APPENDIX 6
Memorandum submitted by Mr Wilson Boardman,
Micromix Solutions Ltd (S13)
I run a £2 million export based manufacturing
business from an industrial estate in the village of Langar, 10
miles east of Nottingham. Micromix Solutions Ltd (www.micromixsolutions.com)
employs 16 people on this site, and a further six on a site outside
Sleaford, and a Director who works from a village near Macclesfield.
There is a possibilty that the site near Sleaford
may have Broadband available in the next two years. There are
no plans for broadband provision for Langar, (despite John Deere
UK HQ and a major Blue Circle Cement works as well as other companies
employing a total of 1,500 people at Langar).
I live in a village (Ab Kettleby) on the A606
3 miles north of Melton Mowbray and there are NO plans for broadband
provision outside Melton either.
At Langar we have tried satellite broadband,
but it worked about one day in three in a cloudy spring, and we
abandoned it.
How can rural employment thrive without this?
If we want to reduce traffic, we need to help
people work from home more, with broadband this would be possible.
How can our village schools hope to get broadband
access?
A serious issue relating to freedom and quality
of life needs addressing, and yet we waste parliamentary time
and effort on hunting? No one who lives in the country thinks
hunting needs changing or even regulating. . . only the incomers
and champagne socialists.
This issue cuts across many areas, but it is
yet another instance where the countryside feels ignored and antagonised
by this government.
Registering Interest:
It is very difficult and confusing to register
interest, and as such BT are deterring rural registrations.
It is easy to find the BT broadband WebPages,
and find out how many have expressed interest in your area, but
adding your interest to the list is a minefield. I gave up and
I'm quite persistent and computer literate.
No wonder BT claim demand is low.
Wilson Boardman
4 February 2003
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