Kent based UK ISP Trooli Build FTTP Broadband to 50k Premises

Full fibre ISP Trooli (CallFlow), which is currently building their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across rural parts of Kent, Hampshire and East Sussex in England, has hit a new milestone after their deployment covered 50,000 premises (up from 26,000 in June 2020).

The milestone has been achieved two months ahead of the company’s previously stated ambition for the end of 2020. In less than six months, Trooli has tripled the amount of cabling laid, from 200km in June to 680km at the start of November 2020, while ramping up its build rate to pass more than 5,000 premises a month (up from 3,000 earlier this year), with that figure set to increase even further over the course of the winter.

The provider currently aims to continue their roll-out in order to reach 150,000 premises (homes and businesses) by the middle of 2022 and then 500,000 by the end of 2024. All of this is being supported by funding worth €30m from the Connecting Europe Broadband Fund (here) and, more recently, £5m via a senior facility agreement with NatWest Bank (here).

The latest areas to go live across Trooli’s network include Uckfield, Crowborough, Darenth, Hoo, Farningham and Eynsford.

Andy Conibere, CEO of Trooli, said:

“This has been a year of rapid growth and change for Trooli, and we have significantly expanded both our network and customer base as demand for our reliable, ultrafast, full fibre network continues to grow.

Since January we have increased our number of homes passed from 10,500 to 50,000, raised an additional £5m in funding from NatWest, laid hundreds of kilometres of cabling and successfully crossed the county boundary to take our network to an underserved market in East Sussex.

Over the same period we have continued to deliver an extremely high quality of service as reflected by a continued ‘excellent’ rating by our customers on Trustpilot.

We are confident that demand for ultrafast broadband is only going to increase. It is rightly seen by the government as essential 21st century infrastructure and the experience of lockdown has accelerated demand from both business and private customers.”

By our reckoning the provider’s rapid pace of deployment makes them one of the fastest growing alternative network (AltNet) providers of their size in the United Kingdom, which is “trooli” impressive (sorry.. I had to). The company has also grown substantially, with staff positions more than doubling from 57 in January to the current count of 116.

Trooli’s broadband packages tend to cost from £50 inc. VAT per month for an unlimited 300Mbps service and this rises to £80 for 900Mbps+. However, the ISP will still need to raise significantly more investment to achieve that ambition of 500,000 premises, but at this rate that shouldn’t be too difficult.

As a special Black Friday discount, new customers are currently only being asked to pay £25 per month for the first three months of service on their 300Mbps tier or £30 and £40 for the others.