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IN THE NEWS
You may have noticed that DBF has it's own monthly column in The Diss Express, 'Minding Your Business' by Jenna Cox of Articulate HLC, DBF media officer. Keep up to date with what's happening with business and with DBF.
STOP PRESS!
Research undertaken by Shaping Norfolk's Future amongst businesses has shown that the service and speed on the Norwich to London Liverpool Street line is inadequate and needs improving.
The latest phase of the campaign is calling for the Greater Anglia rail franchise to include significant service improvements. The campaign is calling for the Greater Anglia rail franchise to include significant service improvements, in particular:
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A ninety minute journey between Norwich and London
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More reliable services, improving upon recent performance
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New Inter-City style trains including features such as wi-fi
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More train capacity - but without downgrading the Norwich to London service to commuter style carriages
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Station improvements, including better car parking and facilities for waiting passengers
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Other improvements including:
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Onboard facilities including wi-fi and catering
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Measures introduced to reduce engineering disruption
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Improvements to rural lines
How you can get involved
Sign up to Shaping Norfolk's Future's campaign to show Norfolk wants a better rail service Sign up to receive updates of the campaign To sign up, you are only a click away...
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Broadband Problems in East Anglia - Home, Business and Home Business - What Can You Do?
Do you want better/faster/more reliable broadband?
Now is your chance to register your requirement with EEDA (the East of England Development Agency) - they have money which they are supposed to be using to establish the level of demand for broadband in the region and to prepare a bid for another tranche of funding to support regional broadband initiatives. The EREBUS web site is their initial attempt to measure that demand, so it's important that you register - tell them where you live/work by putting in your post code and then say what you want (and this needs to be in detail and not just "I want better broadband" - see below)
Go to Erebus
Unfortunately it isn't a particularly helpful site in terms of suggesting what you might want so here are some suggestions that you might wish to use in the message area:
"I have children of school age who need to use the Internet for their homework. Many of the sites they visit have video content and this doesn't work properly. I need at least 5Mbit/sec broadband for video and possibly faster for interactive sites."
"I work from home and need to connect to my company's main computer to exchange large data files. Currently this takes many hours to do so I need at least 2Mbit/sec broadband to enable me to do my work."
"I want to use an Internet phone but the calls are very poor quality and keep breaking-up. I need at least 2Mbit/sec broadband for this and if I'm trying to download data at the same time it really needs to be much higher"
"I have a small, home based business and rely on the Internet for communicating with my customers and for e-commerce. I need at least 10Mbit/sec broadband to allow me to work efficiently."
Well, you get the idea I hope. Ask for a decently high figure (2Mbit/sec minimum) because inevitably we will get less than we ask for! The focus will be on 'essential' uses like business and education so putting in that you need better broadband to access the BBC i-Player to get last night's episode of EastEnders will not really help the cause (even if it's true). Also remember that if you use the Internet for business as well as pleasure then you get two entries - use them both.
And finally, please forward this email to all your friends, relatives, colleagues, associates etc who live or work in this region and encourage them to register - if we swamp EEDA with our response they might just get the message that we really, really do need better broadband.
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