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URL = http://b4rn.org.uk/ | URL = http://b4rn.org.uk/ | ||
=Description= | ==Description== | ||
"The purpose of the project is to take a new approach to the ownership, financial and deployment models used traditionally, and still proposed by, telecommunications companies. These models invariably leave rural areas outside of the scope of economic viability for the telecoms companies, and have helped to create the Digital Divide between rural and urban Britain." | "The purpose of the project is to take a new approach to the ownership, financial and deployment models used traditionally, and still proposed by, telecommunications companies. These models invariably leave rural areas outside of the scope of economic viability for the telecoms companies, and have helped to create the Digital Divide between rural and urban Britain." | ||
==More Information== | ==More Information== | ||
* [[Community That Built Their Own Gigabit Fibre Network in Rural Lancashire]] | * [[Community That Built Their Own Gigabit Fibre Network in Rural Lancashire]] (video) | ||
* See more at: http://b4rn.org.uk/ | * See more at: http://b4rn.org.uk/ | ||
* [[Guifi Net]] in Barcelona | * [[Guifi Net]] in Barcelona | ||
Revision as of 23:19, 12 February 2017
= B4RN, a community-wide, co-operative, and collaborative initiative
URL = http://b4rn.org.uk/
Description
"The purpose of the project is to take a new approach to the ownership, financial and deployment models used traditionally, and still proposed by, telecommunications companies. These models invariably leave rural areas outside of the scope of economic viability for the telecoms companies, and have helped to create the Digital Divide between rural and urban Britain."
More Information
- Community That Built Their Own Gigabit Fibre Network in Rural Lancashire (video)
- See more at: http://b4rn.org.uk/
- Guifi Net in Barcelona