News archive: Press Coverage
November 29th, 2011
Author: Chris Conder
Tags: Bay Radio BBC BrokenTelephone Computer Active Countryside Alliance Eric Ollerenshaw gigabit city ispreview itnews NFU Press Press coverage radio Lancashire Telecompaper Thinkbroadband
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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:
On receipt of the “B4RN is go!!” press release:
“The B4RN project is ambitious. There are few FTTH community owned, built, operated and managed projects in the world; yet those that there are have shown that vision and effort = multimegabit networks that deliver much more to the end users than just numbers”. “Was there ever any doubt?!” James Enck, https://eurotelcoblog.blogspot.com/ Eurotelcoblog
January news:
The B4RN project sheds light on rural broadband problems ia … BroadbandWatcher
Some of you might be acquainted with the non-profit broadband project, also known as B4RN (Broadband for Rural North), which has recently revealed what ...
B4RN Project Launch Video Explains Key Issues for UK Rural …
NEWS B4RN Project Launch Video Explains Key Issues for UK Rural Broadband Provision « ISPreview UK News.
www.ispreview.co.uk/…/b4rn-project-launch-video-explains-k…
GIGABIT INTERNET ACCESS LAUNCHES IN RURAL UK
http://gigabitcity.smckc.com/journal/2012/1/4/gigabit-internet-access-launches-in-rural-uk.html
B4RN project launched « The Final Third First Campaign
B4RN is go!! We have passed the target number of households who want a true broadband connection. Company and share launch was 15th December. …finalthirdfirst.wordpress.com/2011/12/…/b4rn-project-launche…
30th December2011 the year in review
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4955-year-in-review-2011.html
B4RN Expands Community Broadband in Rural England:http://www.muninetworks.org/content/b4rn-expands-community-broadband-rural-england
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16291888
B4RN ends the technology year on a high.
Locally funded broadband on the increase in rural Britainhttp://online-broadband-guide.co.uk/locally-funded-broadband-on-the-increase-in-rural-britain/00835
Audioboo – ‘after the event’ by Brian Condon:After the presentations at the B4RN Launch (mp3)
Audioboo interview with Barry Forde by Brian Condon:Barry talks about B4RN (mp3)
#B4RN Broadband For The Rural North Project Kicks Off http://opticalreflection.com/2011/12/b4rn-broadband-for-the-rural-north-project-kicks-off/
B4rn launches to a full house in Lancaster thinkbroadband.com B4rn launched its share scheme with the aim of raising some £2 million to fund the build of its full fibre to the premisesnetwork covering an initial phase …
DIY fibre broadband BBC NewsThe B4RN project aims to bring 1Gb/s broadband to homes in theTrough of Bowland and the …
At an event in Lancaster this afternoon, the B4RN campaigners, …BBC News
Rural Lancashire Folk Building Their Own Fibre Network Gizmodo UKThe B4RN project needs to raise £1.86min funding to pay for cables and conduits, plus the cost of training up the locals to install the cabling themselves. …
B4RN is potentially the most significant telecoms business of recent times because it could show rural communities worldwide the way to access high speed …br0kent3l3ph0n3.wordpress.com/…/b4rn-raising-gets-off-the-…
B4RN-raising gets off the ground, NFU promises help …
B4RN – Broadband For The Rural North | digital-citizen.co.uk
by brian_condon on December 15th, 2011. Heading to Lancaster and the launch of “B4RN” an innovative project in bringing FTTH to the people, by the people. …digital-citizen.co.uk/wordpress/?p=1433 Tweetreach report for #B4RN click here thanks Brian (Condon)
The offical Bay Radio report11th December
Interview on Radio Oxford, audioboo:Rural broadband and #barn on bbc radio Oxford (mp3)
B4RN community broadband project to launch internet service provider ComputerActive.co.ukThe Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN) community broadband initiative is to formally launch as an internet service provider (ISP) on 15 December. …
Rural Lancashire fibre broadband project set to proceed Telecompaper The B4RN (Broadband 4 the Rural North), community initiative set up to initially set up a super-fast, fibre-optic (FTTH) broadband network across eight …
FTTH B4RN-raising in a fortnight « Br0kenTeleph0n3 B4RN (Broadband 4 the Rural North) already has 700 of the 622 home owners needed for the project to break even. At this rate, the project will quickly recover …br0kent3l3ph0n3.wordpress.com/…/ftth-b4rn-raising-in-a-fort…
Project Moves Toward Rollout of 1Gbps Broadband in …NEWS B4RN Project Moves Toward Rollout of 1Gbps Broadband in Lancashire UK « ISPreview UK News.www.ispreview.co.uk/…/b4rn-project-moves-toward-rollout-o…B4RN hits min threshold for launch – 1Gbps Hyperfast #FTTP …
It’s pleasing to note that B4RN (Broadband For the Rural North) has received enough expressions of interest for the founders to launch the company and move …www.trefor.net/…/b4rn-hits-min-threshold-for-launch-1gbps-h…
November news:
http://www.cable.co.uk/news/b4rn-rural-lancs-broadband-scheme-seeks-community-help-801213953/
How fibre can go to our rural communities: click here
Radio Lancashire
OCTOBER news:
Gigabitcity blog:
WHY FIBER CONNECTIONS NEED TO GO TO OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES
Lancaster Guardian news report about b4rn featuring Barry Forde
Audioboo 5 minute interview about landlords and tennants. By John Popham
August news:
B4rn interview with Sean McGinty on Radio Lancashire (8mins audio) http://tinyurl.com/43dnuec
Farmers Guardian – Community owned high-speed rural broadband project
B4rn deploying 1 gigabit to Lancashire – Whistleout blog:
http://www.whistleout.co.uk/blog/b4rn-deploying-1gbps-to-lancashire
Britons crowd source gigabit fibre to rural north
http://www.itnews.com.au/News/267428,britons-crowdsource-gigabit-fibre-to-rural-north.aspx
1 gbps fibre network to rural parishes in Lancashire
Rural communities still struggling for broadband answers by PC Pro
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/broadband/369349/rural-communities-still-struggling-for-broadband-answers
Rural communities in the North embark on possibly the most ambitious community project yet.
http://www.ewhurst-broadband.org.uk/?p=1380
B4RN wants to bring customer-owned Gigabit to Lancashire: http://telcommunicator.blogspot.com/2011/08/b4rn-wants-to-bring-customer-owned.html
USwitch get the zeros wrong… but another useful article:
Rural Campaigners Launch B4RN to Deploy 1Gbps Broadband in Lancashire UK
B4RN storms rural broadband market with 1Gbps symmetic FTTH
5tth – FibrevolutionLaunched! B4RN Broadband 4 Rural North B4RN JFDI FTTH – this is real community at work – not Big Society FTTP
Eric Ollerenshaw in parliament speaking about the project -needs silverlight to play on your computer-click here
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