ISP Ogi Add 2 South Wales Locations to FTTP Broadband Rollout
Infracapital-backed broadband provider Ogi, which is investing £200m to build a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across 150,000 premises in rural parts of South Wales by 2025, has today added the communities of Tonyrefail and Tonypandy to their existing build plan in Rhondda Cynon Taff.
The latest announcement brings access to the new full fibre technology closer than ever to people in Rhondda Cynon Taf. The active cabinet contains the tech behind the gigabit-capable network, with the potential to provide ultrafast broadband – that’s 150Mbps or higher – to more than 15,000 homes and businesses in the area when switched on later this year.
The provider, which by March 2023 had covered around 47,500 premises (up from 42,000 in January 2023) and recently expanded its future rollout plan (here), has already connected premises across locations such as Haverfordwest, Rhoose, Llantwit Major, St Athan, Abergavenny and many more.
Ogi’s CEO, Ben Allwright, said:
“As we see demand for reliable ultrafast speeds increase, our work becomes even more important.
Our homes continue to get smarter, and with the cost-of-living crisis affecting everything we do, we’re seeing more and more people looking to improve the quality of their connectivity for work and entertainment at home.”
Customers of the service can expect to pay from £30 per month for an unlimited service with downloads of 150Mbps (15Mbps upload) and an included wireless router on a 24-month term, which rises to £60 for their top 900Mbps (90Mbps upload) plan. New customers will also get six months FREE broadband and evening and weekend voice calling.
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The juxtaposition between the two stories, this one and the Lightspeed one next to it, is notable.
The businesses are being shaken and some are falling through the holes in the sieve.
The main difference I think is that Ogi are mostly only investing in areas that has no fttp/altnets which is currently most of South Wales north of the M4. I know myself and much of my family and friends are all desperate to upgrade our connections. I know it could be worse and I am thankful for the 22 download I currently get but it’s simply not enough with 4 kids and both of us often working from home. I’m often envious of the people that has the option of fttp, VM and altnets lol but also wondering how some of these companies will ever make a profit when certain parts the country just been swamped with Gbit lines from all directions, if we’re not careful we’ll end up spaghetti junction overhead like Thailand
Ogi Ogi Ogi
So, they add 2 more RCT areas and leave Tylorstown out of the list…. Ah, I’m surprised that Tonypandy (not pronounced Tony-Pandy) and Tonyrefail (Ton-a-revail) this Englishman knows how to pronounce them
Anyway, I’m still holding hopes that Ogi or one of the other Altnets finally push past the other parts of the Valleys and get to us…. Dreaming? Maybe!
Well they have just installed a green cab at penygraig roundabout. I wonder how long this all takes. Also whats their prefered method of getting it to the houses. underground or poles.
Both. In Mount Pleasant in Porth they’ve been busy since February digging up trenches, sometimes deploying Toby boxes to houses, sometimes just creating new routes to existing poles.
Abersychan when?
Why is Ogi’s pricing so high compared to other Altnets?
Ogi – 900/90 – £60 a month
Ogi – 900/900 – £70 a month
Grain – 900/900 – £30 a month
Youfibre – 900 /900 – £30 a month
Obviously Altnets are not necessarily “direct competition” for consumers because of availability but what explains the costing difference?
Greed or poor business planning
Competition means better product and better price. Not many people are willing to pay more even if the product is better. Trooli was in trouble because their higher prices weren’t giving them the takeup they need, even if they barely had overbuild
Because different networks have different methodologies of building. YouFibre/Netomnia are cheap because ultimately they only roll out to cheaper areas. Ogi try their best to cover an ENTIRE town. Building an entire fibre network isn’t cheap.
Do you have an example of an “ENTIRE town” coverage by ogi? Because I can’t see it