CLA President presents member with satellite broadband prize

CLA President William Worsley today (Sunday, 25 July) presented CLA member John Browning with the £750 satellite broadband kit that he won in a contest in the Association's national magazine.

Mr Browning, who runs a residential lettings business in Icklingham, near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, won a competition in the CLA's Land & Business magazine through describing how his business was affected by not being able to get broadband, with the slogan: "Broadband is broadly banned!"

He said: "I am very pleased to have won. I have six conversions that I let and will look at using this to give them broadband. Some tenants have turned down a house because it can't get broadband, meaning it lies empty, which is expensive.

"My wife has businesses involving teaching and international relations, particularly taking people to Japan. If there's a crisis, it can currently take her two hours to sort it out on our dial-up internet connection, when it would be far faster with broadband."

CLA President William Worsley warmly congratulated Mr Browning, a CLA member for 27 years, on winning the satellite broadband kit, provided by the CLA Rural Broadband member service.

Mr Worsley said: "The CLA has been campaigning for rural broadband for a very long time. Satellite is part of the solution, particularly in areas where it is impossible to get hard-wired broadband.

"But it is only part of the solution. We want the Government to engage with solving this problem, and it is encouraging that Secretary of State Caroline Spelman, on her visit to The CLA Game Fair, stated her commitment to, and understanding of, the availability of broadband for people in rural areas."

Michael Locke, of CLA Rural Broadband, said the satellite kit would provide Mr Browning with broadband speeds of up to four megabits per second.

CLA Rural Broadband can be contacted on 03333 447711 or at mjl@beyondsl.net

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