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Cliburn Parish Meeting - Village Hall
7:30pm Wednesday 8th December 2010
Agenda
Apologies for absence
Minutes of last meeting and Matters Arising
Discussion – Eden Valley’s Superfast Broadband Future*
Any Other Business
*As you may know, Cliburn and surrounding villages within the Eden Valley have the opportunity to install (and even own) the fastest broadband in Europe – provided we show we want it and are willing to support it. Please come along to the meeting to learn more and give us your views.
If you cannot make it to the meeting then visit http://www.broadbandcumbria.com.
A summary of the Parish meeting will be published here.
Lance Greenhalgh,
Wellgarth, Cliburn.
Mobile 07770 808497 email: [email protected]

The BBC’s take on Jeremy Hunt’s revelations today
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11922424

Hot off the press 6th December - 61 pages of government strategy. Some excellent aspirations, some dissappointingly vague - there is a lot of work to do to get funding and backing for FttH to rural areas. Full report here:
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/business-sectors/docs/b/10-1320-britains-superfast-broadband-future.pdf

You might want to keep an eye on this site http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2010/12/03/bt-trials-uk-1gbps-broadband-and-extends-superfast-coverage-to-40-rural-areas.html
Look for:-
”As for the 40 new rural market towns that BT intends to include into its ”super-fast” broadband roll-out, these will be revealed alongside the next list of exchange upgrades in January 2011. The towns can then expect to benefit from BT’s new service from late 2011/early 2012.”