Category: Altnets

Wholesale alt-net CityFibre has released its full-year results to date ending 31st December 2025, and it shows the company has now exceeded 20% penetration across its consumer FTTP footprint. The company has confirmed that with £2.3bn of financing agreed during the year, they have a renewed ambition to consolidate the sector and extend their services […]

Following recent reports of lenders circling around Gigaclear, Point Topic have looked into the business case for potential acquirers of Gigaclear within the altnet space, identifying three potential suitors. Firstly to set some context, here’s the Largest Full-Fibre Networks chart from our State of Broadband Report from September 2025 (next iteration due in April): This […]

Back in the day of ADSL where your broadband (and telephone) service terminated at the telephone exchange, you’d find that even during a power cut, your phone line would continue working as long as you had an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to power your router (and of course using a computer/device with batteries). This was […]

CityFibre has announced that it has expanded the availability of its business FTTP broadband service to now cover its entire ready-for-service network footprint. This means businesses, small or home offices, and home workers can now get access to symmetrical products with speeds up to 2.5Gbps. Previously, symmetric business products were only available to the business […]

Broadband alt-net Gigaclear is likely to be taken over by its creditors, Natwest, Lloyds and the National Wealth Fund (formerly the UK Investment Bank), according to news reported by the FT. The news comes after the company failed to generate interest from potential buyers following its plans to sell the company to help reduce its […]

Grain Connect has published the news that its rolling out in Sheffield and by using our roadwork map you can see that the first areas look like they will be in the Crookes area of the City. The Grain Connect roadworks are concentrated currently on an area of the City that already has extensive Openreach […]

Netgem have announced that Voneus is the latest alt-net to launch the PLEIO entertainment system over their broadband service. PLEIO is an entertainment platform that brings together normal live TV with streaming service apps, cloud gaming and on-demand content. The small puck-shaped device connects to the TV and also allows users to forgo the use […]

Nuneaton is the latest town to be announced that it will receive fibre broadband from Grain. The company is just shy of 265,000 premises past ready for service according to our tracking, and our telecoms roadworks tracking suggests that the Stockingford area of Nuneaton is the area that is currently being built. Openreach FTTP is […]

Troubled G.network who was bought by Fitzwalter Capital a week ago has filed appoint insolvency practitioners which could see G.network vanish and stranded assets left in the ground across London. The FT has announced the move towards insolvency which is clearly bad news for employees and not just senior management who Fitzwalter Capital had already […]

Netomnia brands YouFibre and Brsk will merge together and operate under YouFibre brand going forwards. The two altnets have been operating together since Brsk and Netomnia merged their businesses in 2024, creating an alt-net with around 1.47 million premises ready for service based on our data at the time. Current data we track shows them […]