Lit Fibre Set to Go Live in 3 West Midlands Towns with FTTP Broadband

Network builder and broadband ISP Lit Fibre, which aims to reach 500,000 UK homes by 2026 with their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today confirmed that they will aim go live in the West Midlands (England) towns of Aldridge, Erdington and Kingstanding from spring 2023.

The provider, which began their rollout last year and is being backed by an unspecified equity investment from Newlight Partners LP, is currently deploying their network to cover numerous towns in several of England’s counties (e.g. Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Worcestershire, Essex, Suffolk and across the Midlands).

Installation in the new locations of Aldridge, Erdington and Kingstanding is already “well underway” and, once live, an additional 65,000 homes throughout the region will have access to their symmetrical 100Mbps, 500Mbps or 1Gbps packages. But sadly, it’s unclear how long it will take them to complete the build in each area, and some of these areas will already have partial coverage by gigabit-capable rivals.

Tom Williams, CEO of Lit Fibre, said:

“There is a clear need for speed and by installing full fibre networks, we will provide ultrafast, symmetrical broadband services across the West Midlands, supercharging the community infrastructure and making it affordable, so that everyone can access better and more reliable internet.

We want to be at the heart of communities across the region by bringing full fibre internet right to your front door, bypassing the old, unreliable copper infrastructure that’s being used currently. Fibre to your front door means a much faster and overall superior internet experience that meets the internet enabled homes of today. Plus, we believe our competitive pricing along with best-in-class customer service rated five stars** [JW1] on Trustpilot, will help people to move away from their incumbent, unaffordable and unreliable services.”

Residential customers on Lit Fibre’s network currently pay from £27 per month on an 18-month term (£30 thereafter) for their unlimited 100Mbps package (includes a free install, symmetric speeds and a Wi-Fi 6 router), which rises to £58 (£65 thereafter) for 900Mbps (average).

UPDATE:

We realised just a bit too late that these towns had already been added to their rollout plan at the start of last month (here). The main change is thus that the build itself has now started and there’s finally a target window for them to go live. But normally we wouldn’t cover smaller incremental build updates, as it gets too spammy.