Links to more Information

The following links provide details of discussions of the problems with Basingstoke and Deane Council, Hampshire County Council and the local press..

Many thanks to Basingstoke and Deane and Hampshire County Council for allowing the use of their material, and to the local press who have both allowed the following information to be included, and for taking an interest in the campaign (watch the Gazette for more information in the next few days)

We still await a response from our MP, Maria Miller on the campaign.

Title	Source	Description	Date	Type
Broadband strategy for Basingstoke and Deane	Basingstoke & Deane Council	Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council appointed Wired Wessex to carry out a broadband mapping project in May 2003. The purpose of this report is to summarise the work carried out over the last 6 months and make recommendations on the Council’s future strategy for dealing with broadband issues.	May 2003
News: Basingstoke has too many 'not spots'	Basingstoke Gazette	BASINGSTOKE has been singled out as a broadband “notspot”, according to nationwide research. Many areas in the town and the surrounding area are too far away from the telephone exchange to get a service above 2Mbps, the study commissioned by the BBC found.	4 June 2009
Basingstoke and Deane appeal for details of problems	Basingstoke and Deane Council	Original request from B&D Council for reports on broadband problems. Don't worry if you missed this, it was very hard to find. The request was... Views are being sought by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council and Hampshire County Council’s eHampshire project this month (June) as part of a programme to improve broadband services across the borough.	May 2008
News: Music man pleads for broadband speed	Basingstoke Gazette	AN ENTREPRENEUR has added his voice to a growing campaign for faster broadband in parts of Basingstoke. Residents in Hatch Warren and Kempshott have complained the service is slow compared with the rest of Basingstoke because of the distance from the telephone exchange in the town centre.	Nov 2007
BBC News- UK Hotspots. Basingstoke prime example	BBC	BBC details UK problem with broadband, and references Basingstoke as a prime example... "In Basingstoke, for example, 50% of telephone lines are more than 6km from the exchange, and in Hampshire as a whole a quarter of postcodes get less than 1Mbps. For those struggling on slow connections it can mean a very different surfing experience from those enjoying higher speeds. "	26 May 2009
Computer active repeats BBc findings, and references Hampshire problems	Computer Active magazine	As computer active says, "Often the issue is how far many homes are situated from their local exchanges. According to the BBC, the study from broadband search site Samknows showed that in Basingstoke 50 per cent of telephone lines are more than 6km from the exchange. In Hampshire as a whole a quarter of postcodes get less than 1Mbits/sec."	May 2009
Maria Miller reports on meeting with BT	Maria Miller MP	** PENDING APPROVAL TO USE **
eHampshire response paper to Labour Governments digital Britain Report	Hampshire County council	A detailed report by Hampshire County Council on the lack of infrastructure throughout hampshire, comparing the facilities currently available compared to the suggested 2Mb minimum set out by the current UK Government. Provides useful tables of how many homes have no or limited internet access	March 2009
Labour Governments digital Britain Report (FULL)	Hampshire County council	Lord Carters digital Britain Report in Full. Setting the benchmark for how internet should be made available to everybody in the UK by the end of 2012. WARNING - Its a very big report. but the executive summary is 25 pages, and worth reading.	June 2009
eHampshire news page on the FTTC BT announcement	Hampshire County council	eHampshire coverage of the BT decision to make Basingstoke one of the very few selected towns in Southern England to be selected for FTTC cable deployment.	July 2009
Faster broadband to bring Net gains	Basingstoke Gazette	BT Openreach is currently laying fibre optic cables from its Victoria Steet exchange to 77 of 171 telephone cabinets in the borough. This will allow residents whose phone lines run off them to access broadband data download speeds of between 15 and 40 megabits per second (Mbps). Nationally, current average download speeds are about 2.5Mbps.	December 2009
Why have we been left out of upgrade?	Basingstoke Gazette	PLANS to roll out super-fast broadband across Basingstoke have missed out some of the people who suffer most with slow Internet access While BT Openreach’s upgrade is good news for many, some who have campaigned for faster access will not benefit – and they are very unhappy about that.	December 2009
		More to Follow....

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