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Community Broadband for South-west Cowal & Isle of Bute Takes Huge Step Forward

The Kyles of Bute community broadband project reached a critical milestone in December with approval from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Community [...]

Call for Volunteers to Help with Procurement

KCB are looking for volunteers with an interest in Community Broadband to help us work through an initial scoring process of applications in the tender [...]

Calling for Pledges of Support from Business & Residents!

Kyles Community Broadband (KCB) is working to provide next generation broadband to our area given that BT have passed on the opportunity. We are presently [...]

KCB gathers pace and postcodes …

As promised in our last post, we are now able to post a finalised list of the postcodes we will be able to cover under the present legislation, and which we [...]

A brief update on KCB’s progress

We have been quiet for a while now, but not inactive. We have had four teleconferences since our last report and have been pursuing matters on several [...]

KCB Newsletter: Developing Relationships to make this project work!

The last newsletter was about reconfiguring our approach according to the new realities we had been landed with, this one is about further refining our [...]

KCB Board Meeting, 13th March 2016

The board met virtually via teleconference last Sunday. Also in virtual attendance were Graham Curran, Margaret Shields and CBS's Campbell Cameron. The draft [...]

New Postcode Whitelist Now In For Approval …

We have received this list from Campbell at CBS this week and it represents the new postcode list we will be working from. This has been submitted to DSSB and [...]

Is your postcode not on the new ‘white’ list?

... if so, do not despair. It is still our intention to ensure 100% coverage of the area. We're working on this, and we'll have a solution for you at the same [...]

BT Network Survey: Interim Snapshot

To be fair we have had some positive responses about BT's service - three or four - but a lot of complaint. The observation we would make is that the [...]