New UK ISP YouFibre Connect First FTTP Broadband Customers

Alternative “full fibre” ISP YouFibre, which a few months ago started their first gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network roll-out in the small Durham (England) town of Peterlee (here), has just recently followed that by welcoming the first of several live customers.

We still know very little about this provider, although their network build is being handled by Netomnia (here) and Jeremy Chelot is the sole Director of both companies. The provider generally focuses upon homes and businesses in “predominantly suburban areas” and aspires to cover 1 million premises by the end of 2022, then 3 million by 2025 (i.e. focusing on locations where FTTP has yet to be built).

The Peterlee deployment is a key test since Virgin Media are currently conducting a much larger FTTP roll-out along the coastal side of the town, although YouFibre is also understood to be working in some other locations too but we haven’t been able to confirm those.. yet.

Otherwise prices tend to start from £20 per month (discounted from £22) for an unlimited 50Mbps (symmetric) speed and that goes up to just £30 (discounted from £50) for their top 900Mbps+ tier on a 12 month term (or there’s a 30 day term, without the discount). By the looks of it their first subscriber (few details are provided) took their middle 150Mbps tier (£25) and the following speedtest was conducted via WiFi (oddly their ping under FTTP is worse than it was under FTTC before).

Speedtest.net Before vs After YouFibre

Mind you it might have been wiser for YouFibre to remember the social distancing rules before presenting that bottle of wine.