Dorset hopes to secure Super-fast Internet by 2012 Olympics
A leading news portal based in the United Kingdom has reported that business firms in Dorset are being urged to support a campaign that hopes to secure super-fast next generation fibre optic broadband internet access across the area.
It has been already fixed that the 2012 Olympic Games’ sailing events would be held at the National Sailing Academy of Weymouth and Portland where the broadband internet network will be installed.
The County Council of Dorset sees it as a unique opportunity presented to the county, which on the other hand also provided the area with a fast-track provision of high quality fibre optic broadband internet access to both businesses and homes across the county.
January 31 is the last day for registering the feedback on the proposals.
One of the first venues in the United Kingdom to be readied for the Olympic Games of 2012, the National Sailing Academy of Weymouth and Portland will be installed with a super-fast fibre optic broadband internet connection by BT with a view to enable smooth and swift communication during the event.
Meanwhile, a survey is being carried out in the county by a partnership striving to build a lasting legacy to the Olympic Games in the county. The partnership that developed the high-speed digital connectivity in Dorset survey is known as Team Dorset. The partnership said that it aimed at getting data on the demand from across the county’s economy for being helped with a proposal.
I found this thread on “bring a fibre optic internet connection to Weymouth and Portland” by accident. It’s a shame Team Dorset are not bringing this to the attention of the public on a realistic and larger scale by advertising this issue. As a local who lives and works in Weymouth I am disgusted by most of our infrastructure services, our road we are having built took twenty years to organize and agree on and only then we feel was given the go ahead because of the Olympics. Weymouth and Portland are clearly a pain in the behind for all infrastructure support services as we have been forgotten for so long our infrastructure is not in a position whereby it needs to be upgraded but more that it needs to be replaced as it is so dated and unable to cope with the towns growth. Fat chance we are going to get cable to my front door before the town floods and washes one up off the sea bed.