Category: Altnets

Altnet AllPoints Fibre (APFN) have announced that Ronan Kelly, current Managing Director, will be leaving the company at the end of May. A new CEO, Mark Walker, has been appointed to take over a CEO from the 1st June. Mark comes with experience at Virtual1 and as the commercial director of TalkTalk’s B2B Wholesale business […]

Lightning Fibre, an Altnet based in Eastbourne and Sussex, has appointed Bertrand Mazieres as its new CEO. He is leaving Openreach following an almost decade-long career there ending in his role as Director. Commercial and Marketing. He will be assuming the role next week. He is taking over from Stefan Stanislawski who was acting CEO […]

Fibrus has conducted research to name the top 10 places to work from home in Northern Ireland and Cumbria. The Remote Working Index they have released today looks at various measures, including average house prices, access to flexible workspaces, transport, green spaces, and, of course, broadband speeds. The town of Limavady in the north west […]

Community Fibre recently re-launched their Double the Speed promotion where select packages have both their download and upload speeds doubles at no extra cost. This promotion is valid to 06/06/2026. “Unlike most other providers, Community Fibre does not ask for proof of income support or government benefits to access the tariff – making it one […]

London-based broadband altnet G.Network has announced that it has appointed new senior leaders to head up the business under the existing CEO and former co-founder, David Sangster. The company that went through the administration process earlier this year and is now running on a debt-free footing under Fitzwalter Capital has made the following appointments: Ed […]

Lenders will take over the broadband altnet Gigaclear after the company has been struggling with its near £1bn of debt. The news from the FT yesterday Gigaclear is a rural fibre altnet across 26 counties in the UK and has 600,000 premises ready for service, and reports around 160,000 customers. The latest from the FT […]

London-focussed Broadband Altnet Community Fibre has re-launched its popular Double the Speed promotion which sees it upgrading its package speeds. These increased speeds will be valid across the 24-month contract period with prices fixed until April 2026 when they go up by £2/month as part of annual prices increases (and £4/month at the end of […]

We are seeing quite a few reports of outages affecting Hyperoptic users in Southeast London including in Lewisham, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Dartford and Northfleet on the Bank Holiday Monday. It appears connectivity has returned, although the outage did seem to last some hours. There are users who report difficulties getting through to Hyperoptic support. In […]

CityFibre announces the launch of its 8.5Gbps product, which it is rolling out across its entire network, allowing customers across the UK access to some of the fastest FTTP products available. The company has been working to roll out 10Gbps XGS-PON technology nationwide across the CityFibre footprint, which reaches over 4.7m premises according to the […]

Altnet full fibre coverage had reached 19.7m premises at the end of 2025 according to INCA’s State of the Altnets report, and they have over 3.5 million live connections. The number of premises passed has grown by 20% year on year, but the number of live connections has grown by 32%. The report points out […]