Welsh Wireless Broadband ISP Bluewave Goes into Liquidation UPDATE
The company behind fixed wireless broadband ISP Bluewave (Bluewave Communications Cymru), which serves rural premises across parts of Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire in Wales with claimed download speeds of “up to” 40Mbps for £29.99 per month, has this month entered voluntary liquidation.
The details remain unclear because the update has only just been posted on Companies House (here). But according to related records on The Gazette, a meeting of creditors was called on 7th December to discuss the possibility of voluntarily winding the company up, which was later followed by the appointment of Fortis Insolvency Limited to act as the liquidator on 20th December 2022.
The background to the latest situation is not known, although we do know that – elsewhere in the market – the large-scale UK rollout of gigabit-capable full fibre broadband networks has been putting increasing pressure on dedicated Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) providers. Some wireless providers have responded to this by conducting some of their own FTTP build, but not all such companies can afford to follow suit.
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However, it’s worth noting that Bluewave’s sole Director, Phillips Glyndwr, is linked to a string of past dissolved companies with the Bluewave name on Companies House (here). Speaking of which, Glyndwr setup a new company called Bluewave WiFi Ltd (14508865) on 28th November 2022, which is not to be confused with Bluewave WiFi Limited (09629510) – that was dissolved on 20th September 2016. Phoenix companies are allowed under UK law.
As if to confuse matters, the footer of Bluewave’s website still states: “Copyright 2022 Bluewave Internet Ltd – All Rights Reserved“. However, “Bluewave Internet Ltd” is a company name that is marked as being dissolved on 31st March 2020 (here).
We’ve contacted Bluewave for a comment on the latest liquidation and are awaiting their response.
UPDATE 23rd Dec 2022 @ 11:16am
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We’ve been informed that connectivity provider APC Communications Solutions has acquired the Bluewave business.
A spokesperson for APC Solutions told ISPreview.co.uk:
“APC Communications Solutions has purchased the network and intends to initially bring stability for all concerned, before rolling out upgrades and network improvements to address some of the issues that we are aware some clients have faced. We have had a long history working within South Wales and look forward to further strengthening and expanding those links.”
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Let’s hope their network lives on irregardless of whatever company ultimately ends up with the assets
I’m surprised this company has lasted this long to be honest…extremely poor customer service, poor broadband speeds and connections. Good at taking your money and the Government Grants though!!! Would never answer the phone or emails…until I complained to the Government Department and they contacted them directly! Awful company.
APC Communications Solutions Ltd has purchased the assets and will be upgrading and improving the network to serve the existing client base (and expand it) well into the future.
The UK rules were set up to get the taxpayer money to private individuals, it’s like the mafia, everything setup to work against UK population and there’s these loopholes and those that can cheat the system will get to keep all their illegal gains not a single banker went to prison but were rewarded for what they did and the public had to bail them… just look at the rest of the goingons including the sewage dumping, energy, train, royal mail (Cameron recently privatised) just like his mum before him (Thatcher), just wait NHS going the same way.
I remember the days where Cameron and Clegg were promising to fix broken Britain and to repair the NHS by using a top down reform of the whole shebang.
I think something didn’t quite work out and everything is now kaput.
A shame really, we had a wireless broadband service here for a while, and I was on it for a couple of years and for the first 12 months it was good, sadly as more people started to use it the quality of service fell, by the end of my contract FTTC was available, so it made sense to go to that. If the wireless network was still going and was still working good, I would still be using it now.
Probably be a breach of the Similar names provision of the phoenix companies act, thanks for that link Mark.
If affected then this is the breach form https://www.insolvencydirect.bis.gov.uk/ExternalOnlineForms/BreachQuestionnaire.aspx
Shame, but maybe letting him string along a new company to keep providing poor internet access for those with no better isn’t the worst crime.