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12 Jan 2015

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Blackdown Hills broadband failure: public meeting

Friday, February 6, 2015, 6pm to 8pm In Upottery Manor Rooms EX14 9PL
(Organised by Upottery Parish Council)

Last February, Neil Parish MP said he would come back to Upottery one year later to see how broadband provision has improved. Since then Connecting Devon & Somerset (CDS) has designated 90% of the parish and large areas of the Blackdown Hills as “Out of Programme”. Without fast broadband rural economies will fall behind those of nearby towns which are growing by £20 for every £1 invested in broadband.

In April, CDS will sign contracts with suppliers for a Phase 2, Superfast Extension Programme, but this will leave over 100,000 people in 45,000 properties without improvement in broadband for the rest of this decade.

Come along and let your views be known.
See http://www.upottery.com for more information.

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  1. Last week I inquired about superfast fibre optic broadband.

    I was pleased to find out that our area IS enabled for fibre optic broadband, but because our green roadside cabinet is several miles away, it would not be superfast at all, and would likely only match our copper broadband speeds.

    What was the point of installing fibre broadband for our location if it provides no increase in speed – except of course for headline spin for Devon County Council and for BT profits (they are paid to deliver it)?

    It seems to me that someone has been misled into believing that fibre = superfast when apparently this is not the case at all.

    So just how many / what proportion of rural areas are being enabled for fibre broadband without any real speed increase, and just how much is this costing us?

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    • Rachel, all rural areas in Devon ARE as important as the Blackdown Hills. The public meeting Feb 6 has been organised in the interests of the 90,000 properties in rural Devon & Somerset deemed “Out of Programme” by Connecting Devon & Somerset and people from all these areas will be very welcome at the meeting to put questions about their own areas to people from Connecting Devon & Somerset.

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