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Connecting Scotland our broadband future: Making it Happen
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1 The "ADSL Exchange Activate" Trial entails the installation of innovative "mini D-SLAMs" (to enable equipment) in seven exchanges in the UK to enable ADSL access for a very limited number of users per exchange. With HIE, BT is including two H&I exchanges. _ Muir of Ord and Drumnadrochit, both near Inverness. Up to 16 customers at each exchange have access ADSL for a trial period of 6 months which began in October 2002. The solution is being tested both for its commercial viability and its technical success. (See diagram on page 18.)
2 KPMG _ An evaluation of the infrastructure and virtual market (TTE) options and the development of a robust business case to address market failure in national and international broadband connectivity.
PBI Media _ The study provided comprehensive data set on the cost, quality and availability of telecommunications services in all major centres in Scotland and benchmarked them against equivalent data sets from other international centres.
Obligato _ This study developed a telecoms intensity model that measured the relative demand for telecommunications services throughout Scotland utilising a Geographic Information System and a unique methodology for measuring the level of telecoms usage.
Mason _ This study on Scotland's current telecoms infrastructure was designed to establish benchmarks for Scotland's telecommunication capabilities, provide international comparisons and highlight its strengths.
3 Ovum _ A comprehensive survey of telecommunications infrastructure and suppliers in Scotland which, based on the findings of the study, recommended that Scottish Enterprise encourage new entrants into the market, assist in demand aggregation and encourage infrastructure improvements or new network builds in areas like business parks.
T Soja _ The study was designed to determine the market opportunity for a direct, competitively-priced submarine fibre link between Scotland and other international centres.
4 Small Businesses in an Electronic Age II, information and communications technology in Scottish small businesses, 2001 _ compiled by the Federation of Small Businesses in Scotland, published May 2002.
5 Scottish E-Business Survey 2002 _ A report for Scottish Enterprise in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
6 This is the largely private sector representative group set up by the Office of the E-Envoy last year to advise the Government on the development and implementation of a strategy to enable the UK to meet the Government's target to have the most extensive and competitive broadband market in the G7 by 2005.
7 Scottish allocation is 4.4 million, with contributions from enterprise agencies and private sector, making over 8 million in total.
8 Network Trial Using VPN _ The aim is to develop and demonstrate the application of a broadband model for electronic community networking in a part of Ayrshire not likely to benefit in the short to medium term from the commercial deployment of broadband. The project will test an aggregation model using the demand from the community, voluntary and private sector, and will build onto and extend the successfully established Ayrshire Electronic Community (AEC) programme.
Sectoral Application (Agriculture) _ This is a pilot project to use wireless technology to deliver rural content and applications over broadband to rural/farm businesses, and to test the case for broadband, in terms of applications benefits.
The project will be undertaken in rural areas of Ayrshire and involve the participation of Scottish Agricultural College (SAC), Ayrshire Business Technology Centre (ABTC) and Scottish Enterprise Ayrshire.
9 The Northern Isles cable proposal is to install a 385km telecoms 24-strand fibre-optic cable connecting Shetland to Orkney and then on to a landfall in Caithness. It would upgrade the capacity, reliability and security of telecoms links to the Northern Isles, which currently depend on microwave radio links. The aim would be to lift constraints on existing businesses and open up new inward investment opportunities.
10 Borders, Dumfries & Galloway and Forth Valley are trialling the service with approximately 50 companies taking part in all.
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