{"id":18337,"date":"2019-04-02T08:12:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=18337"},"modified":"2019-04-02T08:13:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T07:13:16","slug":"wireless-isp-cornwall-broadband-could-harness-local-church-spires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/04\/wireless-isp-cornwall-broadband-could-harness-local-church-spires.html","title":{"rendered":"Wireless ISP Cornwall Broadband Could Harness Local Church Spires"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little known Bude-based fixed wireless access ISP called Cornwall Broadband<\/a>, which serves homes and businesses across parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, is said to be considering the possibility of expanding their rural network coverage by harnessing local church spires.<\/p>\n

According to a recent statement<\/a> by the Conservative MP for North Cornwall, Scott Mann<\/strong>: “After discussions with the Church Commissioners officer, I am aware that there are no reasons why church spires cannot be used for boosting broadband signals in rural areas. I recently had a good meeting with Cornwall Broadband, a local provider, which would like to open a dialogue with the churches in Cornwall to utilise their spires<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

At this stage the idea is only at a very early stage and any decision is likely to be a matter for the diocese (administrative head), although the UK Government did last year reach a related accord with the National Church Institutions (NCIs) of the Church of England (here<\/a>). The accord provided a framework for churches to help facilitate such networks but there have been disputes over hefty access charges in some areas (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Cornwall Broadband itself claims to offer broadband speeds of up to 500Mbps for businesses, although their residential plans max out at 60Mbps. Prices for their home packages range from \u00a319.99 per month for a 10Mbps (1Mbps) upload service with a 128GB data allowance and rise to \u00a349.99 for their top 60Mbps (6Mbps upload) plan with 512GB usage.<\/p>\n

Each package includes the necessary hardware and comes attached to a 24 or 18 month contract term, although the installation charge is subject to survey but typically costs around \u00a3100 to \u00a3200 (one off). On top of that it’s possible to add “unlimited data<\/em>” usage to any package and the monthly extra cost for this ranges from +\u00a39.99 to +\u00a36.99, depending upon the plan.<\/p>\n

However we note that a Fair Usage Policy<\/strong> (FUP) applies, which is said to prohibit Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing at certain times and generally discourage it at others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little known Bude-based fixed wireless access ISP called Cornwall Broadband, which serves homes and businesses across parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, is said to be considering the possibility of expanding their rural network coverage by harnessing local church spires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[433,438,476],"class_list":["post-18337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-cornwall","tag-devon","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nWireless ISP Cornwall Broadband Could Harness Local Church Spires - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A little known Bude-based fixed wireless access ISP called Cornwall Broadband, which serves homes and businesses across parts of Cornwall and Devon in\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/04\/wireless-isp-cornwall-broadband-could-harness-local-church-spires.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wireless ISP Cornwall Broadband Could Harness Local Church Spires - 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