Freerunner hots up rural broadband

The company that installs equipment for Wi-Fi hotpsots, Freerunner, is offering local communities the chance to apply for a fund that that could provide certain selected areas with free internet access.

Freerunner has confirmed that it will be providing the equipment to create fifty Wi-Fi access points in various communities around the UK, no matter where they are located.

This pledge comes as a response to the Digital Britain report’s plan to provide the entire UK with a broadband connection of at least 2 Mbps, but the difficult task will be providing a service to areas that currently have no broadband access at all.

Freerunner’s offer to provide fifty communities with free Wi-Fi broadband access will be for a minimum of twelve months, using any technology that is available, which could be satellite or mobile broadband.