04 Minutes 9 June 2010

Minutes of meeting held at The Plough on 9th June 2010.

 
Present: David Hine, Bernard Martin, Julian Morris, Richard Readshaw
 
Apologies: Lee Rennie, Ben Salmon, Howard Thomas, Ian Bowen-Morris
 
  • Bernard has since received an email from Trudy Godfrey (Economic Development Officer – VWHDC) saying that she is awaiting the results of the Oxfordshire-wide Broadband group (Digital Inclusion Task Group led by Stuart Miller) to be published. This work is still in progress and expected to be complete in 3 months. The group (of which Trudy is a member) will then decide upon an appropriate strategy.
  • On 17th May, Trudy Godfrey also sent us details (url below) of a fund available to support rural communities - they are looking for pilot areas to provide high speed broadband access for rural areas. If we were interested in applying for funding we would need to fill in the Expression of Interest form immediately.
    The email was forwarded to members of the committee for information, and no action was taken.

    http://www.seeda.co.uk/what-we-do/european-investment/rural-broadband

  • Trudy is still awaiting a response from Graeme Shaw (Head of IT at the County Council. Tel 01865 816593), in respect of expanded use of the fibre optic connection already available at our Primary School.
  • Lee Rennie reported by email that he had a fault on his business line. The engineer told him about the upgrades BT are making on exchanges all over the country. They are calling it '21st century broadband' and it involves putting optical fibre to the exchanges. Extract below:

    [We all spoke about this at our last meeting, and none of us really new what would happen to our service if the Cumnor exchange was upgraded. Well, the engineer told me that by having fibre running to the Cumnor exchange, it would seem to us that the exchange is actually in Appleton, i.e. the green box outside the white house on Eaton Road. He said it would increase the speed so much at Cumnor, that we'd easily get 5-8mb even though we have copper/aluminium cabling running from Cumnor to Appleton.

    He then went as far as to say that once BT has done this, they will aim to replace copper cable with fibre, so the Cumnor exchange and the box in Appleton would be linked by fibre, giving us the potential of 20mb +. If you're prepared to pay, they may even fibre the cable from the box to your house! Of course that is all in the future.]

  • A few more Speedtest results have been collected and are being added to the results. Please keep these coming.
    Those present concluded that we needed to compile an email list of local business and residents working from home. We need to know what impact the low broadband speed has on the efficiency of local businesses and will try and solicit statements from them with a view to lobbying BT and our local MP. 
    Phil Neale has been asked to provide a list of any business email addresses publicly available.
    Bernard will put some text on the website requesting impact statements from local businesses.

    BM 15th June 2010

 

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