Our local economy, and ability to support both business growth and our residents, depends on access to the ‘information age’ via the ‘digital highway’. Rural communities have little or no choice and in some areas no service at all, while metropolitan areas are well provided for. 

Businesses can not compete effectively if they are not connected and residents are increasingly isolated if they do not have access to the internet.  We are being encouraged by all service providers to communicate with them via the internet. 

If Huntingdonshire does not have good quality, high speed digital access we are restricting our ability to attract and retain companies for employment; economic growth and rural communities will become increasingly less attractive.
 
Huntingdonshire has the unprecedented opportunity to hear what OFCOM (the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries) is doing and how it can help inform government and industry of the issues we have.

Arranged by the Huntingdonshire Business Network and the council’s economic development team your voice can be heard at a discussion meeting in St Ives on the afternoon of Friday 10 October, 2008.  If you would like to attend please register your interest by:

E-mailing Sue Below using the link on the right (please enter DIGITAL DEBATE in the subject line); or telephone Sue on 01480 387096.