This picture shows the end-point of a fibre connection being installed in a home.
Not every Alston Moor resident will get connectivity from Cybermoor in the first stage of the project.
"We're building it out in different phases," Heery said. "The first phase will connect two villages, Alston and Nenthead. The next thing we're doing is a feasibility study of the cost of connecting every home — and that includes the most farflung farmhouse."
Heery also said Cybermoor was investigating a 'community shares' model for later stages in the rollout, where local people can invest in the company.
"[The model] is based on the Swedish model," Heery said. "There are quite a few schemes in the north of Sweden where you give [local people] the cable and they connect it back into the network.
Talkback
Great that community projects like this can happen, but there's being some stipulation over the amount of money that the local NHS had to invest in it, although they will draw some use from it I don't think that much money should have being invested in to it from the NHS.
Maybe half of that figure should have being invested only.
I often wonder how long it will be before the whole NHS budget is spend on adminstration and non real medical applications.
I cannot believe that the local NHS should spend on such as this, however worthy it might be, and cannot believe that their stated usage will ever justify the outlay.
Such social outlay should be borne by local authorities, i.e. funded by local users and usage charges.