6 things tagged with “nga”
What’s going on? Summer Update……
Posted by Dave Carter on August 13, 2010.
Having just got back from holiday (first time to Croatia, fantastic place and time!) it’s time to take (a bit of) stock and think about what’s next for all of our work on next generation access (NGA) digital infrastructure. For the past few months we’ve been ploughing ahead with the Corridor project, more about [...]
Manchester City Region makes the case for fibre
Posted by Dave Carter on February 9, 2010.
Yesterday at 5pm we finally got the full submission into the NWDA to ask for just under £10M of investment to build a state of the art Open Access fibre to the premises (FTTP) network connecting up as many of the key employment sites in the city region as possible. The MDDA team, together with [...]
and so this is Christmas (nearly)…..
Posted by Dave Carter on December 16, 2009.
Here’s to a Green (and Digital) Christmas! Things are finally beginning to get a little less hectic and we’re starting to plan some great things for 2010. In the meantime the Tech Team have put together a great little time lapse video piece of the view from the Town Hall tower across St. Peters Square [...]
Finland agrees legal right to 100Mb broadband for all by 2015
Posted by Dave Carter on November 10, 2009.
Just come across this fascinating news story from one of my favourite European countries, Finland. As well as gaining the legal right to have at least 1Mb access by next year it has now been agreed that everyone will have the right to a 100Mb connection by the end of 2015. Perhaps even the reindeer [...]
BBC story on how home fibre is taking off all around the world, but, once again, not in the UK, yet!
Posted by Dave Carter on September 17, 2009.
The BBC have been consistently good on picking up on these stories, this one last week from the BBC News site, showing that the deployment of the fibre to the home and businesses is surviving the downturn, at least in other parts of Europe. The UK is nowhere near the top ten ‘fibre to the home’ [...]
Post Digital Britain
Posted by Dave Carter on September 17, 2009.
It only seems a few days ago that I was enjoying the last of the summer sunshine, thinking I was still on holiday, but in fact I’ve been back for two weeks and I feel I’ve done nothing but catch up on emails, posts, blogs and general updates on where we all want to go with [...]
