Rural focused full fibre broadband ISP Gigaclear has today launched their own Black Friday orientated deal, which offers a special unlimited 200Mbps (symmetric) package for just £20 per month for the first 18 months of service (£47 per month thereafter).
Naturally, you’ll only be able to benefit from this if you’re lucky enough to be covered by one of Gigaclear’s gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) deployments, which exist across various parts of rural England. At present the operator’s network covers around 130,000 premises and they have an ambition to reach 500,000 properties by 2023 (here).
In order to receive this deal, which will only be available to order until 30th November 2020, you’ll need to enter the offer code 200FOR20 during checkout. The package also includes Gigaclear’s Smart Wi-Fi (mesh) router and free installation.
WOW well done Gigaclear.
That’s fantastic for the few that can get Gigaclear. It is very irritating for those of us that have been waiting years for their very delayed builds, and still have no start date (although just as for the past few years it is “soon”).
Tell me about it…they have gone live with a deployment adjacent to my road a few months back so I have been campaigning directly to with Gigaclear to get it extended to my house. That conversation started almost 2 years ago and still not got it.
Tell me about it rormeister! Virgin Media go past my street but we can’t get it – and I am the second house in!. Literally 6M from us to the trench! VM don’t want to know.
Nothing else around here in Linconshire apart from FTTC!
FTTC? USO level ADSL2+ here on an EO line as the only fixed line option.
Incidentally, it appears that you can order the 200Mbps deal even if they don’t have a network built yet – I got as far as the direct debit page before I backed out (I figured it was unlikely that they’d honour the offer – maybe a Black Friday in a few years time?).
Selling for £16.67 a month is a distress move in my view and shows lack of demand.
Yes, I agree. Given that Gigaclear build mostly in places where there is no competition they are not trying to compete with other superfast providers, so they are just trying to increase the number of customers at any cost. Their offer is about the same price as ADSL, but an ADSL deal will include a phone line – so it still may not tempt people to change if they don’t feel the need for a faster connection.
Over time the Altnets are going to have to lower their prices. A 57% discount for Black Friday destroys the credibility of the list price. I’m sure the customer services team will be busy dealing with complaints from customers who have paid the list price.
The previous multi tiered offers expired Oct 30 including Home 300 symmetrical at £29/ 18 months and existing customers out of contract (normally 18 months) were eligible. Many in our village jumped on this including me as I was already on 300 at £45. For most users the inclusive pair of Linksys Velop router/AP’s were a bonus as these are so much better for ac wifi coverage than the original ISP supplied Genexis (which is still retained as modem only in bridge mode to Linksys Velop). Gigaclear confirmed that if not required they can be returned unopened at end of contract if changing in 18 months to whatever contracts are on offer.
I would expect this new offer for Home 200 ( with one Velop router/AP only) will also apply to those customers who remain out of contract.
Perhaps they have a warehouse full of Velops at £70 each under contract with Linksys and need to shift pronto before the next monthly shipment drops? Speculation I know but another driver!