The Small Business

The Churchmouse in Barbon puts on a diverse offer to survive. It's a village store, delicatessen, cafe and bistro.

Their B4RN connection is another thing they can offer to the local community and visitors.

Jules Natlacen runs it alongside husband, John. She says: "We have people visiting us who have really large files to download and they're not able to download those files on the normal broadband service even though it may be classed as 'hyperfast'.

For our family life, it means that the kids can be doing their homework on laptops all over the house while we are downloading a movie or John and I are working as well. Again, the download speeds don't drop. It's amazing.
"There's a lot of rural areas round here that have really poor Wi-Fi - B4RN hasn't yet reached them. And those areas round here know we can offer that for them and even if they just buy one cup of coffee and sit here for three hours it really doesn't matter.

Gavin And Belinda Second Nature Smallban

Stories from out in the field from our very happy customers

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