Category: Altnets

The Project Gigabit contract for East and West Sussex awarded to CityFibre has seen in the last week some new areas appear with full fibre now available to order. The villages of Clapham, Patching and Polling now have their first full fibre service available. Looking at the future roadworks in the area Arundel, Warningcamp, Wepham […]

It is official the old dormant Swish Fibre, Giganet and Jurassic Fibre footprints that became AllPoints Fibre Networks are now available for wholesale access. The launch is a bit confusing as the APFN on-net full fibre footprint has been showing as available via retailers like Olilo for a while now, the key maybe is that […]

No new applications for a Gigabit Broadband Voucher (GBVS) are being accepted now, with the scheme set to close in 18 months time on 31st March 2028. Existing projects that are underway will continue, so if your area is has a project up and running it will hopefully complete with delivering of a Gigabit capable […]

Scunthorpe residents on some streets now have another Gigabit broadband option to add to the existing Openreach, MS3 and Virgin Media services. Grain Connect has been spotted live in a number of streets in the Crosby area of the town, and hopefully will surface in more streets over the coming weeks and months. Pricing for […]

We recently became aware that broadband provider Exascale and Squirrel Internet have ceased offering new services over Altnet Gigaclear’s network which spans quite a wide area of suburban and rural South of England. This follows reports of Gigaclear’s retail business undercutting its wholesale prices when customers look to migrate away from its direct services over […]

Ofcom has opened a consultation around code powers with a list of 12 firms who have asked for their code powers to be revoked and further six where Ofcom is proposing to remove code powers. The consultation for anyone who has reasons to disagree with what Ofcom is proposing is open until close of office […]

The latest altnet on our broadband maps is Go Internet who until recently was just offering a fixed wireless service but in the village of Chale they now offer full fibre. The Isle of Wight is no stranger to full fibre, as both Openreach and Wight Fibre are deploying on the island, but the most […]

An error by the Welsh Government led to the contract announcement for a £10 million broadband contract omitting Broadband 4 Wales Ltd (BB4W Ltd). A change notice has been issued correcting this. The Contract 2 Lot 2 that aims to deliver broadband speeds of at least 30 Mbps to areas of under 1,000 premises is […]

GoFibre who are based in Scotland and are busy building full fibre both commercially and as part of its Project Gigabit contracts has announced a milestone for the town of Eyemouth in the Scottish Borders. It is saying it has connected over 1,000 customers to its full fibre network in Eyemouth. Update 11:12am We originally […]

A summary of news pieces that may be of interest from the last week. Octopus Investment reported in advanced talks to buy PXC from TalkTalk Sky News reports that TalkTalk advisers are planning to enter advanced talks with Octopus about buying PlatformX Communications (PXC). Sky is linking this to Fern Trading, which is managed by […]