By: MarkJ - 4 July, 2009 (8:43 AM) - Views: 563 - Categories: Fixed Line Broadband
The UK Governments Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has praised the work of broadband ISP NYnet in helping rural communities in North Yorkshire to access essential services via the Internet. Brown was speaking during a visit to the council library in Sherburn (Elmet) this week.
NYnet recently completed the installation of a high-speed broadband link to over 500 North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) sites including 42 libraries in the region, which will help many more people to access essential services.
NYnet, formed by Yorkshire Forward and North Yorkshire County Council with funding from the European Union, provides a super-fast Internet network to ensure North Yorkshire is not ‘left behind’ by the rest of the world.
No doubt the government would like to see a lot more initiatives like this, though it would certainly help if they cut or reduced the poorly balanced tax on fibre optic broadband lines.
NYnet recently completed the installation of a high-speed broadband link to over 500 North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) sites including 42 libraries in the region, which will help many more people to access essential services.
NYnet's Sales and Marketing Director, Andy Lister, said:
“We are delighted that Gordon Brown has taken such an interest in North Yorkshire and has recognised the important role that NYnet plays ... We have ambitious plans to roll out access to NYnet’s high-speed broadband throughout the public sector in the region to enable more people to benefit from our services.”
“We are delighted that Gordon Brown has taken such an interest in North Yorkshire and has recognised the important role that NYnet plays ... We have ambitious plans to roll out access to NYnet’s high-speed broadband throughout the public sector in the region to enable more people to benefit from our services.”
NYnet, formed by Yorkshire Forward and North Yorkshire County Council with funding from the European Union, provides a super-fast Internet network to ensure North Yorkshire is not ‘left behind’ by the rest of the world.
No doubt the government would like to see a lot more initiatives like this, though it would certainly help if they cut or reduced the poorly balanced tax on fibre optic broadband lines.
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Comments: 4
PhilTPosted: 4 July, 2009 - 10:52 AM
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Not sure how this saves public money deploying NGA, as it was publicly funded !
Connecting libraries up is a bit 2003
RSSreaderPosted: 6 July, 2009 - 7:25 AM
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Perhaps worth noting that this is actually BT-built network...
https://www.nynet.co.uk/partners.php
BobPosted: 10 July, 2009 - 3:20 PM
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It's the speed and quality of the connectivity that is a marked improvement on what these libraries had. That's not 2003.
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