New green boxes to signal the way to a digital future

Starts to bring superfast broadband to many firms

by More companies in Peterborough can access superfast broadband and business support to help them lift off into a digital future. Connecting Cambridgeshire has unveiled the first Peterborough cabinet to go live with high speed fibre broadband under the roll-out programme.

The cabinets are i n the Newark and Hampton areas with more than 60 still to be installed providing high speed technology to thousands of homes and businesses that would not have access under existing commercial plans.

A Connecting Cambridgeshire spokesman said it had secured an extra £4.5 million of government and European funding to set up the Destination Digital project, offering businesses free support and grants of up to £4,000 to con- tribute towards the cost of broadband connectivity and digital services and products.

Cllr Marco Cereste, leader of Peterborough City Council said: “Broadband is an essential part of life these days and that’s why we have been working hard with partners to improve speeds in the area.” The first place to look would be any shareholder agreement that you have. For the purposes of this answer I am assuming there is no shareholders agreement, in which case you should look at the company’s articles of association for how a director can be removed. The standard articles provided by the Companies Act say that there must be a resolution passed by more than 50% of the shareholders of the company. A copy of the resolution must

Cllr David Seaton, Bill Murphy, of BT Next Generation Access, and Mathew Shuter, Cambridgeshire County Council cabinet member for Enterprise, with one of the new fibre broadband boxes.