Full Fibre

Homes managed by Swindon Borough Council will be among the first connected to CityFibre’s £40m rollout in the town following a blanket agreement that helps negotiates wayleaves.

Freedom Fibre’s activity in the north west will enter Shropshire in Spring 2022 with Whitchurch, Wem and Prees set to join the altnet’s £5m gigabit-capable network.

CityFibre has begun work in the town of March to construct a £5m full fibre network.

G.Network has hired current TfL CFO Simon Kilonback to leverage his financial and infrastructural expertise.

Borderlink, which trades as GoFibre, has received a further £164m investment from Gresham House to accelerate its full fibre rollout in Scotland and the north of England.

A local broadband project in Powys will receive £900k of funding from the Welsh Government’s Local Broadband Fund.

Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors.

Toob’s FTTP rollout in the south west has been given an £87.5m funding boost by Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund.