an account on BC this afternoon - ‘she’ proceeded to send messages to everybody. An bot of this sort can do no real damage but can be irritating. Any [...]

East Cumbria Community Broadband Forum was established in March 2011 with the following aims: 1. Provide a forum for sharing information, experience and knowledge and undertaking peer review in the development of community broadband services in East Cumbria. 2. Undertake representation of community broadband groups in East Cumbria in relation to…[Read more]

In the House of Commons yesterday, Rory Stewart MP won support from all parties to press for increasing the 4G mobile coverage obligation to 98%. Cumbrian MPs Tim Farron and John Woodcock also spoke in the debate. The text of all three speeches is below. You can read the full debate in Hansard . Or there is [...]

Here’s a video from Nick Hall, the chair of Clannet, a not-for-profit association formed in 2004 to deliver broadband to rural areas over the border in Yorkshire. You can read more about them on their website: http://www.clannet.co.uk/.

They made this video about the Vale of Mowbray Community Broadband Project for North Yorks County Council.

The Nilfisk Group manufacture, sell, and service cleaning equipment, from vacuum cleaners to road sweepers. When it opened its British arm in the 1970s it made sense for its distribution centre to be in Penrith with its historical links to the farming industry. It now employs about thirty people in distribution, sales, manufacturing and…[Read more]

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Barry Forde has kindly shared his map of the CLEO network, which is available to view and download by clicking here

Yesterday’s Broadband Cumbria newsletter contained an error in the events section. If you are planning on attending the meeting in Rosley on the 10th March please be aware that it is principally for Rosley and Westward Parish rather than the whole Northern Fells area. Sorry for any confusion caused. To find out more about the [...]

The following article by Simon Kurs and featuring @fibrewarrior, @milesm and  @rorystewart appeared in the Sunday Times last weekend: You’d be hard pushed to find a place in Britain further removed from the hustle and bustle of the 21st century than the small market town of Alston, nestled high in the Cumbrian hills. Its winding cobbled streets,…[Read more]

Karen Strunks of talkaboutlocal.com has written an intriguing blog post asking the basic question of just what data is and what it might be most useful for. “I’ve dipped my toe in, read a bit here and there online, followed links and got a taste for it, but I was still left with the question:  What is [...]

Today’s front page is a bit different from yesterday’s, and hopefully better. There’s also a new Facebook box on it so please do ‘like’ BC on there if you haven’t already. Some people pointed out the reply function in the groups wasn’t working – this has now been fixed. This post is really about the [...]

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