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The CANdo series of books and articles on community broadband
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JFDI Community Broadband: Wennington
This book details a rural wireless broadband initiative carried out by a group of small businesses and dedicated volunteers in order to bring 21st century communications to their community.
Broadband is SO important to businesses today, and this community was out of reach of the incumbent telco, BT, and alternatives eg satellite. As a broadband notspot, stuck on dial up Internet connections, they set to and provided their own affordable broadband telecommunications network using wireless infrastructure and available expertise.
Wennet, Lancashire, UK now reaches more than 40 users, and the effects are felt throughout the community - businesses, families and individuals.
Print: $28.13
Download: $10.04
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JFDI Community Broadband: South Witham
The second in the series of JFDI books which outline the struggle to bridge the digital divide in many rural areas of this green and pleasant land. This award-winning community wireless network uses cutting edge technology to deliver a competitive, affordable broadband service to South Witham and surrounding villages. This includes mesh, as well as the ADSL bonding solution that BT Wholesale have recently adopted. Once again, community networks lead the broadband way with innovation at grassroots showing the telcos how it can be done.
SWBB is a community initiative and in the words of Vince Lombardi:
"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work". And maybe if more people JFDI like SWBB have, we would all have some decent broadband...
Print: $28.95
Download: $11.34
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