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Old 09-12-2016, 13:29
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Amazing program, quite why it was hidden on BBC 2 when BBC 1 is full of dross is beyond me.
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Old 09-12-2016, 14:18
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Totally agree. A fascinating show with a feel good factor.
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Old 09-12-2016, 14:50
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Yes - totally agree as well. It was very moving and also uplifting

I am sat at home feeling a bit sorry for myself with a broken leg and when I watched James having his bandages changed, I felt a bit ashamed of myself.

The designers were amazing as well as James & Emma.
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Old 11-12-2016, 23:45
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The team that found an answer to bringing reliable phone and broadband to a Welsh village which was largely cut off may be on to something. I am sure there are many remote pockets of the country where something similar could be developed.
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Old 12-12-2016, 00:14
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Amazing program, quite why it was hidden on BBC 2 when BBC 1 is full of dross is beyond me.
I've only downloaded it.
No links, nothing about the actual content the might pique the interest the passing FM?
Dross, it was up against Lucy Worsley's Wives program, repeat was up against Newsnight.
In any case the channel that paid for the program to be made, airs the program.

RadioTimes review.
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Old 12-12-2016, 08:14
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I enjoyed it, although I think it would be good if they talked more about the technical side of it. I wanted to know more about the Wifi and the telephone service they had set up. I guess they use a VOIP service to call those other numbers. The camera was interesting.
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Old 12-12-2016, 10:27
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I can't recommend this program enough. I did have a vested interest in Emma's story as my mum-in-law has just been diagnosed with Parkinson't but the results from that wrist strap were not only amazing - the app also means anyone could use it and set their own levels that work for them. This is what our TV money should be spent on!!!
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Old 12-12-2016, 12:24
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The team that found an answer to bringing reliable phone and broadband to a Welsh village which was largely cut off may be on to something. I am sure there are many remote pockets of the country where something similar could be developed.
This was nothing more than a home made, what's called "Wireless Local Loop".

I worked on a development project for such a commercial product 20 years ago and there were at least three other major telecoms companies working on similar.

They all got cancelled because their need was superseded by the reduction in the costs of building (and hence using) a mobile network.

So their utility was reduced to just those places where there is both a dodgy landline service and a dodgy mobile service, which are relatively few and far between, even if they have managed to find an example here.

The problem is, of course, the backhaul. Ideally that should be a landline with an unlimited BB package, but here they used a mobile contract with, presumably (based upon the quoted costs of 15 pound per *year*, per user) a 1GB per month limit. I really don't see how sharing 1GB between 20 users is going to provide anything more than "emergency" use only, not the vast improvement in BB access that the residents were asking for.

What they really needed to do here was to get BT to fix the dodgy landline connection.

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