Netomnia Detail FTTP Rollout for Stafford, Wednesbury and Walsall
Alternative network provider Netomnia – supported by UK ISP YouFibre – has today revealed new details on their plan to rollout a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband network to homes and businesses across the West Midlands towns of Stafford, Wednesbury and Walsall.
The operator, which has already covered 300,000 UK premises (up from 265k in October 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). The pace of build is clearly picking up.
As part of Netomnia’s deployment plan, they’ve today confirmed that they’ll invest £11.1 million to reach 37,000 premises in Stafford. At the same time, they’re also investing £53 million to cover 181,000 premises across both Wednesbury and Walsall. As usual, the operator will face competition from existing gigabit broadband networks in some parts of these locations.
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The service itself, once live, will be supplied to consumers by 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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Just a quick correction; Walsall isn’t in Staffordshire, it’s actually in the West Midlands and hasn’t been part of Staffordshire since 1974.
Stafford is in Staffordshire…
So isn’t a West Midlands town…
The West Midland’s “region” consists of the counties of Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands and Worcestershire.
More West than East :-p
When it start to rolling out Walsall?
Patiently waiting for derry/londonderry roll out
I remain a huge fan of these guys and I’m definitely not easily pleased. Quite literally going places.
Netomnia rocks!
Can’t wait to have them finish the build in Temple Ewell, outside of Dover. Nice to have a choice rather than everyone on Virgin Media, and those that couldn’t on slow FTTC (as many cabinets in isolated places away from most houses meaning extra wire distance and noise).
Wish we could get more information on where they plan to install in Walsall, we can only currently get FTTC via OpenReach on our estate, which is very slow!