ISP Be Broadband has announced that they will be supplying Freerunner, a free public Wi-Fi service, with FREE broadband for local communities that are currently without existing connections. 46 communities have been selected across the UK to receive free WiFi for a minimum of 3 years regardless of the current connectivity in the area.


The communities were selected as part of a competition launched by in September 2009 by Freerunner, which we covered HERE. Freerunner is using BE Broadband alongside other technologies to connect underserved or remote communities that desperately need access to the internet.

Freerunner bases its service off open source technology and uses a distributed network architecture; no data centres and therefore no single point of failure ensuring greater reliability and low operating costs.