Sponsor a Metre?
Special for Valentines day, sponsor a metre for your sweetheart and get your message on the duct! Update: our first sponsor photos are here – the livestream of the first names is here During a conversation with Ken Fallon on a radio podcast the idea of sponsorship was born. The plan so far, is that for a donation of £5 you can sponsor a metre of our fibre duct. In return we put your name on a metre of duct and take a photo of it. Your metre of the B4RN network with your name on it will be buried on a Lancashire upland farm for posterity, and your generosity will enable another metre to...
Read MoreJoining on a house
Last week Bruce took photos of an installation to a house. This house has dug to the field boundary, and under the fence, and into the main duct. As you can see from the short video from his photos it is hard work but no harder than planting potatoes! If you get the fibre planted you will harvest a fantastic crop… its a gigabit fibre bringing the world to your door.
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 in....
Read MorePhotos from dig launch
Congratulations! Thank you to all who came to the launch of the fibre dig yesterday, it was fantastic to see you all, and thank you to John Popham for livestreaming it to the world. Link here if you want to watch a snippet of the mayor Woody digging the first sod, followed by the digger driven by the farmer John Metcalfe starting the first channel to lay the duct. Link here to photos by Martyn link here to photos by Walter link here to photos by Chris link here to video of Barry and Woody’s short speeches filmed with a phone and a wibe connection and streamed live. by Mike link...
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