An essential element of any complete local broadband plan is providing affordable access to Digital Services to the real outliers.
The folks living on upland farms for example, beyond the theoretical benefits of Copper the Home (FttC).
Rather than putting up with sub USC speeds delivered by unfit for purpose ADSL, and with no prospect of getting anything better in the next decade, Wennet CIC, a small community Fi:Wi network, with a little help from NextGenus UK CIC, have tapped into a flowing digital village pump in Lancashire and started to spread those bits parish-wide and beyond.
Although some of the subscribers are in Cumbria and Yorkshire, with none of them able get any ADSL at all, only dial up, real internet access has no boundaries.
The folks living on upland farms for example, beyond the theoretical benefits of Copper the Home (FttC).
Rather than putting up with sub USC speeds delivered by unfit for purpose ADSL, and with no prospect of getting anything better in the next decade, Wennet CIC, a small community Fi:Wi network, with a little help from NextGenus UK CIC, have tapped into a flowing digital village pump in Lancashire and started to spread those bits parish-wide and beyond.
Although some of the subscribers are in Cumbria and Yorkshire, with none of them able get any ADSL at all, only dial up, real internet access has no boundaries.
A great example of JFDI in action and a major step forwards in rural Lancashire that shows how through community action we can find better ways to deliver broadband.
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