Connecting North Yorkshire

The next step in the broadband development of North Yorkshire, is the commitment by NYCC to provide all small businesses and citizen’s of North Yorkshire with high speed broadband by 2017.  This will be achieved through funding from Broadband Delivery United Kingdom (BDUK) and match funding through the European Regional Development Fund.  An extensive public procurement process is underway which will conclude in June 2012.  For updates on the CNY project, please visit www.northyorks.gov.uk/broadband.

NYnet and NYCC are obliged under State aid rules to ensure that public funds are only used to provide next generation broadband in areas where telecommunication operators do not intend to invest in providing next generation infrastructure in the next 3 years. We invite any telecommunication operator to notify us if any such plans are in place by email to: enquiries@nynet.co.uk

Citizens

Many communities in rural areas of North Yorkshire still have little or no access to high speed broadband. NYnet, established by North Yorkshire County Council to provide higher quality and faster broadband to the public sector, will improve services for public organisations such as schools, universities, council offices and many others across the whole of North Yorkshire.

Whilst NYnet can offer services to the public sector, it cannot supply businesses and householders with broadband due to European State Aid and Competition regulations.

Community Broadband Initiative

NYnet undertook 2 pilot projects to demonstrate that with a small amount of capital funding they could transform the lives of residents in remote rural locations.  The 2 pilots were successfully completed in Newton and Stape by NextGenUs and the second project in Rosedale/Farndale implemented by Moors Web and LN Communications, both networks in the heart of the North Yorkshire Moors.

Due to the success of these pilot schemes, NYnet successfully secured funding through the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for a further 5 community projects. These are  now live; Vale of Mowbray, Bradley’s Both near Skipton, Barlby near Selby, Robin Hood’s Bay and Nun Monkton.

Download the case studies:

For details of where all the NYnet community projects are enabled see the Community Projects page.

Future Plans

NYCC announced at the North Yorkshire Broadband Conference in February, that there would be £750k of funding for community broadband projects in the not spot areas of North Yorkshire. There is some work to do with NYCC on how the project will be run in conjunction with NYnet, CISPs and communities. NYCC are the lead on this project so please visit www.northyorks.gov.uk/broadband for full details.

We are also working with several wifi/wimax companies who are interested in setting up broadband services in areas of ‘not spots’ , connecting to the NYnet network by piggybacking off one of our public sector sites. If you have several households in your community who would be interested in a company coming to install and run a service in your area, please contact one of the following for more information by clicking on the logos below, or download the full list.

If you are interested in becoming an approved NYnet Channel Partner please complete the following documents and email them to Paul Crane at enquiries@nynet.co.uk.

Video: Community Broadband Projects