Colton Superfast Broadband Why it's important and how we can get it......Mike Postle (mike@mpo1.uk)

Some Slippage but it’s Good News

Mar 17, 2015
Those of you who have been keeping an eye on the roll out of SFBB via the Connecting Cumbria web site (www.connectingcumbria.org.uk/when-and-where) will have noticed that there is some slippage in the time scales and that the exchange map is not up to date. I rather feared that this would mean that the connections we thought we were getting under phase 1 of the project wouldn’t materialise.

 

Not so! For I’ve been given more up to date information by Connecting Cumbria which indicates better than planned coverage will be achieved before the end of the project:  

 

LA12 8HF & Oxen Park

Greenodd cabinet 1

Early Summer 2015

Newby Bridge exchange

8 cabs planned

5 planned for Early Summer 2015, 3 planned for early Winter 2015

Greenodd exchange

4 cabs planned

2 planned for Early Summer 2015, 2 planned for early Winter 2015

Satterthwaite exchange

1 cab planned

Early Summer 2015

Torver

Coniston cabinet 1

Early Summer 2015

Lowick Bridge exchange

2 cabs planned

2 planned for Early Winter 2015

 

(Torver & Lowick Bridge were potentially two ‘not spots’  - the latter would have implications for connections to the Nibthwaite area of our parish).

 

The Connecting Cumbria project overall is hitting its targets with some 67% of the County’s premises now able to get SFBB via either BT’s commercial roll-out or the Connecting Cumbria project.