The UK farmer who built her own broadband Because sometimes ordinary people just go out and solve their own problems to the benefit of a whole community. It's people like these who make a positive impact within communities. You can either protest to a local council, or otherwise you can go raise funds and get your hands dirty to achieve something quicker. "I'm just a farmer's wife," says Christine Conder, modestly. But for 2,300 members of the rural communities of Lancashire she is also a revolutionary internet pioneer. Her DIY solution to a neighbour's internet connectivity problems in 2009 has evolved into B4RN, an internet service provider offering fast one gigabit per second broadband speeds to the parishes which nestle in the picturesque Lune Valley. That is 35 times faster than the 28.9 Mbps average UK speed internet connection according to Ofcom. See http://ift.tt/2hmQS8D
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