B4RN

B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) is a professionally designed independent fibre optic broadband network. They’re a registered as a non-profit community benefit society and run by a dedicated local team with the support of landowners and volunteers.

When coverage wasn’t available to them they decided to build the infrastructure they needed themselves and create a community owned and oriented company.

It started in 2011 as a community initiative to bring self-installation fiber broadband to eight parishes. The ducts now run over 2,000 miles of cable, connecting nearly 40 parishes with internet speeds as high as 1 gigabit per second, well above the UK’s average 28.9 megabits per second. It’s very affordable at £30 per month and with the knowledge that all profits are reinvested back into the company, it’s money well spent.