Netomnia Detail FTTP Broadband Build for Manchester and Aylesbury
Alternative network operator Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – has revealed more details of their plan to extend a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to the city of Manchester and the Buckinghamshire town of Aylesbury. The two projects represent a combined investment of up to £31.8m.
The operator, which has already covered 265,000 UK premises with their full fibre network (up from 210k in August 2022) and is present in parts of 35 towns and cities with many more in-planning, currently aims to reach 1 million premises across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by the end of 2023 (coverage plan).
As part of that, Netomnia has today confirmed that they’ll invest £15.9 million to reach 53,000 premises in the Cheetham Hill area of Manchester, which reflects an “initial phase” of work that is being supported by civil engineering contractor O’Connor Utilities.
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On top of that, they’ve also committed an identical amount of money to cover another 53,000 premises in Aylesbury and the surrounding areas. As usual, the operator will face some competition from existing gigabit broadband networks in some parts of these locations.
The service itself, once live, is supplied to consumers via ISP YouFibre, which offers unlimited usage, symmetrical speeds, a Wi-Fi router, free installation and 24/7 UK based support. Customers pay from just £20 per month on an 18-month term for their unlimited 50Mbps package (£22 thereafter), which rises to just £30 if you want their top 920Mbps plan (£50 thereafter).
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Sounds great, when will they start the work, where can we see the plans to see if it covers our zone in those areas/towns?
I would love to get away from Virgin Media, get faster uploads to my work, cheaper prices than VM and better customer service (I hope)
You can find it if you type netomnia rollout in google, their map is quite detailed
But their postcode checker is effectively unpopulated so no granularity of what’s planned.
They are doing work on my street (a double chamber box at end of street) and surrounding streets, still shown as not planned on their checker. I notice as well in Falkirk IIRC the coverage map suggests that all of Falkirk is covered, but https://bidb.uk/ mapping only showed coverage for a couple of estates.
Will be great if they chose to serve my house (fingers crossed), but I expect it will take them a while to get wide coverage in every town they are targeting
Manchester they have started Middleton cheetham hill which goes into blackley
Oldham and shaw
Bury is getting the go ahead soon
At last Aylesbury just hope its bedgrove lol, Is there anyway we can find out where in aylesbury this is going to be?
If you use bidb.uk that Martin has shared with us, you cna pop in your post code.
Check the panel on the right for Netomnia and you’ll see where works have been granted.
Currently showing in the centre of Aylesbury
Just giving my experience… Frome announced last year. Work has been ongoing but its still yet… cables are in but still waiting for go live.
Lol I just want to see the infrastructure go in as no one seems to be bothered and to a mainly flat town should be fairly easy compared to hillier towns/areas
What particular difficulty do you believe is presented by towns with hills?
I wondered same thing 🙂
I think in most places the issues are mainly
– no ducts
– ducts being full
– ducts being blocked
– lack of poles
– poles that need replacing
– poles that are at capacity
Of course the rollouts get delayed for a myriad of reasons, most if which we won’t see and we don’t see the big picture