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Nedkelly · 09-07-2014, 22:10

One of the things they look at is how many people would sign up if we go into a area . We had 2 Villages that were missed out the trunk fibres went passed these villages . The local residents got to gather and went round the villages to see what people thought . They then went to BT BDUK and Virgin BT were not interested as they had no plans for the villages until 2014 . They won some money from the BDUK but the would have to come up with a plan to secure the money . At first Virgin said no but the group did not give up then Virgin looked at the information they had got . They had to be neutral when doing the survey giving the home owner multiple choices plus at the end of the day all they wanted in the villages was better broadband and didn't care who provided it . Virgin set up some meetings with the villagers and were quite impressed with the amount of pledges they got if they came into the villages . Both villages got over 55% sales heading to 60+ so virgin are very happy with that . So one way is to get a local group formed it worked for the villages as other areas have been in touch with the team about what to do and how to put there case to virgin .

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Nedkelly Inactive Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: North East lincolnshire Age: 49 Services: V6 & Tivo SH3 on 300mb and 200mb and a telephone Posts: 2,715	Re: How big are VM's infills? One of the things they look at is how many people would sign up if we go into a area . We had 2 Villages that were missed out the trunk fibres went passed these villages . The local residents got to gather and went round the villages to see what people thought . They then went to BT BDUK and Virgin BT were not interested as they had no plans for the villages until 2014 . They won some money from the BDUK but the would have to come up with a plan to secure the money . At first Virgin said no but the group did not give up then Virgin looked at the information they had got . They had to be neutral when doing the survey giving the home owner multiple choices plus at the end of the day all they wanted in the villages was better broadband and didn't care who provided it . Virgin set up some meetings with the villagers and were quite impressed with the amount of pledges they got if they came into the villages . Both villages got over 55% sales heading to 60+ so virgin are very happy with that . So one way is to get a local group formed it worked for the villages as other areas have been in touch with the team about what to do and how to put there case to virgin .