LONDON -- Today, leading fibre network provider Geo Networks Ltd (“Geo”) announced a ground-breaking project with Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN, pronounced barn), a not-for-profit, community-led organisation. Geo will support B4RN in delivering world class internet services to rural areas, like the Forest of Bowland and the Lune Valley, in Lancashire. The effort will see Geo provide vital dark fibre which will link B4RN’s local distribution network to a national peering centre at Manchester Telecity, enabling superfast internet speeds of 1 Gigabit for homes and businesses in the Lancashire region.

B4RN was created to bring superfast broadband to the deepest rural parts of the UK; specifically the last 10% - the areas which are unable to benefit from current Government broadband schemes. With the first phase of the roll out scheduled for the beginning of August this year, this project will eventually enable 2,500 properties, across 350 square kms in Lancashire to access broadband at speeds which are faster than most commercial ISPs can offer anywhere in the UK. Geo’s fibre link to Telecity ensures high capacity and high availability. It removes the bottle necks traditionally associated with shared service offerings to guarantee speed and efficiency of internet services to B4RN’s local distribution network.

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