Funding fiber?

[CriSis_]

Over the last few years myself and many neighbours, businesses etc have grown tired of the 1mb up 0.5mb down speeds in our area. Unfortunately fibre is not available yet and there does not seem to be any plans to have it come to our area any sooner, however, there is a fibre cabinet which is close but is just barley out of range... 

 

As a replacement myself and many other have been purchasing 4g, but, of course, that comes with the unfortunate limit of a max of 100gb / 30mb up or unlimited data with the sames speeds as we have with normal broadband. 

 

Would anybody happen to have any experience in community funding / pushing for fibre? If it helps, I am currently in London - Kensington & Chelsea / Hammersmith & Fulham which are considered to be some of the more prestigious areas of London, so almost everything is up to modern standards except a few parts ... 

 

It would be a great help for any insight you can offer as I believe 360p video has left me scarred. 

 

Also, don't worry about the location being so precise, It is a vast location I gave  

 

Thanks in advance, 

Lex 

Edited March 6, 2020 by Alexander Underwood
Accidentally clicked enter - hadn't finished the post

[Donut417]

2 minutes ago, Alexander Underwood said:

Over the last few years myself and many neighbours, businesses etc have grown tired of the 1mb up 0.5mb down speeds in our area. Unfortunately fibre is not available yet and there does not seem to be any plans to have it come to our area any sooner, however, there is a fibre cabinet which is close but is just barley out of range... 

 

As a replacement myself and many other have been purchasing 4g, but, of course, that comes with the unfortunate limit of a max of 100gb / 30mb up or unlimited data with the sames speeds as we have with normal broadband. 

 

Would anybody happen to have any experience in community funding / pushing for fibre? If it helps, I am currently in London - Kensington & Chelsea / Hammersmith & Fulham which are considered to be some of the more prestigious areas of London, so almost everything is up to modern standards except a few parts ... 

 

T

Here in the US we have a thing called municipal broadband. Essentially the government uses tax dollars to run fiber thru the city. Many times there are also private investors, business that also help fund it. In the US approval comes at the local level as local governments at are the ones funding the project. You will have to check the laws in the UK. Maybe you and some of the other business owners can make things happen. 

[Naterr]

Like Donut said, we can contact local gov. entities to help. 

I would contact other ISP's that supply those in other "counties", which in the U.S. is a division of a State, and see if they can branch out.

Get a petition/pledge going with as many people/businesses you can find that want faster speeds and have them sign it and present that to your current ISP or the others you fine.

Sorry for my ignorance to what y'all call "counties" over there.