You are receiving this email because you are a customer of NextGenUs in Cumbria.
There have been some outrageous and defamatory claims made by Craig Brass (pictured above with Eden District Councillor Joan Raine and local MP Rory "BS" Stewart) as regards the business and I now wish to set the record straight.
Firstly, let me start by apologising for the poor level of service you are currently receiving. Extensive evidence of actions by Brass (namely attempted and actual unauthorised access to computer systems, criminal offences under the Misuse of Computers Act 1990 and as amended) have been reported to Cumbria Police.
NextGenUs and others are happy to assist with any investigations that may arrive.
These actions by Brass in Cumbria are the main reason the network has been shaky to say the least since January getting worse over the last few weeks as Brass grows ever more feral and desperate to undermine the network before it has chance to expand and develop.
As you may be aware, Craig Brass was involved with the NextGenUs project up from October 2010 as a local agent-cum-project manager and latterly Managing Director of NextGenUs Cumbria CIC until this January.
Brass was asked to explain at a meeting in Cumbria with myself and fellow Director Darren Weavers on January 11th 2012 why the minimum 200 customers which Brass had informed the Board of NextGenUs that he had ready for installation before New Year 2012 had only materialised as 28 connected customers.
Brass informed us at this meeting that he was working under the influence of a then suspended employee (and now ex-director) Simon Davison to undermine the business for financial gain.
Brass then freely agreed to call Davison with that conversation to be recorded by my colleague Darren so that evidence of Davison's role and behaviour could be obtained – a copy of relevant parts of that recording is available here which is a blog post that addresses what may be the wider criminal conspiracy attempting to stop the community interest approach to rural broadband pioneered by NextGenUs.
Subsequent to the above meeting Brass was asked to step up to meet his fiduciary responsibilities as a company director – Brass considered his position and quit instead.
In reality, Brass and Davison are two individuals with a very poor understanding of fibre, wireless and core networking technology.
Brass received over £5,000 for travel and telephone and miscellaneous expenses from NextGenUs which are now in the process of being reclaimed from him, as expenses can of course only be claimed for activities undertaken in the interest of the company (whereas it is now crystal clear that Brass had been working all along according to his own deceptive and fraudulent agenda in bad faith), along with significant costs for additional works required by NextGenUs staff and volunteers to put right damages caused by Brass since his departure as a Director on 27 January 2012.
The investment that NextGenUs has made into providing better broadband for Cumbria has already totally nearly £50,000 and the commitment for the fast fibre internet feed from Manchester amounts to over £350,000 over five years.
Whilst Brass, a Walter Mitty character engaged in Munchausens-by-Proxy behaviour at your expense as customers, will doubtless claim the contrary, I would ask you to consider why on Earth NextGenUs, having committed such significant sums into the success of its network in Cumbria would seek to undermine its investment, whereas Brass clearly has a personal financial motivation to attempt to bring the NextGenUs Cumbria network to its knees so that he and his claimed backers can then pick up these assets for pennies in the pound!
To explain what is currently happening. Despite defamatory claims by Brass of the business being insolvent, NextGenUs is continuing to trade normally inspite of Brass best efforts to undermine the network in Cumbria.
The main core router in Manchester that was compromised by Brass was replaced and secured last week and once Brass is prevented from physically accessing the network (particularly at High Murber a farm owned by his grandmother and operated by his uncle, neither of whom NextGenUs believes are knowledgeable or part of Craig Brass's actions).
I must advise though that based on Brass's behaviour to date in compromising the network that unless he is obliged to cease and desist then it may be unavoidable to temporarily suspend service.
I would ask every customer to refuse Brass any access to your premises and to please inform both NextGenUs and Cumbria Police should he attempt to do so.
The network in Cumbria has had several issues develop over the last few weeks causing connectivity to be lost to customers. Despite not being part of the company any more, many of you will know that Brass, completely without authorisation, has been visiting customers to ostensibly resolve issues of his own making and to create the appearance of keeping the network running. This is because his main focus is to gain physical access to hack NextGenUs customer equipment so that he can steal control of the network for his own financial gain and certainly not acting in the interests of you as customers, as Brass falsely claims.
Brass has been making claims of having secured “a wealthy investor” as a presumably unwitting party to his nefarious activities to take over the network by driving the company into administration. In reality NextGenUs is engaged with a number of local parties who are both mortified by the disrepute that Brass's behaviour bring upon the wider Cumbrian community and seeking invest heavily in infrastructure to develop the network as originally intended.
We expect to be able to make a further positive announcement about this development in the next week.
Anybody experiencing problems with their service, please simply reply to this email or phone / text NextGenUs on 01482 242442 and a representative will get back to you as soon as possible.
Thank you once again for your patience.
Best Regards,
Guy Jarvis & The Real NextGenUs Team
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