BeeBu now selling full fibre via MS3 network

One of the new retail ISP has partnered up with MS3 to increase the number of locations where it can offer a full fibre service. BeeBu is consuming wholesale services from MS3 who are best known for building in the old KCOM areas of Hull as well as North Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire.

We’re thrilled to work with MS3 Networks, delivering fibre network connectivity to homes around Hull, Grimsby and Scunthorpe with great value home broadband and pro-grade routers, all supported by our excellent customer service.

Right from the initial conversations with BeeBu, we knew they were approaching the broadband market differently” says Sam Hales, Business Development Director at MS3 Networks. “They are ambitious about connecting homes nationwide and are focused on providing competitive prices and great customer service. We’re excited to work with them across our rapidly growing network and look forward to connecting homes with Beebu.

Kamilla Beal, Marketing Director at BeeBu

MS3 is on a journey aiming to expand its network to cover 500,000 properties and as far as we can tell their current footprint is around the 190,000 premises mark. So a lot of expansion work is due.

On BeeBu they also sell Vodafone wholesale services (i.e. Openreach full-fibre), CityFibre and while this has been described to us as national there are a number of single provider exclusive areas where BeeBu is not available. Additional alt-nets are Full Fibre Ltd, Freedom Fibre and F&W networks and of course MS3 announced today. This gives a marketable footprint well in excess of 14 million properties, so it will be with interest to see their products which they say are revolutionary fare.

BeeBu also sell VDSL2 and we’ve raised this with them before, but seen as they are pushing for higher visibility it is our duty to highlight an issue around the FTTC/VDSL2 products. BeeBu offer products with speeds of up to 40 Mbps download and up to 10 Mbps upload when other providers use the more correct 7 to 14 Mbps based on a location we’ve just checked to see if they’ve updated their sales offers. In short they are using up to speeds that should have vanished years ago, and also are not giving an average speed indication as soon as possible once a visitor has entered their address. Other things that are good to see before sharing contact details are information on the length of the contract and whether there are price rises in the minimum term etc.