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What Is The Issue

What Is The Issue. Walton Parish is the only area in MK without Fast Broadband Roll-out plans. The rest of MK will be Fibre enabled by Spring 2011. There are no viable alternatives for Walton Parish All 4,500 homes and over 11,000 residents in the parish will be affected by this.

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What Is The Issue

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  1. What Is The Issue • Walton Parish is the only area in MK without Fast Broadband Roll-out plans. • The rest of MK will be Fibre enabled by Spring 2011. • There are no viable alternatives for Walton Parish • All 4,500 homes and over 11,000 residents in the parish will be affected by this.

  2. Why Is This An Issue? • Resident’s of WPC suffer from an extremely slow internet connection, making them unable to carry out many of the points listed below: Home • Stream Video – BBC iPlayer, YouTube, Live TV • Download music or movies with ease. • Visit websites with high-graphic contents. • Have multiple users online, families doing multiple things at once. Work • Seamless Video / Audio Conferences and Communication. • The Transfer of Large Files and Documents between Clients and Colleagues – Online Back-Up, Remote Screen Sharing.

  3. Why Is This An Issue? • Many existing residents will leave Walton Parish to fibre enabled areas of MK. • House price depreciation will occur • There is no incentive to move into the area, new buyers and businessmen will locate to different fibre enabled areas of MK.

  4. Why Is This An Issue? • Tower Gate as a small and hi-tech business park will be hampered, significantly lowering land value and investment opportunities. • It will disadvantage students, older Residents, and the less able. • Future services, such as cable TV replacement won’t be possible – but only in this area! • MK Citizen campaign is about to make this all extremely public.

  5. How to fix it? • Woburn Sands exchange which serves Walton Parish needs upgrading to fibre optic broadband. • It needs to be done in-line with the timeline set for the rest of MK, to avoid disadvantage in Walton Parish. (Spring 2011) • Costs: TBA – Meeting arranged with David Hopkins, Iain Stewart, BT Openreach and Adam Chapman.

  6. What should WPC do? • WPC needs to get fast fibre optic broadband as per the rest of MK to ALL of it’s residents • Get Woburn Sands exchange upgraded • Through working with BT Openreach, MKC and other Parish Councils affected. • Get upgrade costs from BT Openreach and share funding between affected parishes. • Establish a timeline to match the MK fibre optic broadband roll out as closely as possible.

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