Category: Altnets

Altnet Gigaclear has announced it has already begun work in Gloucestershire to fulfil its £10.8 million Project Gigabit contract covering subsidies to 3,550 premises (originally 4,400 premises), although commercial rollouts alongside that may add to this considerably. This contract was awarded in February 2024, which does show that planning and logistics from contract award do […]

It’s not unusual for broadband provides to have some packages on offer. Once the offer ends, the package returns to the original price and often another package may be put on offer. It’s quite similar to how carpet stores (or fitted kitchens) always have some carpets on sale, and you’d never want to buy a […]

The Advertising Standard Authority (ASA UK) has published a ruling which upholds a complaint against altnet Community Fibre. The adjudication addresses whether claims about being the number one ISP or best ratings is correct. The ruling is against Community Fibre but it sounds like a pretty good advert for its service. Rather than putting you […]

The broadband provider Briant has its own network that it has built to around 10,000 premises in the area of Lancing, Worthing and Littlehampton, plus they also utilise CityFibre to give them a much larger footprint across the rest of Great Britain. We have carried out an initial run to see where the newly launched […]

Community Fibre have launched a double speed promotion where you get double the usual speed. The promotion runs until 02/11/2025 and includes all 24-month contract packages. This means you can get a 600Mbps service on the 300Mbps package, all symmetric with no setup fee and a free router as usual. In-contract price increases of £2/month […]

With the signifiant investment into putting fibre in the ground, the alternative network operators (Altnets), or more specifically their investors, are keen to get a return on their investment. We have seen Altnets move from a ‘build as quickly as possible’ phase towards take-up in the past couple of years, especially given interest rates and […]

CityFibre has announced its most recent financial results, which show it now has 730,000 customers, with customer connections almost doubling in the last quarter – 108,000 customers were added (around 15% of their total customers). This can somewhat be attributed to the addition of Sky now selling FTTP over the entire CityFibre network. The company […]

Alt-net broadband provider toob has announced that they are launching full-fibre broadband in 33 towns and cities through an expansion of its CityFibre partnership. toob, who operate largely in Hampshire, with some towns in Surrey also included, has had a partnership with CityFibre since 2022, which gives them a much larger customer base. The company […]

Zen Internet have announced today that MS3 Networks will join as a new alt-net partner via the Zen network allowing the ISP to retail Zen fibre broadband to more areas from early next year. The company already has deals with alt-nets CityFibre, Freedom Fibre and Trooli, and recently announced a new partnership with ITS. This […]

Netomnia who by virtue of owning two networks can call themselves the second largest full fibre alt-net in the United Kingdom is refining its brand identity. The branding focuses on the phrase “WHERE THE MOST POWERFUL INTERNET LIVES” which is said to strengthen the previous statement of “a fibre network built for whatever comes next“. […]