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100’s of local businesses are taking the oppurtunity to gain a £3000 government-funded grant to help upgrade the quality and speeds of their broadband! This means this is the perfect time to join Deep Blue! The grant will effectively pay the installation costs or the upgrading of your connection to a limit of £3000! As an approved service provider for the scheme, check out our latest offers on superfast broadband and other telecoms services!

Technology has come a long way over the last 3 decades which excites me for the future. Britain’s first mobile phone call was made thirty years ago this year! Michael Harrison, the son of former Vodafone Chairman Sir Ernest Harrison, was the first to make a call calling his father at midnight on 1 January, 1985.

Harrison made the historic call using a Transportable Vodafone VT1, which weighed around 5kg and had around 30-minutes of talk time.

Imagine having to carry 5kg in your pocket everywhere instead of the lightweight mobiles we use today! Luckily, making a call these days is a lot easier.. Phew!

Mobiles are now not only for calls and SMS messages, they are now used for Emails, Video Conferencing, VoIP calls, and things such as the “app store” have changed the was we use and think about what our mobiles can do.

What will the next thirty years bring? Who knows! One thing is for sure, mobile technology is now so firmly embedded into our business culture we will never work in the same way again.

Here’s to the next 30 years!

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Since the second week of December, Scotland, particularly the highlands and islands have experienced widespread damage from extreme weather. Telephone lines have been hit by lightning strikes in some places running at over 100 an hour with lines being hit multiple times.

As a result fault reports in Scotland have risen from an average of 1600 to 2000 reports to 7000! A UK equivalent fault report would be 83000 incidences. Openreach engineers have been deployed to restore services in these truly dreadful conditions. With severe weather also forecast to hit several other areas of the UK we will keep you updated on any impact this has on provision lead times and repair times.

Our offices will close at midday on

        Wednesday 24th December 2014

        and re-open on

       Monday 5th January 2015.

 Emergency cover will be available on 0333 240 9100.

May we wish everyone a Happy Christmas and a Prosperous New Year.

As usual we are not sending cards but continue to support our chosen charity

Martin House Children’s Hospice.

As the leaves fall, the breeze stiffens and the downpours begin, the following areas are already affected by “matters beyond our reasonable control” repair restrictions:

Cardiff

Swansea

North Wales

and

Truro.

We have received country wide reports of customers experiencing problems making and receiving calls, this is a major network issue and is being worked on by the engineers.

Unfortunately there is no estimated time for repair at this moment………..so please watch this space for updates. Latest update, services are being restored gradually, but it may take the rest of the working day to be fully resolved.