Chapter Seven

Future Shock: Technology in the Next 10 Years from Intel Corp. on FORA.tv

Welsh Govt shows BDUK is Pointless

The Welsh Government, having made a huge success of Broadband Vouchers, have now committed to extending the scheme.

http://wales.gov.uk/newsroom/businessandeconomy/2012/120202bss/?lang=en

All credit to Business Minister Edwina Hart for delivering solutions for local businesses and communities across Wales, whilst England and to some degree Scotland remain held back in the Broadband stakes by BT's "Vital Visionaries" BDUK

Post Telecoms Futures

Every once in a while a truly evolutionary analysis is created by those able to learn from the unintended consequences of history and see the parallels in our present and future worlds.

In the Digital World, Martin Geddes is one such seer and here is his magnum opus - http://www.futureofcomms.com/blog/2012/1/27/peak-telecoms.html

Internal analysis by NextGenUs indicates that the peak of perhaps £70Billion UK telecoms fixed and mobile market annual cashflow is already passed and the next equilibrium level is in the £8-12 Billion range.

Local Access Fibre provides the digital equivalent of what C.Y.O'Connor did to reduce the cost of another utility, water, by similar orders of magnitude in Western Australia a century ago.

Put another way, that's a whole heap of musical chairs gone missing and the piper's playing is soon to finish.

Interesting times ahead indeed.

Feedback of our Services Flood In!

Maybe not the best choice of titles considering Cumbria's current weather but at least in this weather the residents of Great Salkeld are able to work from home when they can't get to work on their new super fast connections...

"I am delighted with the broadband; to have business broadband speeds at home has been fantastic as it means that I can work from home and achieve what I want to, rather than having my work outputs restricted by the limitations of the broadband, which is a real benefit, so, so far I think it is fantastic.

I have not had any connectivity issues, the broadband does not drop out as used to be the case, neither does it freeze and waste time buffering so am delighted with that.

The installation and service provided by NextGenUs setting up both the broadband and Vonage was excellent – many thanks for sorting everything out.Certainly – to date – I have no reservations that I have made anything other than the right decision to change providers.  As far as broadband speeds are compared then there is no comparison and from a phone point of view the clarity of reception on phone calls is much better – I can actually hear what people are saying when I answer the phone whereas before I was thinking I was going deaf or needing to change my phone equipment!!"

Peter P, Great Salkeld

"Firstly, I would like to thank the broadband team very much for bringing high speed broadband to our home.

The broadband is fantastic, my son has not been dropped out of any online games since we switched. The internet is also much quicker even when my family are running 2 or 3 appliances.

The customer service face to face was brilliant.  Nothing was too much trouble and any questions were answered fully or investigated and resolved with regular updates as to the situations progress.

I have also transferred my phone which despite an initial glitch now works well.  I am now notified of voice mails via emails which allows me to pick them up anywhere on my phone, how convenient!!

Thanks again for bringing this to our village, my family and I very much appreciate it."
Gail M, Great Salkeld

Service is now available in Great Salkeld, Milburn, Blencarn and Kings Meaburn with delivery to other areas proceeding over the coming months. See our dedicated Cumbria microsite for more information and to register your community today.