Our Bid has Gone In to KCC!

April 14, 2011

We submitted our bid to Kent County Council this morning after much hard work by the core team: Richard Bushrod, Councellor Nicky Glendinning, Councellor Peter Rolington, Susie Taylor Mitchell and myself.  Thanks also to all the case studies and surveys you completed. It is now crossed fingers to wait for the KCC decision on whether […]

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What’s the Game, Openreach?

April 12, 2011

IF YOU LIVE IN THE GOUDHURST, KILNDOWN OR CURTISDEN GREEN PARISH, COMPLETE OUR SURVEY BY CLICKING HERE Last week, whilst I was on holiday, BT Openreach announced 156 new exchanges that will be upgraded to FTTC (Fibre-to-the-Cabinet).  The list can be found here: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4638-openreach-announce-156-new-fttc-locations-to-be-enabled.html In a last-minute scramble, BT decided to add-in the 10 “winners” […]

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Kent County Council announces £1.5m Broadband Fund

March 6, 2011

PLEASE COMPLETE OUR SURVEY HERE! The great thing about living in Kent is that we are truly at the cutting-edge of broadband innovation for the next wave of superfast broadband.  BT (Ebbsfleet and Iwade) and Virgin Media (Ashford) have chosen Kent for some of their main research and development projects. So it is with great […]

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What is “Best”?

March 6, 2011

With the debate about what “best” looks like as in Jeremy Hunt’s promise that “The UK will have the best broadband in Europe by 2015″, I looked up some famous quotations on “best”: “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.”- Helen […]

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And the prize for the UK’s Slowest Broadband….

January 24, 2011

…. goes to Kent. Kent has (again) won the dubious prize of having the UK’s slowest broadband.  This time around it is the residents of Railway Hill in Canterbury, Kent who take the prize with average download speed is 0.13Mb, which means downloading a film would take about 48 hours!  According to Top10.com, which compiled the figures […]

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Race to Infinity: BT Openreach announces laggards as winners

January 21, 2011

It was ironic that in the week that BT (Retail) announced the winners for the BT Race to Infinity Campaign (see article below), BT Openreach announced a further 41 exchanges to receive “superfast” broadband – yet the exchange with the highest ranking on the Race to Infinity Campaign came in at…..number 553! Here is a […]

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Race to Infinity Winners Announced

January 21, 2011

BT announced the winners of its Race to Infinity super-fast broadband competition this week. The winners are: • Baschurch, Shropshire • Blewbury, Oxfordshire • Caxton, Cambridgeshire • Innerleithen, Scottish Borders • Madingley, Cambridgeshire • Whitchurch, Hampshire Several areas just missed out on making it into the top six. They are Marton in Warwickshire, Capel in […]

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OfCom Proposes BT Wholesale Rural Price Cuts

January 21, 2011

OfCom, the Telecoms regulator said on Tuesday that BT should cut its wholesale prices by between 10.7 percent and 14.7 percent, after taking inflation into account, for areas where it is the sole provider of wholesale broadband services. Ofcom hopes that a reduction in wholesale price will be passed on to the consumer, resulting in […]

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The difference between a bit and a Byte

January 15, 2011

I was asked the other day what the difference was between an bit and a Byte when measuring broadband speeds and I found a good article by Jack Schofield from the Guardian which explains the difference: Communications speeds are usually given in bits per second because bits are what the communications company is supplying. This […]

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Happy New Year! It’s Official – Infinity is 103%

January 1, 2011

We ended with a respectable result with over 21.7% of the village lines registering.   Goudhurst registered in the top 2% in the whole country – coming in at Number 45 out of 2495 eligible exchanges.  A great effort given the fact that the Parish straddles three exchanges – two of which were not eligible […]

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