Our minimum shareholding in B4RN is £100, and that is too much for some people, and we have been asked if we could allow smaller donations. We had a think, and we put a donate button on the site where you can donate anything you like, from a pound or a dollar to a million…<p>
Then, during a conversation with Ken Fallon on a radio podcast the idea of sponsorship was born. The plan so far, is that for a donation of £5 you can sponsor a metre of our fibre duct. In return we put your name on a metre of duct and take a photo of it. Your metre of the B4RN network with your name on it will be buried on a Lancashire upland farm for posterity, and your generosity will enable another metre to be laid in our community network.

Getting high-speed internet to the rural north, literally a metre at a time. What's really needed is for Ed Vaizey to change the ludicrous charging tariff on fibre so it's economic to lay and light it.

Thousands of people across East Yorkshire will benefit from some of the fastest broadband in Britain. Hull telecoms provider KC has revealed new fibre cables will provide 15,000 homes and businesses with "lightning fast" broadband.

It has so far only been trialled in 350 homes in Woodmansey and the Great Thornton Street area of west Hull. The average top speed currently provided by KC's internet provider Karoo is ten megabits per second. But the new network offers speeds of up to 100 megabits per second.

This allows users to download a music album in just two seconds, an hour-long television show in 31 seconds and a high-definition film in one to two minutes.

What we really want is a way to <em>watch</em> a film in two minutes. Now that would be an advance in technology.

"Here you can find lists showing the estimated availability dates for exchanges up and down the country, and details of how to get super-fast broadband. If you can't see your exchange on any of the lists keep checking as they are updated regularly and are the single source of information about our national roll out."<br />
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Would it have *killed* you to have an RSS feed, BT?