ISP Zzoomm Extend Gigabit Broadband to Ascot and Sunninghill

Homes and businesses in the semi-rural Berkshire (England) civil parish of Sunninghill and Ascot, which is home to around 13,000 people, have been announced as the next in line to benefit from UK ISP Zzoomm’s rollout of a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network.

At present the provider has all but completed their first build in the Oxfordshire town of Henley-on-Thames (c.6,800 premises) and they’ve recently moved to start deploying across the Herefordshire (England) city of Hereford (c.28,000 premises). In-between all that they have also managed to secure an “initial” investment of £100 million from Oaktree Capital Management to fuel their future expansion (here).

The next location to benefit has today been confirmed as Ascot and Sunninghill in Berkshire, which is due to see Zzoomm’s rollout kicking off this summer 2021. The aim will be to cover around 9,000 premises within the community and it doesn’t look as if they’ll have any major gigabit-capable competitors to fend off against (yet).

All of this should help to support the provider’s longer-term ambition to cover 1 million UK homes by 2025, although they’ll need to raise a lot more investment to reach that level of network availability.

Matthew Hare, Zzoomm’s Chief Executive, said:

“The commencement of our network roll out in Ascot and Sunninghill marks the opening of a new exciting chapter for residents, visitors and businesses in the area. The people of these world famous towns have been stuck with old fashioned copper broadband for too long, which doesn’t suit their style.

We’re going to transform their experience with Zzoomm’s Full Fibre network and bring this exciting town onto the world stage with world beating speeds and service. With Zzoomm, Ascot and Sunninghill are backing a winner that will lead from the front in terms of network development, customer service, incredible speeds and network capacity for all to work, play and relax better than ever before.”

Residential customers typically pay from £29 per month for a 100Mbps package and that goes up to £99 if you want their top 2Gbps tier, which also happens to be one of the fastest home packages available.