Philip Virgo is the UK’s leading political analyst on information society and the digital economy. He has kindly given us his permission to reproduce this article which appeared on Computer Weekly today. I recently blogged on the demand aggregation exercise being organised by the City of London A couple of days later I received a note […]
I represent a number of Shepley residents up at Highfield Court, all of whom are near to our wits end with the average 0.4 Mbps broadband speeds we get. (Yes the decimal point is in the correct place!). We are a mix of self employed business people and Non Executive Directors, who working from home […]
I’m disappointed at the way Kirklees Council is messing about with local residents over superfast broadband. This month’s Village Association meeting seemed to suggest that the Council won’t put in a bid for government funding before the deadline in two weeks time. Even if it does, Kirklees Council may not consider Shepley as a priority […]
The first thing to realise is that the process of getting superfast broadband is, in itself, not superfast! The wheels seem to be moving very slowly and as is the case with a large number of these types of projects, there are so many hoops to go through it can feel like, well, watching a […]