Netomnia Add 3 New Towns and Villages to UK Full Fibre Rollout
Network builder Netomnia, which is being supported by UK broadband ISP partner YouFibre, has today confirmed that their 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network is being extended to cover homes and businesses in the three towns and villages of Oldham, Dalton in Furness and Doddington.
The operator, which has so far secured £418 million in funding and already covers over 130,000 UK premises across various towns (estimated build rate of 15,000 premises per month), currently aims to reach 1 million UK homes and businesses by the end of 2023.
The good news is that Netomnia has just confirmed three new builds as part of this deployment. The first will see them invest £2.25m to cover 7,500 premises in Doddington (Cambridgeshire), which will be built by the Opal Group (civil engineering contractor). On top of that, they’re investing £4m to reach 13,000 premises in Dalton-in-Furness (Cumbria), with the help of contractor MJ Quinn.
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Finally, Netomnia has also invested £21m to cover 71,000 premises across the large town of Oldham in the Greater Manchester area – supported by contractor O’Connor Utilities. As usual, the operator will face competition from gigabit-capable broadband rivals in some of the areas they’re targeting, which is partly why they’ve priced their service so aggressively.
The service itself is typically supplied to consumers via UK ISP partner YouFibre, which offers unlimited usage, symmetrical speeds, a Wi-Fi router, free installation and 24/7 UK based support. Customers pay from just £17 per month on an 18-month term (£22 thereafter) for their unlimited 50Mbps package, which rises to £34 if you want their top 900Mbps plan (£50 thereafter).
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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I hope this ISP will come and save the day for me, being dropped from Openreach’s deployment plans. Netomnia have added my town (Bedford) but if you put in any post code it says they’e got no plans for my area, and the telephone staff are like no we’re not fitting it in your area.
So I have hope, but not much. Putting a dot on a map, means nothing unfortunately.
These clowns are going along the same lines as Cable and wireless years ago. Guy i know has a pole on his drive and they thought they could dig up his drive without even asking permission. And even then made a complete mess of reinstating it and after many months of complaints, has still no been resolved.
But did he get FTTP??
Where was this?
Anyone want to open a book on this being a pole being put on a dropped kerb and the ‘guy’ thinking that because the kerb is dropped that makes the pavement his drive?
People need to stop complaining, Netomnia are doing more than most other AltNets.
“People need to stop complaining”.
Is this not a complaint?
Nope, it was in his drive and no FTTP is not even available to him. And for the record, they pulled up a load of brick edgings and cut the 12 month old tarmac. He came home to find them even parked on his drive!
Major error by the contractors there which I would hope they’ve sorted.
Shouldn’t be touching brick. The tarmac is standard but obviously not private grounds.
Have a shared drive myself that has easements for utilities. Wouldn’t be overjoyed if they, unlawfully, cut up the drive outside of that easement.
Thanks for the explanation, Paul.
They are currently building here but in the south east of the town and I’m in the north west. Its all very concentrated there for now so it remains to be seen if they get to me.
I don’t want to ring and be told no so I’ll hold on for now! Out of the 140,000 homes in the town they at coming to around 70,000 so some will definitely miss out.
The area they are currently doing have Virgin at nearly every address but not Openreach fttp yet, so maybe that’s their strategy. I have Virgin in abundance but not my street and about four others and also no Openreach only the fringe new builds just outside. Interesting to see what happens.
I’m kind of hoping Openreach come first as it’s planned and I’ve just signed a new 24 month contract. Hard to resist a faster connection when you can’t have it due to being in contract which is the main issue with how this whole thing is deployed. No date from any provider means you can’t plan!
That’s why I’ve saddled up with cuckoo on a 1 month FTTC contract. So can jump at the earliest opportunity to eho ever comes first.
Netomnia contractor (Opal Group) are in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire installing infrastructure before moving on to Doddington some 5 miles away, I was told that Chatteris go live date is October 2022, I’m blogging progress in Chatteris here – https://www.chatteris.biz/blog/netomnia-full-fibre-broadband-chatteris/