Northern Fibre Extend Full Fibre to More Rural Yorkshire Villages

Network operator Northern Fibre, which is a sub-brand of UK wireless broadband ISP Stix Internet, have continued to expand the rollout of their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across rural parts of Yorkshire and has now gone live in several more villages.

Back in May 2022 we reported that the operator had been quietly building out their new fibre network, starting with the two neighbouring villages of Clayton West (population of c.2,700) and Scissett (population of c.1,300). At the time, they’d already managed to reach 500 premises and held a goal to “connect 20,000 properties in Yorkshire by the end of 2023“.

The operator now has live customer connections across three West Yorkshire villages of Clayton West, Scissett and Denby Dale. The incremental build in these areas is also continuing to add further properties on a monthly basis in all three locations.

Meanwhile, the core network has been extended into South Yorkshire, where the operator recently secured investment from Project Gigabit (e.g. vouchers) to help them bring FTTP into the village of Hoylandswaine and town of Penistone. But growing FTTP coverage isn’t the only benefit from all this.

“Our expanding fibre network is also allowing us to increase capacity for our fixed wireless access network which continues to service the growing needs of some of our more rural customers (providing our own dark fibre to our wireless base stations rather than relying on [Openreach’s Ethernet EAD links]),” said Stix Director, Ross Williams.

Customers in their FTTP areas can expect to pay from £24 per month for an unlimited 80Mbps (30Mbps upload) package on a 12-month term (plus £50 for one-off activation), which rises to £55 if you want their top 950Mbps (400Mbps upload) service with free activation. The packages include installation, a router and a fixed price contract.

We actually meant to report all this a few weeks back, but forgot due to a busy inbox.