It's been a very busy time for B4RN recently. Apart from some further frenetic expansion around Dolphinholme, Halton, Whittington, Wrayton and the Yealands into Cumbria, they have now strayed deep into "Foreign parts" around Clapham, North Yorkshire.
http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/12867113.Digital_future_looks_rosy_for_Clapham/?ref=fbshrThen HRH Prince Charles really did visit the Westmorland show ground on Wednesday 1 April, - no fooling about ! Exhibits included, amongst others, Dry Stone Walling and B4RN - Broadband for the Rural North's Hyperfast symmetric 1,000 Mbps broadband who are celebrating their 1,000 service connection as well as their millionth £1 share. I was delighted to see how interested HRH the Price of Wales was with the B4RN fibre blowing and fusing demonstration.
B4RN are building the equivalent "Dry Stone Wall" of the digital age. (It's "rock solid" to last for generations without any "Innovative solutions" as it is fully future-proofed with robust diverse-routed symmetric fibre; it's unaffected by water nor electrical noise and without an "Up to" in sight. Businesses can even have their own 10 Gbps symmetric feed if they need it.) The project is already clearly demonstrating Hyperfast Broadband is the only viable solution for so many with impossibly long, less reliable, rural phone lines. There are so many latent possibilities for all types of endeavour as well as maintaining the value of properties and enhancing the prosperity of whole, but sparsely populated, communities. There are even a few remote farms without mains water, gas and electricity. There's plenty of wind though and the new Halton Eco-community even have their own hydro turbine on the Lune.
The picture below is of B4RN's new semi-portable hand blower. It is used for blowing 2f or 4f into premises. It can blow at well over 100 m per
min and can even manage around 50 m without air. The reason I said semi-portable is that it requires an air compressor with either a mains transformer or a portable generator.