Category: Altnets

Scottish broadband altnet GoFibre has announced it has completed the Project Gigabit rollout across Teesdale in Countr Durham. This contract with around £6.6m was awarded to Borderlink/GoFibre in September 2022 and includes over 4,000 Project Gigabit funded premises across 8,100 total premises now able to receive full fibre broadband services. A very small number of […]

The existing Truespeed CEO James Lowther who has been with the company since 2021 is stepping down at the end of the year with the role being filled by the current Chief Commercial Officer Nelson Missier. “I would like to thank James for leading us to a strong position with significant customer and financial growth […]

Wessex Internet was awarded the Project Gigabit contract for North Dorset back in August 2022 and now three years later they have completed the full fibre rollout to some 6,490 premises. The contract was one of the first to be awarded so makes sense for it to be one of the first to complete. The […]

Triodos Bank has announced that it has agreed a new funding package with alt-net B4RN (Broadband for the Rural North) to allow it to expand further into the North East, with a focus on areas around Northumberland and the County Durham border. In 2019 Triodos helped B4RN raise 3.3m, which was used to support fibre […]

A couple of weeks ago the Financial Times reported a potential acquisition of Netomnia by Virgin Media O2 and mentioned that CityFibre were also in discussions with the business. We reported what this meant in terms of numbers from our data, but we wanted to look a bit deeper into the statistics and what it […]

Altnet Quickline has announced today that it has improved its business broadband packages. The company is now offering 200Mbps, 500Mbps and 1Gbps symmetric broadband packages with a fixed IP address and a specified SLA – two working days for a fix if any issues occur. “Rural businesses are the backbone of local economies, and we’re […]

Following Gigaclear’s statement this morning calling on Openreach to work with altnets, the Independent Networks’ Co-operatives Association (INCA) has issued a statement along similar lines. Openreach’s problem isn’t regulation – it’s competition. Nearly a million customers a year are choosing Altnets over the tired old network operator because they offer better products, better value, and […]

Rural broadband builder Gigaclear has responded to recent comments from Openreach (which suggest they may revisit their target of connecting 30 million premises to full fibre may be at risk), flying the alternative network operator flag and warning that the most rural of areas are still struggling with getting full fibre broadband. Gigaclear wants Openreach […]

Freedom Fibre was awarded a Project Gigabit contract in mid-2023 covering North Shropshire, but they pulled out of this in June 2025 having delivered less than a third of the 12,000 promised premises. Shropshire Council has written to the Government expressing concern about what they call unacceptable delays following termination of Freedom Fibre’s ‘Project Gigabyte’ […]

Scottish Fibre altnet GoFibre has agreed with Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) to de-scope some premises from its Project Gigabit contract in Teesdale/Durham (Lot 4). The company was awarded Project Gigabit contracts spanning North Northumberland, Teesdale, Borders & East Lothian (Scotland) and North East Scotland with the latter being substantially larger at £105m. than the others. […]