Sophie's Blog

I have been reliably informed that I can start posting yet again!!!!!! This is due, I am also reliably informed, ‘thanks to Rutland Telecom connecting the village with a fibre optic cable.’ I was impressed to find that speeds of up to 40Mbs around 100 times previous connection speeds may now be achieved. My scribe tells me that all she needed to achieve a post on my web site was 1Mbs We are, she says, only five miles from the Stamford exchange and we have always had problems receiving any sort of signal. She used to pray some days, when trying to achieve her OU degree, for divine intervention. All she needed was the wonderful Rutland Telecom.

We have, I am again reliably informed (I read somewhere that you are only as good as your intelligence network, so I must be very good), a very good Parish Council (it must be, my favourite person is a councillor) and that they were allegedly informed that BT and TalkTalk etc, were not interested in providing fast broadband to rural communities, so investigated alternative solutions. (We were with Sky and I must say they did battle for us with BT and the connection on numerous occasions, we were sorry to part company with them, she says. They were extremely amicable about parting company, and let her keep her e-mail account which she is very fond of. (Oh Dear)) Anyway I digress. Now we can download, upload, watch videos and play games instantly, we are so very fortunate… She can get back into to her Facebook account and meet up with all her old OU pals she tells me (yawn).

I have to report a spokesman for the Parish Council ‘an Ian Collis’ says that ‘We are very grateful to Rutland Telecom for connecting us up and in particular for their patience and perseverance over the last year. We are also very grateful to Alan Duncan MP for his help and support in speeding the project along.’ Ah! it seems patience is a virtue, but it has been a long time. And some of the times have been stressful. It seems the nearer we got to moving over, the further moving over got away. At one stage BT was informing Rutland Telecom that our number did not match our house number and therefore did not exist, while phoning us up trying to sell us a hub, whatever that is, on that very number.

Well whatever Mbs you have and we have maybe the most in the civilized world allegedly; it is lovely to be back. It’s Friday, have a lovely weekend. I can say with some pleasure, and guarantee, that I will be back next week with tales of the footpath.

I am of course,

La Grande Sophie

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