Tim
Dwelly and a number of the TDiP team are based in Cornwall, the
emerging 'digital peninsula'. Electronic and web transmission has
removed the time barrier for these professionals, enabling them
to work from anywhere in the UK. That's why they have chosen Cornwall
Important face to face meetings can be part of a project where required.
Tim Dwelly can make one day trips to UK cities with ease, using
train sleeper services or Newquay airport. He regularly meets clients
in UK Cities this way. TDiP photographers will of course travel
to wherever the project requires
Why
Cornwall?
Price
Without city (especially London) overheads and costs, Cornwall based
TDiP team members can offer exceptional value for money
Heritage
Cornwall was in at the start of the communications revolution 130
years ago. The first cable was laid from Porthcurno
to Bombay
in 1870. By 1900 it was the global hub of the Victorian international
communications network.
Seven telecommunications cables still operate out of Porthcurno
today. In 1901 Marconi sent his first transatlantic radio signal
from Poldhu on the Lizard peninsula, also home to Goonhilly
Earth Station, the world's leading satellite centre, receiving
and sending news around the world and broadcasting the World Cup
via satellite links
Future
Cornwall
is fast developing clusters of knowledge, ICT and media businesses
working with national/international clients from a quality of life
setting. New technology made this possible. Today, more fibre optic
cables leave Europe for other continents from Cornwall than any
other place in the EU. Local authorities, notably Penwith
in the west, are supporting Cornwall's new economy as EU Objective
One funds flow into the county
Broadband
news
Main BT exchanges in Cornwall now converted to ADSL with assistance
from EU Objective One funds. A special service called Act
Now offers additional benefits and subsidises a broadband package.
Digital
Peninsula Network
An EU and government backed project to support over 200 knowledge,
creative and ICT businesses in West Cornwall. It offers members
networking meetings, a website and broadband/high end IT equipment.
Members
include web designers, film makers, consultants, journalists, photographers,
designers, translators and many more. It was founded by Tim Dwelly,
who remains a director
As web designer and TDiP team member Greg Dyer puts it: "Cornwall
is simply the best place in the UK to do ground breaking work like
this"
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Surfing
at sunset by TDiP
photographer Steve Tanner
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