As its the last day of the quarter it is time to do some catching up and one of those was tracking down some of the Grain Connect full fibre roll-out, this has seen some new homes in Cockermouth added and areas of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Barrow-in-Furness added to our maps and checkers.
Grain Connect seems to have pricing that varies from area to area with the lowest priced FTTP package being £12/m. Oddly their twitter account @GrainConnect is set up as protected, so only those who follow Grain Connect and have been confirmed can see the companies presence on social media. What is clear from social media though is that the firm is busy building in a number of places and unfortunately its more complaints about the state of tarmac patching, cut gas mains and blocked drives/pavements/roads rather than excitement about getting FTTP or technical issues with the service. These problems with street works are far from unique to Grain Connect but the impression one quickly gets is that the volume is more than we’d expect usually.
The spread out nature of the towns covered makes the roll-out look smaller than if we focused on just one town, and we are certain there is more to be found. If you have Grain Connect the simplest way to let us know about a missing area on our maps is to run a speed test where the combination of speed test, isp and faster than we’d expect speeds will help flag an area for us to subsequently check.
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Hi Broadband Watchers. I feel that the ISP, are not advising Thinkbroadband that they can provide service on the post codes that they have provided service on.
I feel that the speeds showing on the maps the duration could be reduced this would show the higher speeds more noticeable at locating new services.
they offer it to about 10 roads, hardly worth all the effort, these companies should be expanding outwards towards the areas that have poorer speeds, but I 100% bet they claimed a lot of government funding for this.