GoFibre Bring Full Fibre Broadband Build to 2 Locations in Fife
Scottish broadband ISP GoFibre (BorderLink), which is partnered with wireless provider Marykirk.com (here), has today added two new locations in Fife to their ongoing rollout of a new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in Scotland.
Founded by CEO, Alex Cacciamani in his hometown of Duns, GoFibre was originally created out of the need to solve Alex’s own broadband problems at home. After moving to the Scottish Borders in 2017 with his wife and three kids, he realised quickly there was a need for faster broadband in these rural areas and set about solving the issue for himself.
GoFibre started building their new full fibre network last year and at the time they expected to cover 10,000 premises in the Angus and South Aberdeenshire areas, with thousands more premises in Montrose, Kelso and Coldstream also forming part of their initial deployment. More recently they’ve also added 12,000 premises across the East Lothian towns of Haddington, Dunbar and North Berwick to their plan (here).
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The operator has already gone live in many of their existing build areas, and they’ve today added two new locations in Fife to their plans – including Burntisland and Cardenden (this reflects about 8,000 local households and businesses).
Alex Cacciamani, GoFibre’s CEO, said:
“We’re delighted to begin our work to connect Burntisland and Cardenden communities to the digital connectivity they need and deserve.
It’s vitally important for our shared future that we eliminate the digital divide across Scotland. Doing so will enable us all to reach our full potential, facilitating business growth and innovation as well as benefiting local communities through seamless connectivity.
We would like to thank everyone for their ongoing patience during the construction phase and we look forward to them enjoying the benefits of full fibre later this year.”
Customers of the new service tend to pay from £36 per month for a 100Mbps package on a 24-month term with an included wireless router, which rises to £69 per month for their top 1000Mbps plan. The latter also comes with a bonus Wi-Fi extender (this can optionally be taken on other plans for just £5 per month extra).
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I would prefer that they get areas they are supposed to be doing done before announcing more. I signed a contract in December last year and they said June this year at the time. Not a sign of them in my town and it’s now July.
Agreed. I signed a contract over a year ago when their sales team were full of promises of it being only a few months until install. Latest update a couple of weeks ago was they expect Stonehaven build to be complete in Feb 2023 now.
Meanwhile Openreach have just started running fibre to our estate. Looks like GoFibre will have been too late to the party.
Just had a mail shot saying go-fibre starting to install ftth in Aberlady