Winners and losers in the Parish
Aug 6, 2015The Newby Bridge area will be well served by cabinets and the maps are showing SFBB will become available northwards through Lakeside and Finsthwaite. The area centred on the Bouth cabinet will be well served, so too the area east of the Spark Bridge cabinet.
So where are the losers? Nibthwaite itself is looking as if it may (just) get some benefit from being at the far range of the Spark Bridge cabinet but east of here (Bandrake Head, Oxen Park, Crosslands & Rusland) is a broadband desert. Colton itself is at the far range of the Spark Bridge cabinet and may or may not get much benefit – certainly SFBB will be unattainable.
What’s to be done? We can wait for phase 2 and hope that the plans – due to be sketched out by June 2016 - for this phase - include our ‘not spots’. We may though decide to be more active to give ourselves the best chance of obtaining something which is rapidly becoming a standard service for most of the UK. Have a word with your councillors and let them know what you think. Could be a good time in the Autumn to have another meeting – what’s your view?