ISP GoFibre Add Newport-on-Tay and Tayport to UK Full Fibre Rollout
Rural fibre builder and UK ISP GoFibre (Borderlink Broadband), which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across parts of Northern England and the Scottish Borders, has today issued a short progress update to highlight some locations that have just gone live and others that have entered build.
The operator, which is currently being supported by funding of £164m from Gresham House (BSIF), currently plans to extend their full fibre network across 500,000 premises in the North of England and Scottish Borders by around the end of 2025 (here).
According to the latest update, approximately 12,600 local premises across the Fife towns of Cupar, Cardenden and Burntisland can apparently now benefit from the new network going live in their area (that makes for a total of 16,000 across the whole of Fife, they claim). At the same time, the provider has just started construction of their network in Newport-on-Tay and Tayport, which may eventually open up full fibre broadband to around 3,400 more premises.
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We should point out that some of these locations already have gigabit-capable networks from rivals, or they soon will (e.g. Axione UK and Grain have plans for Newport).
Neil Conaghan, CEO of GoFibre, said:
“It is with great pleasure that we announce that our full fibre broadband network is now live in Fife and available to the residents of Cupar, Cardenden and Burntisland while construction begins across Newport and Tayport.
The expansion across Fife is a significant step forward in our aim to close the digital divide across rural areas with our network already bringing transformational speeds to residents and businesses.
To any locals or businesses interested in learning more about how our network can benefit them, please do get in touch or register. We would like to thank everyone for their continued patience and support while we connect them to the benefits of full fibre.”
Customers of the new service can expect to pay from £36 per month for a 100Mbps package on a 24-month term with an included wireless router, which rises to £69 per month for their top 1000Mbps plan. The latter also comes with a bonus Wi-Fi extender (this can optionally be taken on other plans for just £5 per month extra).
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I really hope they are finally building in Tayport, it will be 12 months late mind you. But frankly if they are building in Tayport today then they have some really advanced technology as they are wearing invisibility cloaks. I would add that a good chunk of Tayport (Scotscraig Drive area) has Openreach FTTP already. Mind you someone has indeed been building in Cupar. Someone has also been putting in ducting outside Auchtermuchty as too, and there are signs up about streets being closed for roadworks when I drove through last Friday.
With Openreach also starting to build FTTP to both Tayport and Newport-on-Tay, GoFibre are going to really struggle to gain customers with those prices. Seems like they love to announce builds anywhere there is or will be competition. Let’s see if they actually make it available…
@Tom the only FTTP build in Tayport by Openreach is their standard retrofit to “newish” build estates that are fully ducted. So that’s Scotscraig Drive and Sandyhill Road only. They did enable a bunch of cabinets for GFast but even though I can get the full 80/20 speed on VDSL I can’t get GFast which shows how useless that is.
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Gofibre been all round the streets of Newport and Wormit spraying them with yellow painted arrows and GF logo so it looks like something is happening – although, looking at their prospective prices, I do wonder who will be taking them up on their “offer”???
Interestingly I noticed yesterday someone had put up traffic management on the entrance to Tayport and well there is a large drum of fibre. That after noticing someone had marked up all the Openreach manhole covers recently. However, on sticking my postcode into the GoFibre checker they tell me that “Sorry, we’re not planning to build our GoFibre network to your address” which is a shame as I signed a contract with them in December 2021 and I live in Tayport. Shame they don’t have the courtesy to let me know they have changed their minds. Or perhaps the right-hand doesn’t know what the left is doing…
Given you don’t need a phone line their prices are actually quite reasonable. Certainly I would take them up immediately if it where actually available.