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UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link

Posted by timothy on from the yes-they-can dept.

MJackson writes "The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) in Humber, a large tidal estuary situated on the east coast of Northern England, has just become one of the UK's most remote-rural locations to have a next generation 100Mbps Fibre Optic FTTH broadband link installed. The deployment is being sponsored by FibreStream and amazingly the groundworks were completed by the lifeboat crew literally digging their own fibre. We'd do the same on our road, but the government would probably object."

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  1. Re:Not lifeguards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lay down fibres?

  2. Re:Off the edge of civilization by Dan541 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wait till some dumbass drops an anchor on it.

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  3. Re:Off the edge of civilization by TeamMCS · · Score: 2, Funny

    RNLI Givuth Life.... ....RNLI Takeuth away :)

  4. Re:To put the stroy in context.... by tpgp · · Score: 4, Funny

    FFS, it is their (owner) and not there (location).

    You picked up that? But missed: You must remember that our national life boar service (RNLI) ?

    Or did you think the RNLI was a pigs-in-trouble type of organisation?

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  5. Re:Not lifeguards by FudRucker · · Score: 3, Funny

    not true

    Lifeguards_in_the_USA

    British_Lifeguard

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  6. Re:Not lifeguards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Secretly cut fibre cables running across the Atlantic in the interests of ' National Security' of Course.