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    William Bundred - - "Having read this I wonder if something apart from talk will happen in our […] "View
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    allhallows - - "In October 2011 the spending review talked about since the election has now been delivered setting out how savings will be made in order to reduce the deficit left by the previous Government. One interesting point is the spending proposed for broadband. £530m has been set aside from both the BBC and digital switch-over under-spend. This is to get the “final third” that the big players say is uneconomical to deploy faster services (or even just basic services) to without subsidy. WE ARE STILL WAITING…. AND WAITING AND WAITING… Probably due to the down load speed…. Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Herefordshire and the Highlands have been selected as trial areas each getting £10m. The aim is to have this topped up with EU funding which generally doubles the amount. Word has it that Cumbria was not planned to be one of the trial areas but got in on the action thanks to the help of Rory Stewart MP, specifically the Rheged conference he organised. It will be interesting to see how these trials proceed. Hopefully they won’t just be a formality to hand over large sums to the incumbent operator without a fair process that doesn’t exclude smaller […] "View
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  • Martin Butcher - - "Just had a cold call from BT sale.. “Hi, just checking you are getting the best broadband available!” I replied “oh good you can give me 100Mbps then?” - “no we can give you 8Mbps - it comes down the phone line…” “Oh no fibre then?!” What I should have asked is - “So I can get 8Mbps at 5pm when all the school children come home?” Next time.. PS. My ISPs are Kencomp in Staveley and Talk Talk in Patterdale - I get on very well with Paul in Kendal and my Indian friends (who are very polite and […] "View
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  • Martin Joyce - - "Well, that was an interesting distraction. What now Rory? How about a progress report on the “procurement process”? […] "View
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