One of our neighbours in Orkney is looking into setting up a
not-for-profit to put fibre on the outer islands as well as to provide
training and reskill opportunities for young people and forces veterans.
He's aware of B4RN and I've given him a few things to think about but
the big question in my mind is whether a larger existing company might
roll up and squash his business model.
I'm wondering what people here think are the chances of Openreach
spending some of the promised £600M up here (there's already FTTC on the
mainland and Westray). On the one hand spending the money once to do the
job right first time would be cheaper than revisiting multiple times to
incrementally bump the tech to meet the minimum speed, and Orkney is one
of the areas consistently highlighted as being among the worst places
for Internet access so there's a PR win as well. On the other there are
a lot more profitable locations to spend the money.
Thoughts?
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David Derrick
Systems & Network Engineer
Entanet International Ltd
0330 100 0330
