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I attended the meeting and took notes!

There are a few ‘gremlins’ and ‘glitches’ with these micro-sites, will report on and see what can be done.

As Phil Thompson suggests, you might ask your provider to repair their browser.

Yes Phil, ‘raising the game a level’ is what I believe CCC is striving for. To reiterate, as a local councillor and Broadband Champion for Maryport, my role is to ensure that Maryport is included in this ‘game’ and not relegated to the sub-bench! Cumbria contributes more to the UK than is recognised (Energy Coast [...]

Yes Robert, we are very fortunate to have so many good people who unselfishly share their knowledge!

Cheers Phil - you are obviously highly knowledgable in this area and I respectfully defer to your experience. Can I ask, are you a member of the official team involved with this initiative? If so, what would you advise? Rather than ‘muddying the waters’ with blog contributions for Maryport - should I inform Maryport Town [...]

And thereby hangs the tail!

Thanks for your interesting, if somewhat repetitive, comments. I am a resident of Maryport, not an occasional visitor or ‘second-homer’, and my average broadband reception tops 5.9 mb, not the 6-8mb which I have contracted for, an experience shared by many other residents as exampled here. A simple analogy of this situation would be that [...]

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Hi Nancy - I have tried to set up a Forum for discussion on this site, but so far, no joy. Anyone have any suggestions/guidance?

Many thanks for your useful comments. What Broadband users in Maryport ‘should’ receive but what they actually receive is an issue certainly worthwhile investigating - indeed, this could be the purpose and driver for the people of Maryport to either engage or disengage with this process. As you helpfully suggest, if BT upgrade their equipment, [...]

Erm…..isn’t this the core purpose of the Cumbrian campaign? Nothing I can do, apologies, you will have to contact the moderator of the main Broadband Cumbria site.

Cheers Jim - apologies for this overused, tired and jaded expression, “Singing from the same hymn sheet” then ! I aint no expert, just a foot soldier trying to get the message out there - we seem to have so much collective knowledge in Cumbria (seen from the contributors here) that it would be [...]

Agree, Jim, contributors have been very generous sharing information from their knowledge base. Will these comments and discussions eventually feed through to CCC/CALC to inform strategy?

Hi, yes the discussions are proving very informative and thanks to everyone who are generously sharing their knowledge with us, much appreciated.

Thank-you. Please forward this link to everyone you know in and around Maryport (Allonby, Dearham etc) and encourage them to leave comments. The greater the ‘critical mass’, the more powerful an argument we can present. http://maryport.broadbandcumbria.com

Thanks for this Lindsey. The question of overhead fibre came from the ‘floor’ and was answered not by a member of the panel but by another delegate who gave a credible, but what would now seem, an incorrect and innacurate explanation of why overhead fibre could not be used in Cumbria. A lesson learned, be [...]

I interpreted this as no one company would have a monopoly on service provision and that local communities were expected to negotiate the ‘best deal’ possible which suited their needs. Thanks for the info re: National Grid - again, hopefully CALC & Cumbria County Council will pick up on these facts and investigate.