New Forest Community Broadband -
Broadband For Lyndhurst! (22nd September 2006)

www.new-forest.org/broadband

After a long time campaigning, and bringing the first trial DSL service to Lyndhurst, Lyndhurst was given the base-level DSL service seen at the majority of exchanges in the country.

But the campaigning will go on, because we’re falling behind again. You may well have read about “Local Loop Unbundling” and the bringing of ADSL services up to 21Mbps/second. We are seeking them out, but no service provider is planning to bring such services to Lyndhurst at this time.

So we setup a small local reseller to keep the people we’d met together as a buying group, New Forest Community Broadband, at www.nfcb.co.uk. We’re trying to build a large local buying group, so that we can offer these connections to the company which will bring the best level of service to our area.

Not just BT! - Other Suppliers' Broadband:

The business case for enabling of broadband is based around cost & revenue per cluster of people using copper or fibre, or satellite or terrestrial wireless, rather than any fixed user count, so we are actively taking the collective demand of our communities to those suppliers, together with some description of the balance of business & public sector & home users, and their types of use. If we can show a recurring revenue stream of over £20,000 per year in a given area, then some of the alternative services providers become interested.

Please Register Here:

Even though you may have registered with another scheme, please fill in what detail you can below and press "submit" or return it by fax to 023-8028-4512

The minimum details in the shaded green are required for any registration to be recognised. The further details are very useful when approaching alternative service providers, and to those who may make grants, and give me the chance to stay in touch with you about our progress.

Thank you, Alistair Banks
E-mail: broadband@new-forest.org

 

Your Name

 

The ADSL Phoneline Number

 

The Installation Postcode

 

Your Email

 

Do we have your permission to register your details with potential service providers as someone who is likely to take broadband, if price & service levels are competitive?

Yes / No

Your Current ISP

 

Their Current Charge

 

Your average hours-per-month use

 

Your Contact Phone

 

Your Contact Fax

 

The Current Line Type

Analog

BT Highway or ISDN2e

ISDN30

Other

Would your use be mainly:

Daytime

Evening + weekend

Would you use your connection for work?

Yes / No

Your Employer’s Name

 

·        Might your employer contribute towards the cost of your connection &/or use?

Yes / No

·        Would you use your connection to connect into work, e.g. using a VPN?

Yes / No

Which additional services might be attractive to you?

·        Offsite overnight/every night computer backup

Yes / No

·        Free local phone calls to other subscribers

Yes / No

·        Remote PC configuration & maintenance from trusted local 3rd party engineers

Yes / No

·        Traffic cameras of local bottlenecks

Yes / No

·        Roaming wireless WiFi access in local area

Yes / No

·        Filtered “Child-Safe” access, same as schools’

Yes / No

·        Internet Gaming, including Video & Audio chat

Yes / No

·        Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

Yes / No

·        Nightly Software update service

Yes / No