Category: Altnets

(please see update below) AllPoints Fibre has agreed to sell off its Cuckoo customer base to Onestream, which will allow the company to focus on its wholesale network and platform, Aquila. Under the terms of the agreement, the customers, brand and domain will all move over to Onestream, with customer connections not changing, and remaining […]

London-focussed Altnet Community Fibre ran their Double the Speed Promotion from 9th April until 6th May (their website still shows this promotion even though it was supposed to expire yesterday as we publish this in the early hours) which provided some stunning deals to get faster services for less money. This offer was exceptional on […]

DIGI across Europe has a reputation for undercutting the competition and its aiming to do the same in the UK with three offerings: We don’t know why the US spelling of Fiber is used throughout the Digi UK site, they use a mixture of fibre and fiber spellings when we on their English version of […]

An additional £3,195,012 has been allocated to the Project Gigabit contract that stretches from Skipton and Holmfirth in the West to Pocklington at its Eastern edge. There are some additions and subtractions from the properties that the contract covers, the end result being a net addition of 2,642 premises in the initial scope of the […]

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 […]