Netomnia Add 4 UK Towns and Villages to Full Fibre Rollout

Network builder Netomnia – supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre – has today added four new towns in England and Scotland to their national rollout of a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network, which includes Mansfield, Purfleet, Bedford and Coatbridge.

The operator, which has already secured a total of £418m in funding for the national project and now covers over 130,000 UK premises across various towns (estimated build rate of 15,000 premises per month), currently aims to reach 1 million UK homes and businesses by the end of 2023.

Looking closer at the latest editions, Netomnia will invest £22.5m to reach 75,000 premises in Bedford (Bedfordshire) with the help of local civil engineering contractor Opals Group. As for the Mansfield (Nottinghamshire) build, they will spend £22.2m to reach 74,000 premises with the help of network build partner Map Group.

Next up, we come to Purfleet (Essex), where the operator and civils partner GNS Communications will invest £16.8m to cover 56,000 premises. Finally, Coatbridge in North Lanarkshire will see an investment of £26m to reach 87,500 premises – the operator’s fifth rollout location in Scotland. We should add that a lot of these deployments will also catch premises in the surrounding areas.

The service itself is typically supplied to consumers via UK ISP partner YouFibre, which offers unlimited usage, symmetrical speeds, a Wi-Fi router, free installation and 24/7 UK based support. Customers pay from just £22 per month on an 18-month term for their unlimited 50Mbps package, which rises to £45 if you want their top 900Mbps plan (£50 thereafter).

As we’ve said before, Netomnia appears to be an operator that is quite comfortable building in areas where several gigabit-capable rivals are already playing. The company likes to build fast and be aggressively competitive on price, with the goal of getting people online sooner and peeling them away from more established rivals.