{"id":36499,"date":"2023-12-09T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T00:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=36499"},"modified":"2023-12-07T15:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T15:36:40","slug":"broadband-isp-b4rn-extends-fttp-to-25000-rural-uk-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/12\/broadband-isp-b4rn-extends-fttp-to-25000-rural-uk-premises.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband ISP B4RN Extends FTTP to 25,000 Rural UK Premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community internet provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\">B4RN<\/a> (Broadband for the Rural North), which since 2011 has been working with volunteers inside villages to deploy a new 10Gbps full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) 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).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ISP remains somewhat of a rarity because they\u2019re a registered <strong>Community Benefit Society<\/strong> (i.e. they can\u2019t be bought by a commercial operator and profits are distributed back into the community) and one that focuses on building networks for some of the country&#8217;s most challenging remote rural homes and businesses &#8211; locations that commercial providers would normally find unviable.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\">B4RN<\/a>&#8217;s network exists in parts of Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumbria, Northumberland, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Yorkshire. Customers pay from \u00a333 a month for their 1Gbps package (plus a \u00a360 setup fee payable over 12-months) or \u00a3150 for 10Gbps (\u00a3360 setup). A 1Gbps \u00a315 social tariff also exists.<\/div>\n<p>Originally, the majority of their network was funded by communities investing in the company through shares, and many of those did that while also helping to physically build the new fibre infrastructure (e.g. volunteers on soft digs through fields). But they&#8217;ve also since established their own civil engineers and have been harnessing millions of pounds worth of government gigabit vouchers and community investment loans to fuel their efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The community build approach, as well as the fact that they&#8217;re often deploying into otherwise poorly served areas, is a big part of the reason why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\">B4RN<\/a> has achieved such a consistently high take-up rate (currently 52%). The approach also makes it easier for B4RN to reach favourable (often free) wayleave agreements with local landowners.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it hasn&#8217;t always been plain sailing for B4RN, and the last couple of years have been particularly tedious due to disruptions in the Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gbvs\" target=\"_blank\">Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/mp-tim-farron-calls-on-gov-to-probe-u-turn-on-b4rns-cumbria-fttp-build.html\">example<\/a>), which has impacted a fair few operators &#8211; both big and small alike. As a result, the ISP has moved their internal targets away from chasing a set rate of new connections a month, and instead are &#8220;<em>focused on ensuring that each new community project is fully sustainable in its own right<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The accounts for the financial year 22\/23 show the network cost as <strong>\u00a329,286,098<\/strong> and the value (cost less depreciation at 4%) as \u00a324,954,081. This helps to underline that while B4RN may appear like a smaller network when you only look at premises passed, this does rather overlook that the geographic size of their network &#8211; stretching as it does across a good deal of wide open rural areas &#8211; is actually huge (over 2,300km2 of fibre) and cost a lot to build.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Michael Lee, B4RN&#8217;s CEO, told ISPreview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course the \u2018real\u2019 value of the network isn\u2019t what it cost to build, and when being compared to other networks we\u2019d like to emphasise that the vast majority of our network is sub-surface in B4RN built and owned infrastructure. We also run two dedicated fibres to every property in the community, direct from the cabinet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At this point it&#8217;s worth highlighting that B4RN have this year also begun to upgrade their core network to 400G (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/07\/rural-broadband-isp-b4rn-upgrade-to-400gbps-uk-core-network.html\">here<\/a>) &#8211; delivering up to 16TB worth of traffic in the backbone network &#8211; in order to make it future-proof through to 2030 (aka &#8211; <strong>Project HALO<\/strong>). The project aims to support 400G in the rural core network with new Dark Fibre extending about 650km, creating a ring around the north of the UK between Manchester, Newcastle and Leeds (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/07\/rural-broadband-isp-b4rn-upgrade-to-400gbps-uk-core-network.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The provider has now informed us that this new core network is just starting to go live (they&#8217;ve installed their first 400GB transmission device and 4.8Tb core backbone router into the network) and the process will be ramped-up further during early 2024. B4RN is using the latest kit from Norwegian firm <strong>Smartoptics<\/strong> to support this work and they&#8217;re partnering with the Dark Fibre network supplier <strong>Zayo<\/strong> to support the new backbone.<\/p>\n<p>One other statistic that&#8217;s worth highlighting is with respect to the number of community sites that B4RN have been able to connect to their broadband network, for free. A total of 249 community sites have now been connected to gigabit speeds in this way and that includes around 44 primary schools.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, this year also saw B4RN launch their own VoIP based phone product &#8211;<strong> B4RN Voice<\/strong>, which costs from \u00a39 per month (\u00a34.50 as a social tariff) and replaces their previous arrangement with Vonage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[146,56],"class_list":["post-36499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-b4rn","tag-fttp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/111547528530804791","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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