The Great Salkeld Speed Boost

Speeding has been taking place in the village of Great Salkeld in Cumbria! The police were informed but decided not to prosecute because we are not talking the speed cars are driving through the village - we are talking how fast the village is now accessing the internet at! Below is a test from the first customer we connected :-

All achieved by simply attaching a small access device to their TV aerial. Sadly this was spoiled by the choice of mug the property owner decided to bring out our aerial fitters tea in :-

After connecting the first wave of customers in Great Salkeld, the week was followed by an event we hosted in the local pub, the Highland Drove, where we seen over 70 people from the village along with broadband champions interested in our services from other villages.

Libby Bateman, broadband campaigner and Project Officer of the Upper Eden Community Plan, commented "The event at the Highland Drove created a large amount of interest from across the whole of Eden. It was excellent to see super fast broadband in action and a new delivery solution being brought to the table for our rural parishes.".

We are now continuing our roll out that will see a large chunk of Eden covered within 6 months. Register your community on our website today!

Dark Fibre Connected in Cumbria!

As of early this morning, I am pleased to confirm that our dark fibre link into Cumbria has now been lit up and we have a 1Gbps (1,000Mbps) connection into High Murber Farm ready for distribution to customers!

The final engineering work on our side was completed a few weeks ago...

Fibre being pulled through our chamber.	Fibre pulled into the trunk fibre chamber.
Rory Stewart MP and Eden District Council Chair Joan Raine lend a hand with fibre pulling and splicing.	John Colton from Lucid splicing the fibre cable in our building.

...and then, at 4am last Wednesday morning, the splicing engineers arrived to attach our cable to the trunk fibre...

Inside of the splicing dome.

Splicing dome ready to go back into the chamber.

The final piece of the jigsaw was the equipment to light the fibre arriving yesterday morning. I then travelled down to Manchester and back fitting equipment at the start and end along with at regeneration points along the way.

Servers and routers go in at the Manchester data centre end.

High Murber Farm end in Cumbria with test customer router.

And the result of all this work :-

We are now working on a roll out plan that will see is cover a large part of Eden over the next 6 months. Register your community today on our website to see us begin serving your village!

Spotlight on Scothern

Another community steps up to embrace the NextGenUs community interest approach to future-proof symmetric superfast broadband (SSB).



On an extraordinary Wednesday evening, thanks to sterling efforts by local broadband pioneers and the Parish Council, an unprecedented number (estimated at 135 local residents plus West Lindsey District and Lincolnshire County Councils representatives) turned out in force  at the local school for the NextGenUs Roadshow to see, hear and ask questions.



Already since a significant number of residents have stepped up and expressed their firm interest in securing for Scothern the same quality outcome as Ashby residents and businesses have enjoyed for the last year.

As usual, NextGenUs aim to deliver service in 3 to 6 months of the required local demand level being met.

A classic example of Big Society in action aka Together We Are The Network