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Having high-speed broadband will "improve the facilities for the station a hundredfold", Steenvoorden said.
"We do everything now through the internet — defect reporting, training etc," he said. "To have a faster connection is going to make that so much better for us. The crew members live at the station with our families.
"To be able to videoconference with family, send emails, video, stuff like that, will be a vast improvement on what we've got. The kids on the station are always moaning about connection speed.
"It's a project that has been done completely for free. As a charity, that's pretty awesome."
Talkback
Bloody brilliant :D fantastic way to tackling broadband issues that involve small rural community's it just goes to show that the likes of big corporate companies operate on a fad basis, and they should hang there heads in shame!
I hope that all the companies involved documented the way on how they where able to do this, as so to lay precedence on a how to basis for others to follow the fine example put into practice here.
Win!
I think BT should get out of the telecoms market. The advertising hype does not seem to meet the reality.
Bills go up, service quality reduces. Users are now forced to fund the infrastructure through an additional phone bill tax. Next BT will be expecting us to pay more for the improved service which our taxes provide!
I get the same. BT are a load of rubbish when it comes to installing broadband outside their catchment area. I live 1 mile from the local exchange and still cannot get more than 1.2 MB broadband. I have tried switching providers who promise the earth and still get the same crappy download speed, and I live 3 miles from the center of Manchester!
They never run out of excuses for providing poor services.
I'd love to hear BT's response to this story.
Why did they want/need broadband?
In an emergencey, quick access to detailed maps, weather conditions, other emergenty services etc. can quite easily literally save lives.
Such access can also drive down admin costs of a grossly undefunded organisation.
However, it doesn't help support bankers pensions so I guess it's not very important.