reaching the last 10% - tendring council - presented by dave pinnington, mll telecom
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Reaching the last 10% - how can Local Government achieve 100% connectivity? The Solution – Three Case Studies Tendring Council - Presented by Dave Pinnington, Director of Rural Networks, MLL Telecom For more information: http://www.techuk.org/events/conference/item/826-reaching-the-last-5-how-the-uk-achieves-100-connectivity All Rights ReservedTRANSCRIPT
Importance of Digital
Infrastructure to Economic
Development and Tourism
Michelle Gordon
Enterprise Manager
Tendring District Council
Profile of Tendring
Population – 148,000
Area sqkm - 337.7
population density – 438 people/sqkm
4th most populated of all the Essex districts.
8th most densely populated Essex district.
40,000 people live in rural wards
Tourism in Tendring
Worth £344million to economy
3.7million day and stay visits
Supports 6,500 jobs
Coastal/seaside focus
Potential to expand the rural market
Digital Exclusion
Certain neighbourhoods in Tendring have social and digital exclusion scores of between 54% and 74%
4 main issues:
Business sustainability
Education and lifelong learning
Access to services
Social and community cohesion
Wireless Coast
Street furniture concession
OJEU Procurement
Metro WiFi in coastal towns
Clacton, Frinton, Walton, Harwich
Use of Council assets
Awarded to MLL Telecom
Metro WiFi
1st phase delivered August 2013
Clacton Airshow
160,000 visitors
Re-use CCTV locations & networks
Other Coastal towns Summer 2014
Business Parks
Underserved business parks
Gorse Lane
240 businesses
512Kbps broadband
March 2014
Delivery of small cell radio solution
40Mbps/40Mbps
String demand from local businesses
Expand to other business parks
Rural Business Interventions that make a
real difference
• Creative planning solutions
• Business Grant support
• A single point of contact for
the business client
• Result: a fantastic
workspace and new jobs
created
Wireless Coast