Fibrestream's strategic partnership (NextGenUs) has hailed the success of its latest broadband coverage project in the rural villages of Newton and Stape (two adjoining parishes in deeply rural North Yorkshire). Residents can now benefit from download and upload speeds of up to 10Mbps.

The situation use to be very different, with conventional broadband coverage being effectively non-existent for the majority of the villages 140+ homes and businesses. All that has now changed thanks to a methodology that Fibrestream calls FiWi (Fibre and Wireless).

The NextGenUs FiWi network essentially takes a symmetric (same speed both ways) fixed line fibre-optic direct internet access feed from a school 20km away and runs it over to the villages, from where service is locally distributed using wireless technology.


In addition NextGenUs UK CIC is bound by regulation to reinvest the surplus generated from operating the network. They intend to do that by deploying faster Fibre-to-the-Home ( FTTH ) fibre optic broadband connections to local residents and businesses over the course of 2010.