Exascale FTTP Broadband Network Goes Live in West Bromwich
Shropshire-based UK ISP Exascale has confirmed that the first customers on their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the large West Midlands market town of West Bromwich have finally started to connect, which follows the start of their local rollout (here) in February 2021.
The new network, which complements the provider’s other builds in Telford and Wrekin (here), has been working to cover 4,000 “underserved” premises in the town. As part of this, they’ve also recently soft launched a new website for their FTTP packages – https://order.exascale.co.uk .
Residential customers can choose packages that start from £32 per month for an unlimited 80Mbps (20Mbps upload) service and that goes up to £75 for their top symmetric speed 900Mbps (average) tier, which currently includes free activation and a Tenda Mesh WiFi router on an 18-month minimum contract term.
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We should point out that Exascale are also planning to deploy their full fibre network into parts of Staffordshire, although they’ve yet to release much information on this.
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That’s one heck of a size of the ONT (when compered to the size of Nokia’s, maybe it comes with the BBU). And its in black, white would have been a better suited colour as it sits along the wall. Just my thoughts.
Does it have a built-in router?
The white cube like box on the flooring looks like a router to me.