UK Lifeguards Dig Their Own 100Mbps Fiber-Optic Link

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."

Re:Not lifeguards

[Anonymous Coward]

Lay down fibres?

Re:Off the edge of civilization

[Dan541]

Wait till some dumbass drops an anchor on it.

Re:Off the edge of civilization

[TeamMCS]

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

Re:To put the stroy in context....

[tpgp]

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?

Re:Not lifeguards

[FudRucker]

not true

Lifeguards_in_the_USA [geekculture.com]

British_Lifeguard [strangecelebrities.com]

Re:Not lifeguards

[Anonymous Coward]

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