Ofcom wants to know!
Jul 6, 2016“Ofcom wants rural people (sic) to tell it about
the broadband challenges they face” - according to the Rural Services
Network (www.rsnonline.org.uk/services/telecoms-watchdog-seeks-rural-volunteers).
Volunteers are being sought to join Ofcom’s expanded research panel so that they
can get a better understanding of the challenges we face.
Interested? then sign up on Ofcom’s
partner web site https://signups.samknows.com/ofcom/. If you are
accepted on the scheme, you will get a ‘white box’ which reports the performance
– or lack of it – of your broadband connection. The whitebox
will not interfere with your connection as it only runs tests when the
connection is not in use, and it does not monitor what you use the connection
for. I’ve had one for some time now and the graphs it produces make interesting
and sometimes depressing reading but they do alert me for example to when the
line is going down.
On a different tack, I’ve got an exploratory
meeting next week with Openreach together with the person responsible for their
community broadband scheme. I hope to pick up some more information about where
we are with phase 2 connections and how we might fill in the SFBB gaps that are
left. Watch this space!