WightFibre Connect 25,000th FTTP Broadband User on Isle of Wight
Broadband ISP WightFibre, which is building their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire (England), has revealed that their full fibre network now covers 72,000 premises (87% of the island) and they’ve just connected their 25,000th customer to it.
On June 18th, 2025, Noemi Pataki of Ryde officially became the provider’s 25,000th customer. To celebrate this special occasion, Noemi received a brand new laptop and mobile phone, presented personally by their Residential Sales Advisor, Matthew Lovett, who assisted her in signing up.
The operator currently expects to have invested around £110m by 2030 as part of their ongoing “Gigabit Island” project, which is presently aiming to extend their full fibre network to reach 90% coverage by the end of 2025 and then 96% Coverage by the end of 2027 (c.80,000+ premises).
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John Irvine, WightFibre CEO, said:
“Reaching 25,000 customers is a testament to the trust the people of the Isle of Wight place in us to deliver an essential service, and I want to say thank you to each and every one of them for their continued support. Our future-proof full-fibre network, now reaching over 72,000 homes and businesses, is combined with a dedication to customer service that truly sets us apart.”
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Great level of take up. Looks like Openreach are their only competition and they are substantially behind in their build. Shows the importance of being first mover.
Openreach doesn’t have the advanced P2P network as WightFibre but EE TV will offer Pay TV superior (meaning a hybrid Freeview/IPTV service) to WightFibre’s Netgem TV. Both provide VoIP via their hubs with existing analogue handsets. Let’s see what happens.