Tag Archives: broadband

Funding Briefing with Bishop Fleming

By Matthew | Published: January 17, 2012

Accountancy firm Bishop Fleming hosted an event at Kingsley Village focusing on funding alternatives to high-street banks on 18th January 2012. It featured presentations from funding and business support organisations, including providers of grants, loans, equity investment, and asset-backed lending. If you could not make it to the event, but still want to find out [...]

Posted in Business, The blog | Also tagged Bishop Fleming, coaching, collaboration, Cornwall, energy reduction, export, graduate recruitment, mentoring, premises, productivity gain, rural diversification, superfast, training | Leave a comment

Preparing for Next Generation Broadband

By Matthew | Published: February 1, 2011

Digital business leaders have been meeting at Tremough Campus at Penryn in Cornwall to discuss where Next Generation Broadband will take Cornwall, the opportunities it presents - and the challenges too. Twenty four businesses, including designers, developers, video producers and innovators met to discuss the route ahead for super-fast broadband.

Posted in Business, The blog | Also tagged BT, business, Cornwall, Dr Ranulf Scarbrough, internet, next generation access, nga, Prof Phil Stenton, super-fast, Tremough, web | 1 Comment

Trying out fibre optic broadband in Cornwall

By Matthew | Published: November 17, 2010

Businesses need faster broadband than ever before to run their businesses especially in places such as Cornwall where digital companies are competing with London, or even New York.

Posted in Business, The blog | Also tagged business, Cornwall, digital, digital meet up, fibre optic, Innovation Centre, internet, Pool, streaming, super-fast | Leave a comment

Superfast broadband is launched in Cornwall

By Matthew | Published: September 30, 2010

Cornwall used to be considered a sleepy backwater where people came for holidays, ice-cream and pasties. However, now the region is set to become one of the best-connected places in the world.

Posted in Business, The blog | Also tagged business, Convergence, Cornwall, ERDF, fibre, internet, new generation broadband, optic | 1 Comment

How Cornwall’s £132million broadband upgrade will help you

By Matthew | Published: September 30, 2010

Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are going to become one of the best connected parts of the world under a massive plan to roll out super-fast internet. BT and Cornwall Council are working together using European funding to give 90% of Cornish businesses access to a fibre-optic conntection.

Posted in Business, The blog | Also tagged 100Mbps, alec robertson, BT, business, carleen keleman, chamber of commerce, Convergence, Cornish, Cornwall, Cornwall Council, Elizabeth Holt, European, fibre, funding, kernow, new generation broadband, nga, nigel ashcroft, optic, superfast | 1 Comment