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UK ISP County Broadband Raise £46m to Build FTTH in East England

Monday, Jul 16th, 2018 (2:08 pm) - Score 4,647

Alternative network ISP County Broadband has followed last year’s pilot roll-out of a new 1000Mbps (Gigabit) capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) service in the rural Cambridgeshire village of Broughton (here) by securing an investment of £46m with Aviva Investors. Big plans for “full fibre” expansion ahoy!

Traditionally County Broadband has tended to focus more on deploying “superfastFixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks, which they’ve built to deliver services across various villages in Essex, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire (England). Nevertheless last year’s decision to go “full fibre” represented a significant shift in strategy, although at the time there was no indication of how their aspirations might be funded.

The good news is that in June 2018 they were finally able to close a deal with Aviva Investors, which has agreed to inject some £46 million of additional private investment into the provider in order to support their future FTTH roll-out strategy across the East of England. The ISP was supported in its bid for the funding by law firm Bircham Dyson Bell (BDB).

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Lloyd Felton, CEO of County Broadband, said:

“This is a significant moment for County Broadband, as we enter the next phase of our development towards becoming a major network provider in the East of England. Working with BDB was an entirely positive experience. They were right by our side and were pivotal in supporting a multifaceted requirement across all aspects of what at times became a very complex negotiation.”

The ISP has tended to run its affairs in a somewhat low key way (e.g. they haven’t updated their Twitter account since 2017, while the Facebook link on their website is broken and they don’t have a press release page). As a result of that we’re only now finding out about this otherwise major announcement after some digging, which comes roughly a month after it was first officially but quietly confirmed (note: hire a better PR team).

At this stage there isn’t much detail on their deployment plan, although by the sounds of it a lot of the new FTTH/P could be deployed in Essex first and the expansion strategy then makes mention of an aim to reach 30,000 premises (homes and businesses) across the East of England region (no timescale is given). The focus appears to be in poorly served rural areas.

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