ISP iDNET Joins FullFibre Ltd’s UK Gigabit Broadband Network

Popular UK residential and business ISP iDNET has today confirmed that they’ll soon be selling broadband packages via FullFibre Limited‘s (Fibre Heroes) new network, which looks set to complement the services that they already offer via both Openreach (BT) and CityFibre’s respective national infrastructure.

FullFibre, which is being backed by infrastructure fund Basalt, currently aims to reach “at least” 500,000 UK premises with their new network by 2025. So far most of their builds have focused on towns in parts of Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

All of this should be a good complement to iDNET’s existing services via Openreach and CityFibre. The addition of a familiar provider like iDNET, which is an ISP with a strong and well-established reputation for quality, will no doubt also benefit FullFibre’s new infrastructure via stronger take-up and recognition.

IDNet’s Co-Founder and Director, Tim Davies, said:

“Partnering with FullFibre is the next step for us at IDNet. Being able to reach customers that we previously deemed unreachable is the obvious benefit from this partnership, but moreover their expertise and support was immediately clear from our initial conversations.

We’re extremely excited for this partnership.”

FullFibre’s Head of Wholesale, Matt Baker, said:

“FullFibre is really pleased to be able to announce our partnership with IDNet. It is really exciting times from both a roll out perspective but also connecting customers. IDNet share a common passion for improving the internet services for communities and we are really looking forward to serving both Business and Residential customers with them.”

At the time of writing, we couldn’t see any new FullFibre-based packages being listed on iDNET’s website, although the small print does confirm that they exist and will come attached to a lengthy 24-month minimum contract term.

The only real catch here is that multiple-networks do tend to create more confusion for consumers, although seasoned users will appreciate the extra choice. No doubt iDNET’s investment last year to add CityFibre to their ISP has also made it easier to onboard additional networks, which means that today’s announcement might not be the last FTTP operator we see being added.

UPDATE 18th July 2022

The first customers on the new platform are expected to go live later this month.