Category: Altnets

The Fibrus Networks Ltd rollout in Cumbria started in November 2022 and has hit a big milestone on the way to delivering full fibre to some 140,000 premises by the end of the financial year 25/26. Cumbria is formed from two different council areas now, Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness and looking at our footprint […]

Following their 500Mbps for £20/month promotion which expired last week, Community Fibre have launched a new broader offer offering six months’ free broadband service. This new offer is valid until 21 August 2025 and is available on both 12- and 24-month contracts, although packages vary between these (although we see them offered widely across products) […]

ITS who are a business broadband network operator has teamed up with AssetHUB so that altnets can easily see where ITS has dark fibre assets and access these via the AssetHUB marketplace. Infrastructure sharing has the potential to reduce the amount of digging and poles that go on with full fibre rollouts, so it is […]

The 1st of August is Yorkshire Day so an appropriate point to celebrate the success of Quickline more than doubling its first footprint target in the North Yorkshire Project Gigabit contract. Quickline was contracted to deliver Gigabit connectivity using full fibre to 866 premises by the end of June 2025 and that was surpassed and […]

Wolverhampton is the latest CityFibre urban area to see its primary build marked as complete. This means that its unlikely CityFibre will be rolling out to new large areas of Wolverhampton, but any more roll-out will be in areas where wayleaves have delayed the build, or other issues that will see individual or small clusters […]

Ofcom have fined fibre broadband provider Gigaclear £122,500 for failures in providing location data to emergency services. Ofcom Regulations known as ‘General Conditions A3.5 and A3.6(a)’ require providers to provide accurate location information for all calls to emergency phone numbers where possible, particularly for fixed location based services such as phone lines. Ofcom’s investigation found […]

GoFibre is over halfway through bringing its full fibre service to Witton-le-Wear in County Durham, with 150 properties able to access the network already. A further 118 premises are expected to go live in the followings weeks and before the end of August 2025. A celebration to mark completion of the work is due on […]

A digital inclusion charity in Cambridge has been awarded a grant from CityFibre to help with their Digital Inclusion work to deliver local support to those who suffer from digital poverty in the region. Cambridge Online has already helped 1,500 people, offering services such as access to Internet devices, safe learning spaces and classroom training. […]

With a footprint of 2.56 million premises ready for service an increase of 243,000 in the last 3 months Netomnia is laying claim to being the second largest alt-net behind CityFibre. The Q2 2025 results are out for Netomnia who are better known by the retail brands YouFibre and brsk. The long term take-up rate […]

Kirriemuir in Angus has a large amount of GoFibre fibre to the premises covering the small town and as they celebrate their 500th customer we believe that represents a take-up rate of around 20%. The celebrations are being used as an opportunity for a community event on 25th July 2025, between 10am and 12:30pm held […]