Final Third Pilots Announced

Great news for local communities in North Yorkshire, Cumbria, Herefordshire, Highlands n Islands with the announcement of BDUK Market Testing Pilot Projects in today's CSR (Comprehensive Spending Review).

NextGenUs has already demonstrated how by working in partnership with North Yorkshire County Council and their subsidiary NYNet Ltd then Fat Pipe internet feeds from Public Sector networks can be effectively used to provide service to rural locations under the Community Interest remit.

What will be particularly interesting is to see how Big Society, being pioneered for rural broadband in the constituency of Rory Stewart MP in Cumbria will play with these BDUK Pilot projects - let us hope that the voice of local communities is heard and listened to loud and clear.

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Planning the future...

Surveying the routes...

An eventful Community Interest weekend helping WENNET to expand and improve their community broadband FiWiPie network, best presented as a short youtube video by CyberDoyle:

Prior to this activity in rural Lancashire, work continued over the border in Cumbria with NextGenUs upgrading GAB existing wireless network to provide the local community of Great Asby with a better level of broadband service, part of a journey that will ultimately lead to FttH, Fibre to the Home.

Below, Miles Mandelson from GAB, explains the current network to BBC Look North: