Big steps forward in rural connectivity...

[The Business Barn]

A new partnership between the NFU, CLA and Openreach could help close the digital divide and speed-up rollout of superfast broadband among rural areas.

Access to superfast rural broadband will be generated through a newly negotiated fixed line broadband wayleave agreement and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the three organisations which will come into operation from 1 October 2018.

The new agreements will make it easier for Openreach to conclude locations and payment rates for cables and other electronic communications apparatus with landowners.

CLA deputy president, Mark Bridgeman, said, “Landowners are a committed and crucial part of the solution to alleviate the rural-urban digital divide. It has taken almost 18 months of hard negotiation but we have secured an agreement that satisfies the government, the infrastructure providers and our members.

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[thesilentone]

.............there has been more spin and announcements about the roll out of rural broadband than enough, so far mostly nothing but hot air. BT is unfit for purpose, and the regulator has told them they have to sell off Openreach.

all I would say to this latest news is Blah, blah, blah................

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If you had given someone permision to enter your land tl cut trees down,put poles up, dig holes in the road, after you had been told that fibre to premises was being instaled . That was 2 years ago . The cable is up and no one has ever been back to connect to the properties and i dont think they ever will . How would you feel ?

 

[milkloss]

How would you feel ?

I would have the urge to cut down some nice creosoted gate posts.