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BT has not included Leighterton in its standard
roll-out of broadband by next August. Richard Goodenough, a resident
of Tresham, therefore invited interested users to a meeting on 16
November [minutes] to consider
what could be done about this. It was felt that the benefits of
an “always on” broadband connection, between 5 and 40
times faster than the ordinary “dial-up” service we
currently have, would be useful if not vital to a rural community
such as ours. It would enable people to more effectively work from
home, run a business, educate their children, shop and bank on-line,
make travel arrangements or just explore the internet at their leisure.
A user group of representatives from each community was set up to
co-ordinate interest across the Leighterton exchange area:
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The user group met on 1 December [minutes]
and decided to investigate alternative means. Satellite and wireless
were considered and at the moment wireless seems more likely to meet
most users’ requirements. We are therefore in talks with three
wireless Internet Service Providers. |
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What the ISPs want to know is how many people are genuinely
interested in receiving broadband by such means. It will probably
be more expensive than the service delivered elsewhere down phone
lines because we are only a small community (~215 users). Indeed,
this is why BT decided it was not viable for them to enable the Leighterton
exchange. So we have decided to make a detailed survey of households
and businesses in the area to establish what service people want and
what they are prepared to pay. We would like a questionnaire to be
completed for each household / business in the area. |
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For those households not comfortable with completing
a questionnaire on-line, one of your local user-group members will
call to take details. Obviously, it is much easier to co-ordinate
the results if you are able to complete it on-line. Please note that
no personal information will be passed outside the user-group. |
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If you want to provide any other feedback or raise
queries, please email richard.goodenough@tresham.org.uk
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