Back in May 2009, RNLI Humber hosted the visit of the Fibrestream-NextGenUs team and its partners.

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We had set ourselves a challenging mission to accomplish.

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Provide superfast broadband to one of the most remote-rural locations in England.

Spurn Point, located where land, river and sea meet (Yorkshire, Humber and North respectively), where RNLI Humber crew and their families are permanently based, is unsurprisingly an ADSL Notspot.

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Here is the speedtest.net result from the RNLI Crew Facilities using the NextGenUs NGA FiWi Connection

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Said Sean Royce, Commercial & Finance Director, Kingston Communications, on news of the service going live for RNLI Humber:

“Wow!

Those boys deserve that and KC are proud and delighted we could help.

Looks like it proves we can deliver Next Generation Access!

Hopefully more will benefit from our combined efforts.”

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Said Dave “Spanish” Steenvoorden, Cox RNLI Humber:

“It’s Brill!”

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“Together We Are The Network” is the ethos of the wider NextGenUs NGA Testbed of which the RNLI Humber deliverables of superfast broadband form an important part.

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Thanks once again to our partners and project co-sponsors, some anonymous and others named:

• Emtelle
• AFL Telecommunications, a Fujikura business
• Kell Systems
• Kingston Communications
• Steve Medcalf Ltd
• Pharos Films
• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
• Screwfix
• AND the RNLI Humber Crew & kids!!

More news on the Testbed and other developments here at the NextGenUs blog.