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West Cornwall Halls & Superfast Broadband

Published on Nov 18, 2015

West Cornwall Halls - Superfast Broadband and Village Halls

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

Are you COnnected?

Benefits of Superfast Broadband for your Village Hall
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Some Facts about Broadband

  • Superfast broadband delivers speeds of up to 330Mbps
  • Compared with ADSL broadband, which in Cornwall averages at around 5-6 Mbps
  • Superfast Cornwall hopes to enable 95% of Cornwall by the end of 2014
  • 5%, approx. 13,000 properties, will be supported with other technology
  • Prices starting from £12.50 - £30.00 a month
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So what does this mean for Village Halls?

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“The emphasis now must be on encouraging people

in rural areas to take advantage of the superfast speeds and get on line." 

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Benefits

  • village halls gaining through increasing usage of their facilities
  • community groups coming together to publish their own & parish websites
  • better facilities for young people through access to the web
  • online bookings for village halls and even web-casting of local events
  • greater awareness and increased use of electronic services

Interested?

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What we hope to do

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  • To work with Superfast Cornwall  
  • Find out if and when our members will get Superfast
  • Support members to get online and  explore benefits
  • signpost to free training and potential funding
  • learn from those halls already connected to Superfast
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If you would like to find out more

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