Rural UK ISP Truespeed Launch Faster FTTP Broadband Plans

Fibre optic ISP Truespeed, which is deploying a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South West England, has today introduced a series of new packages that, among other things, push the provider’s top median average speeds to 900Mbps (gigabit class).

Until now the provider has been somewhat more cautious with their package line-up and tended to focus on offering residential customers a symmetrical 200Mbps package with unlimited usage from £47.50 per month. This is fine, but it wasn’t keeping pace with the gigabit solutions being offered by the vast majority of their “full fibre” peers.

The good news is that they’ve today launched a slew of new plans, which have clearly been designed to cater for both those customers who demand the best speeds, as well as those who only need a basic, albeit more affordable, service. The provider is also making a pledge of “no in-contract price rises” or “hidden costs.”

All of Truespeed’s packages offer customers “guaranteed and symmetrical upload/download speeds,” as well as an 18-month contract term, unlimited usage, an included wireless router, a VoIP phone service and free installation (Government vouchers allowing).

Truespeed 900Mbps – £69.99 per month

Truespeed 500Mbps – £59.99 per month.

Truespeed 350Mbps – £49.99 per month

Truespeed 200Mbps – £47.50 per month.

Truespeed 80Mbps – £29.99 per month

A bespoke 10Gbps service is also possible for businesses.

Evan Wienburg, Truespeed CEO, said:

“We’ve launched these new packages to provide consumers with more choice. With plans from 80Gbps to 900Mbps there is now a package to suit every one of our growing band of customers – from small households through to avid gamers, boxset streamers, large families and busy home workers.”

Otherwise the provider, which is being supported by an investment of £75m from Aviva Investors (here), currently aims to cover 75,000 premises in parts of rural South West England by the end of 2021 and, until recently, they also held an ambition of reaching 200,000 by around 2025 (i.e. a demand-led deployment where 30% of a community usually needs to sign-up first).

However, we note from Truespeed’s recently updated “our story” page that they now proclaim to be “well on track to fulfil our ambitious target to reach 500,000 properties within the next five years” (i.e. by the end of 2025), which highlights a much grander aspiration. So far, the operator has deployed to 200 communities and most of those have been in the Somerset area (most recently including the City of Wells).