How We Build

Our Approach at B4RN: A Collaborative and Structured Process

At B4RN, we carefully plan each project, working closely with volunteers to ensure a robust and sustainable broadband network. When a new community wants to connect, we ask them to raise investment and secure support, alongside government funding from DSIT. With local volunteers and landowners, we establish routes, lay 16mm ducts, and blow fibre optic cables through them.

We install a secure ‘node’ cabinet at a community hub, connected to the wider network for added resilience. Further ducts and junction boxes, called ‘bullets’, are laid to every property requesting service. Once the fibre is blown and spliced, properties can go live.

Thanks to fibre's immense bandwidth capacity and our expert network design, our network expansion is seamless, with no compromise to speed or quality.

We break our process into four phases: Feasibility, Development, Delivery, and Infill.

Phases

Feasibility

We’re assessing demand in your local area and planning how to connect you.

Development

We’re confirming demand in your local area and securing funding from grants and investment. B4RN planners are working with local volunteers and landowners to develop detailed plans to get your community connected.

Delivery

We’re currently building B4RN network infrastructure in your local area and working to connect customers! You might have seen orange ducting and fibre being installed, or our green cabinet landing in your village.

Infill

The B4RN network is live in your local area. We will try to connect you as quickly as possible, but further engineering or construction works may be required, depending on the status of your property.

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Stories from out in the field from our very happy customers

One residential customer in Over Kellet used to know whether it was worth firing up her computer by looking out of her front window to see what the weather was doing with her telephone line.