BBC Radio 4 “You and Yours” B4RN Report
Hacker Public Radio Podcast Interview with Chris Conder
As people who are following the B4RN project will know, there has been a huge amount of media interest in the project lately. In this podcast, Chris Conder is interviewed about all things B4RN. The podcast page also has lots of extra information about our project and is worth checking out.
Read MoreLatest B4RN Coverage on BBC North West
The media interest continues in B4RN with a report on BBC North West. This latest report, which was shown on two separate bulletins, the latter one being slightly longer, features fibre training by B4RN supplier Emtelle. Here is the first report. And here is the latter one, which features Carole Brown from local company, Dalesbred Finest...
Read MoreA B4RN-storming Media Week
It has been, what you might call, a busy week for B4RN with the publication of several B4RN articles, (or B4RN-icles as was suggested the other day. Not sure if that will stick). Most have been posted on our Facebook page but it would be good to consolidate them all into one post. So here they are, or the ones we know about anyway. Let us know if we have missed any. The first one of the latest run was an excellent article in the Mail on Sunday which was a full page spread. Here is the digital version. This article prompted calls from the Daily Telegraph, Sky News, the BBC, Farmers Weekly...
Read MoreNorth Lancashire Residents Make Broadband History
More than 100 North Lancashire residents gathered in a field near Jubilee Tower at Quernmore on Saturday to make internet history. They were all members of the B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) project, a community-led company which is about to install some of the fastest internet connections in the world into homes and businesses in the area. This is being made possible by the residents themselves who are not only investing in the company and paying for fibre cables to be connected to their premises, but are getting out their shovels and digging the trenches the cables will be laid...
Read MorePhase One Core route map
Many people have asked to see where the core route is going, so here is a rough outline of the direction it takes. All the eight parishes are covered by the thirteen routes shaded pink on this map. Work will begin on March 31st 2012 with a ceremonial breaking of the sod. After that the different stages will begin and be joined together prior to being lit, in approximately three months time. There are about 500 businesses and homes on the core who will be connected at this time, and the rest of the routes will start to dig and join up, like a web over the parishes, bringing in the rest of the...
Read MorePress Coverage
Massive amounts of press coverage for the project, including spreads in farming magazines, newspapers and many blogs. We have put many of them here on this page: January 30th, What the Green Bay Packers can teach us about broadband by Craig Settles January 26th: Can the strategy that raised enough money for a new Packers’ stadium finance a rural broadband network? Communities in Vermont USA and rural Lancashire, England, have kicked off efforts. By Craig Settles http://www.dailyyonder.com/score-two-rural-broadband-teams/2012/01/25/3712 On receipt of the “B4RN is...
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