KCOM Extends Full Fibre Broadband to North Newbald Village

Hull-based UK ISP KCOM has just added the East Yorkshire village of North Newbald, near Market Weighton, to their on-going deployment of 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology. The move came after local residents campaigned for the provider not to overlook their community.

At present the operator is busy investing a further £100m to help extend their “full fibre” network to cover “tens of thousands more homes and businesses” across both East Yorkshire and also North Lincolnshire. So far they’ve already reached Driffield, Market Weighton, Nafferton and Howden and will also soon be entering Pocklington, Hornsea, Goole and Withernsea. More towns and villages are due to be named shortly.

The village of North Newbald wasn’t mentioned on KCOM’s original announcement, but they have now added the location and expect to complete the deployment within just two weeks. In fairness it probably doesn’t hurt that the community is quite large for a village and sits roughly between Hull and Market Weighton.

KCOM’s CEO, Dale Raneberg, said:

“We’re delighted to have started work to bring all the benefits of full fibre broadband to North Newbald and I would like to thank everyone from the local community who worked with us to make this happen.

We brought the installation work forward because we saw how enthusiastic local residents were for full fibre broadband and how desperately they needed it, especially during these days when so many people are working from home.

I know many of the villagers who called on KCOM to bring our full fibre network to North Newbald have struggled on low speeds and unreliable connections for a long time, but now hopefully our ultrafast Lightstream broadband will transform the way they are able to both work and relax online.”

The new network will overbuild Openreach’s existing, albeit significantly slower and less reliable, Fibre-to-the-Cabinet (FTTC) service in the area.