UK ISP Giganet Launch Full Fibre Packages for Small Businesses

Broadband provider Giganet (Cuckoo) has today announced that they’ve launched a new full fibre (FTTP and Ethernet) package for SOHO (small office, home office) customers in the small business sector, which they said is “ideal for offices of 1-10 employees” and will be offered via both their Openreach and CityFibre networks.

Sadly, the announcement includes hardly any detail on the new packages, except to state that “SOHO 160Mbps” is “perfect for those looking to transition from FTTC, but do not require the power of a 1Gbps service.” The operator added that they are also aiming to launch a wave of new Business FTTP and Ethernet products to the Channel market “in due course“.

In case anybody has forgotten, Giganet is backed by an investment of £250m from Fern Trading and are currently also in the process of rolling out their own full fibre broadband network to 300,000 premises by the end of 2025 – across poorly served parts of Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire and West Sussex (here). But this side of their network is due to be consolidated with Fern’s other providers and opened up to wholesale in the near future (here).

Paul North, Head of Channel at Giganet, said:

“Being an agile provider means we can move fast and diversify our product offering to suit the needs of our partners and their customers.

This is an affordable solution for users that may not be quite ready for our SME Business FTTP product, while allowing businesses to move to full fibre for the same price they pay for copper. Effectively, we’re future proofing their business and doubling their bandwidth.”

One rather irritating feature of Giganet’s business website is that you can’t see their packages until after you’ve shared your personal and company details with their availability checker and agreed to let them contact you about their services (in fairness, some business ISPs won’t even let you do that). So naturally, we made up some fake details and tried it anyway, but at the time of writing it doesn’t appear as if the new SOHO 160Mbps package is available (i.e. it didn’t come up as an option on their Openreach side).