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Broadband boosts brewery Fine ales, good times and great WiFi – it’s been a winning formula for the team at Bluntrock Brewery after Wildanet pulled out the stops to get them connected in time for their grand opening. Bluntrock Brewery, co-founders Hugo Roads and George Collins were desperate to get internet connectivity after setting up their business in St Minver Lowlands, near Wadebridge, in 2021. They opened their nanobrewery and taproom in a set of two converted 40ft shipping containers in August, after months of planning and hard graft. The final, and unexpectedly difficult, hurdle was setting up a decent internet connection, essential for taking card payments, running
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their CCTV system, taking online orders and organising social media marketing campaigns. With their grand opening approaching, and having been let down by another internet provider, George and Hugo turned to Wildanet for help. “We didn’t have any internet up here at all,” says George, Bluntrock’s brewer. “We were relying on phone hotspots to run the tills and do the sales transactions, which is not ideal when you’re trying to get signal through a shipping container. “It was going to be really difficult to set up with the other provider and we thought we had a date for installation but they never turned up. “That was the week we were opening and we
still hadn’t got any proper Wi-Fi. We’d been let down and we needed to have a solution in place because running the opening night with just the hotspots on our phone was just not going to work.” A friend recommended Wildanet because the company had been able to connect his business ‘in an-out-of-the-way spot’ in Cornwall, which didn’t have any fibre network. Wildanet prides itself on being responsive and finding solutions for businesses, including deploying the latest wireless technology to provide superfast broadband direct to homes and businesses in rural areas where fibre isn’t available. For George and Hugo, it was the perfect solution.
