Kent-based VFast, a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP, informs that the quiet rural village of Barham near Canterbury in Kent has now been enabled with a superfast up to 25Mbps broadband connection. The service is delivered from a Central Fibre installed by VFast, thanks to funding obtained from Kent County Council, with the last mile being distributed via a WiMAX wireless broadband link.

Barham is a village and civil parish in the City of Canterbury district of Kent, England. It is situated close to the A2 road between Canterbury and Dover, 7 miles south-east of Canterbury and 7 miles north of Folkestone. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 1,187.


It's understood that the WiMAX class equipment is capable of delivering speeds of 100Mbps to end users when demand increases :cool: . VFast now operates a network covering some 1,000 square miles.