More Northamptonshire UK Villages to Go Live on Gigaclear’s Fibre

Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear has announced that their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network will this month start to go live across the first 2,000 premises of their latest deployment patch – three villages in remote parts of Northamptonshire, England. This forms part of the operator’s wider £97m investment in the county.

In total, once the local build has completed, more than 3,700 homes in the rural communities of Middleton Cheney, Byfield and Hinton are set to benefit, in part from the £97 million worth of investment being made in Northamptonshire by Gigaclear.

The update doesn’t mention precisely what the provider’s overall coverage targets are for the county, although back in late 2020 we reported (here) that their combined commercial and state aid supported builds (e.g. Phase 3 of the Superfast Northamptonshire project) in the area could end up covering as many as 30,000 homes and businesses in rural Northamptonshire.

Tony Smith, Gigaclear’s East Delivery Director, said:

“Moving into rural Northamptonshire demonstrates our commitment to extend our network to new communities. Whilst many other broadband providers compete to offer their services in dense, urban areas we’re focussing on harder-to-reach communities that are far less likely to have a choice of supplier.”

Residential customers of the service currently pay from £17 a month (£40 after 18-months) for a symmetric 200Mbps broadband package on an 18-month term and this rises to £49 (£79 after 18-months) for their top 830Mbps plan. All packages include a wireless router and free installation.