Redundancies Strike Alternative UK Broadband Provider Freedom Truespeed

The FreedomTruespeed Group, which is a recently merged (Freedom Fibre and Truespeed) alternative full fibre broadband network that covers a footprint of 430,000 UK premises (RFS) and over 70,000 customers, has confirmed to ISPreview that they’re set to suffer some new redundancies.

The current group is the product of several prior network mergers, many of which have been driven by the same challenges as other alternative networks have been facing over the past few years (i.e. rising build costs, high interest rates and growing competition). Today the network is largely focused on commercialisation of what has already been built.

Over the past few months the newly created group has been busy working to integrate their systems, processes and teams, which also included a customer migration onto one system stack. ISPreview understands that this migration process is now mostly done (expected completion in August 2026).

The fact that the group will no longer need to maintain duplicate systems/teams is thus said to be one of the main reasons why they’ve now informed staff about a fresh round of redundancies.

A spokesperson for the Group told ISPreview:

“The Freedom Truespeed Group, created in early Q2 this year through the merger of Freedom Fibre and Truespeed, has expanded its ultrafast full-fibre network to over 430,000 properties with over 70,000 customers connected. We are now working to streamline the business and this will result in some redundancies as we continue to focus on improving our profitability across Retail and Wholesale Operations”.

At the time of writing it’s unclear how many staff members are expected to be let go in the future, although an exact figure won’t be known until the usual consultations have had a chance to run their course. In the past we’ve often seen Freedom Fibre announce redundancies just prior to a merger, but in this case it appears to be more a result of their post-merger integration work.