Home » UK ISP News Archive » Article Tag: B4RN (126 Posts)

Articles for Category Tag - B4RN

B4RN Secure Finance from Triodos Bank UK to Expand Rural 10Gbps Broadband

13th November, 2025 (11 Comments)

Broadband ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community built and supported network that has so far deployed their 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) lines to cover 30,000 rural premises in England, has announced that they’ve secured new finance from Triodos Bank UK to help expand their network into the North East of England.

B4RN Welcomes 15,000th Customer to Rural FTTP Broadband Network

3rd September, 2025 (3 Comments)

Alternative rural broadband ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community benefit society that has so far built their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 30,000 premises across England, has today announced that they’ve just connected their 15,000th customer (up from 14,000 a year ago).

Free Book Released About B4RN’s Rural UK Community FTTP Broadband Project

4th July, 2025 (3 Comments)

A new book has popped up for free online that charts the fascinating history and progress of rural broadband ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community benefit society that has so far built their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 30,000 premises across England (c.15,000 customers).

fibre optic cables and computer keyboard 2020 123rf

Bosses of B4RN, MS3 and Quickline Give Update on UK Broadband Builds

30th April, 2025 (0 Comments)

The CEO of ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has today shared three recent interviews with the bosses of several alternative network providers, including B4RN (Tom Rigg), MS3 (Guy Miller) and Quickline (Sean Royce). Each provides a useful progress update on their efforts to deploy full fibre (FTTP) broadband across different parts of the UK.

Cumbria Overbuild Questions Raised Over Fibrus and B4RN’s Broadband Networks

20th December, 2024 (21 Comments)

Residents in the rural Cumbria (England) villages of Kirkoswald and Great Salkeld, which previously worked with local ISP B4RN to build a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network (partly funded by government vouchers), have been left puzzled after Fibrus started building a similar network in the same area under a publicly funded Project Gigabit contract.

The Cumbria UK Villages Still Fighting for Gigabit Broadband

29th November, 2024 (21 Comments)

A year and a half has now passed since the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron (Lib Dem), highlighted the connectivity limbo (here) that several villages in Cumbria – including Ormside, Warcop, Hilton, and Murton – had been left in by the Government’s Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) programme. But locals have just been asked to wait a little bit longer.

B4RN Extend Connect+ to Help Broadband Users Escape an Existing Contract

8th November, 2024 (0 Comments)

UK ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community benefit society that has deployed a 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network to 25,000 premises across rural parts of England (inc. 13,000+ customers), have improved their Connect+ promotion in order to help consumers escape their existing contracts early.

B4RN Get £100k to Bring FTTP Broadband Deeper into Ribble Valley UPDATE

28th October, 2024 (3 Comments)

Rural UK broadband ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community benefit society that has deployed their 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) network to 25,000 premises across England (inc. 13,000+ customers), has secured new grant funding to help them reach more villages in Lancashire’s Ribble Valley area.

B4RN-CEO-Tom-Rigg-and-Zen-Internet-CEO-Richard-Tang

New CEO of Rural UK Full Fibre Broadband ISP B4RN Shuns Wholesale

2nd September, 2024 (3 Comments)

The newly appointed CEO, Tom Rigg, of rural focused full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP B4RN has told Richard Tang, the boss of Zen Internet, in a new interview that their network now passes 27,000 premises in rural areas and is home to almost 14,000 customers. But they have no plans to “split everything off and then try and go wholesale” with the network.

Tom Rigg and Michael Lee Standing Next to B4RN Cabinet

Rural 10Gbps UK Broadband ISP B4RN Promotes Tom Rigg to CEO

8th August, 2024 (1 Comment)

Rural focused UK broadband network B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which is a community benefit ISP that has rolled out their 10Gbps FTTP network to 25,000 premises across England (inc. 13,000+ customers), has announced that existing CEO Michael Lee is to step down on 1st September 2024 and be replaced by Tom Rigg.

B4RN Join UK Gov Charter to Protect Vulnerable Home Phone Users

5th August, 2024 (0 Comments)

Rural focused alternative UK broadband network B4RN, which is a community benefit ISP that has rolled out a 10Gbps speed full fibre network to 25,000 premises (inc. 13,000+ customers), has joined the government’s charter for protecting vulnerable people from harm during the upgrade to digital (IP / VoIP based) phone lines.

B4RN Expand 10Gbps Rural Home Broadband Network in North East

11th June, 2024 (2 Comments)

Community UK ISP B4RN (Broadband 4 the Rural North), which typically works with volunteers inside rural villages across England to help deploy their 10Gbp speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has officially begun the next phase of their expansion – taking them further into Northumberland and County Durham.

B4RN Celebrates UK Project HALO Network Upgrade with Video

6th February, 2024 (0 Comments)

Community broadband ISP B4RN, which typically works with volunteers inside rural villages to deploy their new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of England, has today celebrated the effective completion of their resilient 400Gbps ring network across the North of England by uploading a new video of their work.

B4RN Laying Fibre in Snowy Field - Official Twitter

Wind Farm Grant Extends B4RN’s Barrasford FTTP Broadband Build

24th January, 2024 (2 Comments)

Community ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 has been working with volunteers to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, has secured a key grant of £66,000 from the Ray Wind Farm to help their network extend across more of the Barrasford area in Northumberland.

Broadband ISP B4RN Extends FTTP to 25,000 Rural UK Premises

9th December, 2023 (37 Comments)

Community internet provider B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 has been working with volunteers inside villages to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre (FTTP) network across rural parts of England, have revealed that they now cover 25k premises (up from 20k in early 2022) and 13k customers (up from 9,000).

Rural Broadband ISP B4RN Upgrade to 400Gbps UK Core Network

12th July, 2023 (16 Comments)

Fibre optic builder and ISP B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 have been working with community volunteers to roll out a 10Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of England, has confirmed that they will upgrade their core network to 400G in order to make it future-proof through 2030.

MP Tim Farron Calls on Gov to Probe U-Turn on B4RN’s Cumbria FTTP Build

20th June, 2023 (11 Comments)

The Liberal Democrat MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, Tim Farron, has once again gone to bat for UK broadband ISP B4RN after the Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency unexpectedly pulled the rug out from under one of their rural gigabit voucher based full fibre builds in Cumbria (i.e. the project for Warcop, Sandford, Coupland Beck, Bleatarn and Ormside).