Wireless Service Provider FAQ
Where is wireless BB available, and who are the suppliers?
The wireless broadband situation in the UK is patchy at present, and a number of competing systems exist. This list details both commercial and 'not for profit' community type wireless projects.
If you are aware or even running a service in an area and it is not listed, email us on andrew@thinkbroadband.com, be sure to include wireless in the subject, and we will endeavour to add the service to the list.
- 1st Broadband, Penwith in Cornwall
- Accelerate Broadband, Loanhead, Bilston Glen, Gorbridge, Pentlandfield
- Air-Band, Upton Snodsbury, Crowle, Hanley Swan, Upton upon Severn.
- Airzone Broadband, Brentwood, Ongar and surrounding villages
- Buckfastleigh, Devon
- Better Broadband for Britain, Association of Broadband Communities involved in building their own community broadband networks
- Country Broadband, Burbage in Wiltshire, with triggers for other areas.
- Community Mesh, Tunbridge Wells, Buxted, Robertsbridge and Benenden
- Countryside|Broadband, 802.11a wireless in South Oxfordshire, covering Woodcote, Wyfold, Rotherfield Peppard, Moulsford and Cholsey.
- Cotswold Wireless, Covering an area of around 100km, to the North of Swindon.
- dfcommunications, Newburgh in Aberdeenshire and more areas soon.
- Derby Community Wireless Network
- DevilsDyke.net, Poynings, Fulking, Edburton, Henfield, and Cowfold in the South Downs area.
- Eastserve Broadband, covering East Manchester area
- East Tilbury Broadband
- EdenFaster, Eden Valley, Cumbria
- EHotSpots, Basingstoke, Bridlington and Stamford
- Essex Broadband, Basildon
- FDM Broadband, rural communities in Berkshire, Hampshire and Wiltshire
- Feeed, Hastings, St. Leonards and Eastbourne, also Reading
- Highnam Broadband, Gloucestershire
- Hi Wide, Scottish Highlands, rollout for 2004
- IAP.UK.NET, Portishead and Pill area of North Somerset
- Kent Broadband, Ashford
- Kijoma Solutions, services covering parts of Sussex
- Kinetiq Group, Wireless ISP serving South Wales area
- Langreen, covering 50 communities, including North Yorkshire and parts of Wales
- Ledbury Broadband, Herefordshire
- LinkSuffolk & LinkNorfolk, centred around Wetheringsett, Suffolk
- looseconnection, four free Wi-Fi hotspots in Brigton
- Gaia, sveral areas in North Wales
- GXNetworks, Liberty, Tele2, Basingstoke, Guildford, Crystal Palace, Slough, Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Sleaford, Coventry, Leicester and Uxbridge
- LTT Wireless Broadband, coverage Kent, Sussex and Surrey.
- Mesh Broadband Broadband, Chafford Hundred, Hullbridge, Shoebury, Great Wakering, Burnt Mills Estate
- Net Probity, wireless service in the Bexleyheath, Kent.
- Newark Wireless Broadband Internet Service, wireless service in the Nottinghamshire area.
- Netvigator, wireless service in Thames Valley area.
- Node Broadband, Wireless nodes in Gloucestershire, Leicstershire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire.
- Nottinghamshire, Wireless broadband in the county.
- NTR Broadband, Wireless broadband in Northern Ireland.
- Oxfordshire Rural Broadband, providing wireless broadband to the Wychwood forest area of Oxfordshire (Between Chipping Norton and Burford) .
- PierToPier, Brighton beach, between the two piers
- Pipemedia AirDSL, Barlestone, Carlton, Far Coton, Market Bosworth
- Rabbit, The Remote Area Broadband Inclusion Trial
- Red Moon Wireless Broadband, East Anglian wireless provider, services in Harleston, Shotley and Colneis areas.
- Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Borders rural broadband
- Shere Broadband, Farley Green, Peaslake, Shere in Surrey Hills
- Skysurf UK, currently Witham St Hughes, Thorpe On The Hill, near Lincoln
- South Witham Broadband
- SpaceIP, Garboldisham (near Thetford) in Norfolk.
- Telabria, services in South East England.
- TeleGeneration, Wi-Fi services in Preston, Manchester, Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent, and Nottingham city centre.
- UFCnet Ltd, wireless ISP in Scotland.
- UK Broadband, company providing wireless to business parks.
- UK Wireless, covers Preston, and the surrounding area.
- w3z, wireless broadband in Derbyshire
- Weald Broadband, Kent and East Sussex areas of the Weald
- West Haddon, West Haddon and Winwick in rural Northamptonshire
- Wireless Edge Communications
- Wi-Fi Net, Wireless broadband solutions provider
- Wyreless Broadband , Fleetwood, Blackpool, South Shore, North Shore and Layton
- YRFree, Swansea and South Wales area.
- ZyWave Wireless Broadband, ZyWave is currently being installed in Eccleshall, Stafford and throughout Devon.
Note: Some providers may be running trials or 'soon to be available' services. We advise you to check current availability with the service provider.