Category: Altnets

The Scottish Government has awarded GoFibre (also known as Borderlink) a Project Gigabit contract which covers 63,000 new premises across North East Scotland. The contract valued at £105m forms part of the UK government project to bring gigabit-capable broadband services to areas where commercial build is more challenging. Rural areas in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus, […]

Ofcom has fined broadband alt-net BRSK £14,000 for two failures in relation to telegraph pole installations in Birmingham, which are used to roll out their full fibre broadband network. Ofcom announced an investigation in to BRSK in 2024 as it believed it had breached its ‘Code Powers’ following a complaint from Birmingham City Council . […]

A resident of Newton Longville has the distinction of being the first resident to have subscribed to a CityFibre full fibre service in Buckinghamshire on a connection delivered as part of the Project Gigabit contract the firm holds. Steve Heath who is retired but does consulting for a car supplier and even builds his own […]

Another part of England has had its primary fibre to the premises rollout from CityFibre completed. This latest area is Havant and nearby places like Westbourne with CityFibre claiming coverage of 98% of homes and businesses in the area. The 98% coverage CityFibre states is some 22,000 premises and when we look at the footprint […]

Freedom Fibre was awarded a BDUK Project Gigabit contract over two years ago for rolling out full fibre broadband to 12,000 premises in North Shropshire, but “due to changes in the external market”, they have indicated they cannot fulfil this contract. Of these 2,500 premises have been built, and a further 1,000 will be live […]

Brackley already had an extensive FTTP footprint from Gigaclear and Swish Fibre and now Openreach is overbuilding these two networks. Brackley already had some Openreach full fibre available in the Radstone Fields area which was new build homes built in 2015 and onwards. After a wait of a few weeks since a reader told us […]

Altnet Wessex Internet have announced they have received a £50 million investment from the National Wealth Fund along with a four Project Gigabit contract from BDUK amounting to £72 million in subsidy, allowing the business to grow their network from 40,000 to 137,000 premises in rural areas. Wessex Internet proudly notes it was the first […]

The timeline for the merging of Giganet, Jurassic Fibre and Swish Fibre into AllPoints Fibre Networks has been a long one, but APFN is finally saying that it has finished the consolidation. “It’s an honour to take APFN into its next phase of trading now that the consolidation plan is complete. Since we launched aquila, […]

Hardwick and Comberton are two areas West of Cambridge that have recently received the CityFibre treatment and it looks likely that most of the footprint in the villages is part of Project Gigabit. Hardwick in particular does have some Openreach full fibre but this is from 2014 and the postcodes and properties that Openreach never […]

The niche broadband altnet Runfibre has made minor updates to its packages which are now reflected in our broadband package search. Runfibre operate a fibre altnet in the area North of Bristol. Key changes are: The company maintains a ‘no mid-contract price increases’ policy and provides UK based support. RunFibre Broadband Deals