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    • Fast Start Event Marks Beginning of Detailed Survey Work Across the Region

      Connecting Devon and Somerset has held an event at Dartington Hall to mark the start of detailed survey work for the programme. The event was attended by planning, highways and traffic management representatives as well as key officers and members

    • CDS Signs Contract with BT

      A £94 million project to transform broadband speeds for businesses and residents across Devon and Somerset (including Devon, Torbay, Plymouth, Somerset, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset) within the next four years was announced today. Connecting Devon and

    • The New CDS Website Is Live!

      We’ve been busy working on the new CDS site and are pleased to announce it is now live. Key new additions are: Greater detail on our available community and business support and related partners YTKO and Cosmic. The new resident and business forms found on

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Information Technology

IT & Media Company @ Ottery St Mary, Devon

Posted: 03/09/2012

Our business relies on Broadband and our current location (3 miles from Ottery St Mary Exchange) means that we only get approximately 1.8Mbps connection speed. As a website developer and video production company we have a great need for super fast broadband and would massively benefit from both fast download, and more importantly for us; fast upload. Currently our uploads can take hours (for video files) and 30 minutes or more for web sites.

Faster broadband would mean we could work more efficiently, deliver client projects faster and compete (from a technology point of view) with our urban based competitors. Our home office allows us to be greener, however the lack of fast Internet connectivity is a serious problem that may one day mean we have to re-locate reducing our profitability and decreasing our margins.

I feel we are penalised for working in the country. Already service providers are offering services over 50 times faster to city dwellers, this is only going to increase the ‘digital divide’ making green, home working businesses an unworkable option for many.

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