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Local Broadband News January 2015

A Happier New Year is assured for all those who have ordered Gigaclear Ultrafast Broadband!

Everyone who has ordered already, should have received notification that the project is going ahead as soon as possible. This phase of the project covers Continue reading

Gigaclear Broadband Sign-ups hit 100%

Gigaclear Broadband Sign-ups hit 100%

On Wednesday 26th November, sign-ups for Gigaclear’s ultra-fast broadband hit 100% of those required to kick-start the project in our villages.

Congratulations to Ken Otter and all the Broadband Champions who helped to encourage locals to sign-up to this.

Ultrafast Broadband IS coming!

Gigaclear have confirmed they will be providing a brand new broadband and telephone service here in Parish News country and just beyond. Starting in Ufford before Christmas, continuing to the 8 other villages in the New Year.

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Why you should sign up to Gigaclear… now!

Dear Villagers,
As one of the local people who have volunteered to promote the Gigaclear project in the interests of our communities since they began their presentations in our village halls in July, I would be grateful for the opportunity to explain why this opportunity should not be ignored. If the Gigaclear project does not go ahead, then the nine villages will miss out on a fantastic opportunity which may not come again. .

Why is Ultra-fast Broadband important?

Because in the future, maybe as little as 5 years, so much material will be moving about on the Internet that the old copper-limited infrastructure (which BT will continue to rely on until their last, sclerotic gasp) will not be able to handle it. For example, the BBC is planning to move BBC3 to Iplayer only (small loss, you may think) but they will not rule out the same thing happening to BBC4 (of which I happen to watch a lot). It’s the thin end of a wedge, in my opinion.

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Ultrafast Community Broadband

Ultrafast Community Broadband

The Benefits of Gigaclear Ultrafast Broadband for Barnack, Bainton, Ashton, Ufford, Pilsgate, Helpston & Tallington….

Speed and Reliability;

Ultrafast broadband is delivered over a new, all fibre network with an individual fibre to each property eliminating the old copper networks Continue reading

Your village needs you!  …to help bring ultrafast broadband to your community

Your village needs you! …to help bring ultrafast broadband to your community

See video testimonials for Gigaclear

You may have heard, either through the post and leaflets delivered by volunteers, or at the recent well-attended public meetings in Helpston and Barnack, about the imminent possibility of ultrafast broadband being delivered to your village. Instead of the miserably slow broadband speed delivered by BT, Gigaclear will deliver, via a pure fibre to your home connection, uncapped, symmetric speeds of up to 1000 Mbps. Which means everyone in the household will be able to use all the equipment that uses broadband at the same time, with no lag, and still have the capacity to do things you never have before, or have had to wait so long to achieve. HDTV on demand! No more buffering! No more slow, slow, downloading! And at last, smooth Skype video calls!

PLEASE NOTE: they will not take any money until the equipment is delivered to your house and subscriptions only start when you are happy with the connection, so there is no risk. They just need to know you genuinely want the service. Over 122 households have already signed up: they need another 280. Once they have that, they start digging! If enough people sign up quickly, we might even have our ultrafast connections before the end of the year!

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More Information from Gigaclear Ultra-fast Broadband

Gigaclear – you can sign-up now. 

By now people will have spotted various Gigaclear posters distributed in the area.  Gigaclear is very aware that there are not nearly enough to cover the nine villages, and residents can expect to see more.  Posters will also be going up to highlight the Village Hall Community Meetings on 6th & 7th Aug, in Helpston and Barnack respectively.  7.30pm start.  Marholm has added a useful forum to their village web site, with informative discussion and comments.  That can be found at http://marholmvillage.co.uk/index.php/forum/general-discussion/2-superfast-village-broadband.   

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ULTRA FAST BROADBAND PRESENTATION

ULTRA FAST BROADBAND PRESENTATION

It may be possible for us all to enjoy ULTRA FAST BROADBAND in the very near future.

To find out more come to Gigaclear’s presentation in

Barnack Village Hall on 7th August at 7.30pm.

30% of households in Ashton, Bainton, Barnack, Helpston, Marholm, Pilsgate, Southorpe, Tallington & Ufford will need to sign up with Gigaclear for all the villages to get the new ultra-fast broadband to their homes.

All residents of all the villages are encouraged to attend this meeting to find out more.

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