KCOM Expands FTTP Broadband Build to Village of Gunness

Hull-based broadband ISP KCOM has announced that their rollout of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England) has added the village of Gunness to its plan, which once completed will reach 360 additional homes and businesses.

In case anybody has forgotten, KCOM’s full fibre network already covers around 300,000 premises in the two regions. But in September 2022 they announced a second £100m network expansion and upgrade project (here), which among other things aims to add another 50,000 premises to the total by around 2025 and most of those are due to be reached in 14 additional locations.

The village of Gunness was NOT one of the 14 new rollout locations mentioned last year, but KCOM does sometimes add locations to their deployment plan if they make sense (i.e. enough local demand and close enough to their existing network). The village itself sits on the west side of Scunthorpe, along the River Trent, and the operator also has a nearby build in Crowle, further to the west.

Neil Bartholomew, Managing Director of KCOM Retail, said:

“It’s great to see work underway to connect Gunness to our full fibre network which will transform local residents’ online experience.

There was a huge show of interest among villagers in bringing our network here and I’m delighted that we’re now well on the way to connecting Gunness to what is one of the best full fibre broadband networks in the UK.

We’re determined to connect rural communities that have often been forgotten by the big national providers to make sure that no-one is left behind in this digital world and so everyone has access to the many opportunities being online can offer.”

Construction work on the new network is already underway, although we do miss the days when KCOM had a dedicated page that gave up-to-date information on their build progress for each location. The rollout map they publish today is useful, but it’s not as visually informative or detailed as the ones being used by some of their rivals.