I've seen emails mentioning it, no contact however. Great that you will try and get in touch with them. Reminds me also of that Welsh community which took Internet connectivity into their own hands (https://bit.ly/2lG75Hq). One topic to learn about is related to the transit contracts -- maybe on a case by case basis (depending on location), or a bulk contract with a single transit provider etc. Offering Gbit/s (is this bidirectional?) at the edge needs big transit "pipes". Also interesting is to talk about the UK's "gigabit broadband voucher scheme" and how this helps their initiative. fraternal regards --c.a. On 27/06/2018 16:47, Steve Song wrote:

Are they aware of this list? It will be great to invite them to share and participate. ———— Sylvia Cadena | APNIC Foundation - Head of Programs | sylvia@apnic.net<mailto:sylvia@apnic.net> | http://www.apnic.foundation<http://www.apnic.foundation/> ISIF Asia, WSIS Champion on International Cooperation 2018 | http://www.isif.asia<http://www.isif.asia/> | FB ISIF.asia | @ISIF_Asia | G+ ISIFAsia | 6 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101 Australia<x-apple-data-detectors://5> | PO Box 3646 | +10 GMT | skypeID: sylviacadena | Tel: +61 7 3858 3100<tel:+61%207%203858%203100> | Fax: +61 7 3858 3199<tel:3858%203199> * Love trees. Print only if necessary. On 29 Jun 2018, at 4:06 am, Leandro Navarro <leandro@pangea.org<mailto:leandro@pangea.org>> wrote: Hi, On 28/6/18 05:33, Carlos Afonso wrote: I've seen emails mentioning it, no contact however. Great that you will try and get in touch with them. Reminds me also of that Welsh community which took Internet connectivity into their own hands (https://bit.ly/2lG75Hq). I've sent Steve the contacts in B4RN privately. Anyway they use the support group email that appears in the web as contact :-) One topic to learn about is related to the transit contracts -- maybe on a case by case basis (depending on location), or a bulk contract with a single transit provider etc. Offering Gbit/s (is this bidirectional?) Yes, they offer 1Gbps bidir, and a few 10 Gbps for companies/orgs. at the edge needs big transit "pipes". The pipes do not need to be that huge, aggregation helps. If I remember well, they have fibre to an IX in Manchester where they get connectivity with carriers, and last year they were in the process of leasing dark fibre to reach Edinburgh (probably in another IX) for redundancy. Also interesting is to talk about the UK's "gigabit broadband voucher scheme" and how this helps their initiative. It was the topic of a discussion in a recent INCA meeting that I didn't attend. As usual, vouchers/subsidies can have a supporting or distorting effect, depending of the rules/conditions + uncertainty if things take time to deliver or are intelligently designed to favor large national operators (a big elephant coming ...). B4RN seems to be doing very good in terms of community investment, so probably these vouchers can't add anything visible to it, but shake the environment ... Warm regards, Leandro. fraternal regards --c.a. On 27/06/2018 16:47, Steve Song wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a good contact at B4RN? I will be in the UK for a couple of days in July would like to visit them. Thanks... Steve Song _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:DC3@listas.altermundi.net> https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3 _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:DC3@listas.altermundi.net> https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3 _______________________________________________ DC3 mailing list DC3@listas.altermundi.net<mailto:DC3@listas.altermundi.net> https://listas.altermundi.net/mailman/listinfo/dc3

The list is open, so there's no obstacle to invite them. Go ahead! On June 29, 2018 10:10:58 AM GMT-03:00, Carlos Afonso &lt;ca(a)cafonso.ca&gt; wrote: