11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Thank you.
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I'm going to be mentioning them in Aberconwy.
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
And are you aware of any work that's been done with Pembrokeshire and their digital broadband delivery programme team? I wonder if any other local authorities have thought to themselves—. Are they aware of how well it's—? Because I've always found there's…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Thank you, Chair. Ogi talk about the benefits of public-private co-operation, for example in Pembrokeshire. How can this good work practice be rolled out more widely?
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes.
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. A really simple question: is it as simple as just plugging your phone into the internet, or do you need a different telephone, and are those phones more expensive than a conventional phone?
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. Well, those are the sorts of questions I'll pose to Welsh Government. But the other thing for me that I find quite fascinating is that the last roll-out scheme didn't include any marketing. I felt really that I was doing the job sometimes, because we…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. Research by the Welsh Government shows that 7 per cent of adults are not online and that access to online services mirrors other inequalities in society. I know in my own constituency, the percentage of people not able to—[Inaudible.]—the internet or…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
What needs to be done by stakeholders, including the Welsh Government, Ofcom and broadband providers to help people get online where broadband options exist?
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Yes. In the last two or three years, I've been fighting for every local community in terms of when BT have tried to take away their little red phone box and things or make it non-workable. Wouldn't you agree that, until this particular system really gets to…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
I have to be honest, I've only learnt today that every authority has a digital officer, so you can bet your life who I'm going to be contacting. Be warned, if they're watching now.
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Because it is difficult when they come to me, even, you know.
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
But how do we get that out to those communities?
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
So, the question I asked to the earlier panel was: how do we actually get it through to those people who really do feel hard done by because their neighbours have got it and they haven't? How can we empower those few?
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 2
Thank you. If money was no object, which technological solutions are most appropriate to connect that 1 per cent of premises that can't get decent broadband?
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you. Openreach is currently working to connect 39,000 premises to superfast broadband. How effectively do you think Openreach communicate with the communities involved? And there are two points to this question, really. There's the fact that I know at…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
My final point on this is that the Welsh Government's Access Broadband Cymru provides grants to individuals for the installation costs of new broadband connections for homes, and it's about £800. I'm aware that fibre to the premises connections can be…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I know in the past as a politician, I've called public meetings to grab everybody together with Openreach, BT and so on, and they've worked well. With COVID, we've not even been able to do that. So, there's maybe a cue there.
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Thank you, Chair. From your experience, how empowered do you think people are within these more isolated communities? Because we've almost got to certain schemes, and then it's needed a lead resident, say, to take it forward, and then there's a panic, then…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
I suppose, in terms of parity of access and equality, for me it's about fairness. Some of those 15,000 premises in my constituency are farms, or clusters of three or four houses in some of my most rural and isolated parts. So, I struggle to see how it's fair…
11 Mai 2022 , Climate Change, Environment, and Infrastructure Committee
Cysylltedd digidol yng Nghymru - sesiwn dystiolaeth 1
Diolch, Chair. Ofcom estimates that around 15,000 or 1 per cent of premises cannot get a decent broadband service of at least 10 Mbps download speed from either fixed or fixed wireless networks. Do you agree with me that public money should be used to connect…
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10 Mai 2022 , Cyfarfod Llawn
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