High speed internet for even more North Yorkshire homes.
Anyone living in the Ouseburns area, including Marton-cum-Grafton, Upper & Lower Dunsforth and Whixley, who would like to find out more about the scheme and see how it operates ? and what it will deliver ? can come along to meet its organisers in Great Ouseburn Village Hall Club Room on Saturday 24th March 2012, between 10 and noon.
Residents of villages in and around Great and Little Ouseburn are getting ready to enjoy the benefits that a high speed internet connection brings when the latest Connecting North Yorkshire (CNY) project goes live on Monday (26 March 2012).
CNY is an initiative led by North Yorkshire County Council. It has been awarded ?17.8 million by BDUK ? a Government organisation tasked with ensuring that 90% of the UK can receive high quality broadband access by 2015 and 100% by 2017.
The new Ouseburns internet connection will enable individuals and businesses to access high speed broadband utilising a fibre hub to transmit wirelessly to surrounding communities. The internet service provider for the Ouseburns area will be LN Communications Ltd, a wireless service provider who has already enabled several community networks in North Yorkshire and East Riding.
?We are developing small community based broadband schemes across the county, in areas where it is not commercially viable ? the broadband ?not spots? ? using funds from NYCC and the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE)? said County Councillor Carl Les, Chair of Connecting North Yorkshire.
?The good news is that the funding for the Ouseburns area project is coming from the Performance Reward Grant (PRG), which is money North Yorkshire received for exceeding its targets set by Government across public services. It is anticipated further communities will be able to bid for this money as we seek to add at least another dozen schemes to our current project list?.
?This is a very exciting time for us? said David Burton, one of the Community Champions for the Ouseburns Connecting North Yorkshire Project. ?The availability of high speed broadband will enhance the personal and business lives of people within our communities who currently suffer from poor broadband services. To get to this point has taken hard work by a lot of people? but we are all looking forward to enjoying the rewards it will bring.?
Anyone living in the Ouseburns area, including Marton-cum-Grafton, Upper & Lower Dunsforth and Whixley, who would like to find out more about the scheme and see how it operates ? and what it will deliver ? can come along to meet its organisers in Great Ouseburn Village Hall Club Room on Saturday 24th March 2012, between 10 and noon.
Notes
North Yorkshire is England?s largest rural county with a population of just under 600,000 spread over roughly 3,000 square miles. Approximately one in eight of the working age population of the county is self-employed. The remoteness of the region has previously resulted in limited broadband access. As a consequence there is concern that the demographic profile of North Yorkshire will become further polarised.
North Yorkshire was originally chosen by BDUK in October 2010 as one of four areas for a pilot rural broadband project.
The potential communities set to benefit from the Great Ouseburn Connecting North Yorkshire Scheme are; Great & Little Ouseburn, Marton-cum-Grafton, Upper & Lower Dunsforth and Whixley.
Connecting North Yorkshire is supported financially by the European Union. The project has attracted approximately ?15 million of investment from the European Regional Development Fund as part of Europe?s support for local economic development through the Yorkshire and Humber ERDF Programme 2007-13.
NYnet, the county council?s broadband company, is also working with the European Regional Development Fund to secure match funding bringing the total investment for the county wide broadband project to ?25-?30 million. NYnet was formed by North Yorkshire County Council with funding from Yorkshire Forward and the European Union, and provides a super-fast broadband network to ensure that North Yorkshire is not ?left behind? by the rest of the world in the next phase of the internet revolution.
LN Communications mission is to provide fast, reliable broadband internet access to anyone, anywhere. Specialising in wireless technology, the company has technicians with particular expertise in providing ?Wide Area Networks? that are used to bring broadband internet access to rural and often quite remote communities. LN Communications provides high speed broadband services to almost 100 communities throughout rural North Yorkshire.
Source: http://www.whixley.org/?p=2554
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