Sort of thing the govmt Scottish/westminster should be funding under their notspot funding systems surely?
On Wed, 16 Aug 2017 at 18:45, David Derrick <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? > -- > David Derrick > Systems & Network Engineer > Entanet International Ltd > 0330 100 0330 > > -- -- Martin Hepworth, CISSP Oxford, UK
