Lit Fibre Covers 100,000 UK Premises with Full Fibre Broadband
ISP and network operator Lit Fibre has today revealed that the 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network they’re building has covered 100,000 premises, which is the first solid coverage data that we’ve had from them on their plan to reach 500,000 homes by 2026.
The provider, which started their deployment in 2021 and is being backed by an unspecified equity investment from Newlight Partners LP, is currently rolling out their network to cover numerous towns across several of England’s counties (e.g. Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Worcestershire, Essex, Suffolk and across the Midlands).
Lit Fibre says that their service is currently available across parts of Bishop’s Stortford, Chelmsford, Chippenham, Cirencester, Clacton-on-Sea, Evesham, Harpenden, Melksham, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Redditch, St Albans, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Sudbury and Welwyn Garden City, with installation well underway in Aldridge, Basildon, Erdington, Potters Bar, Sutton Coldfield, Warminster, Watford, Westbury.
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Just to be extra clear, for Lit Fibre, a home is considered Ready for Service (RFS) when there is a fully tested Connectorised Block Terminal (CBT) on top of a “telegraph pole” or at the end of a lead-in from a home, which results in an install-to-go-live timeframe of under three hours in a single visit.
Tom Williams, CEO of Lit Fibre, said:
“This milestone marks an exciting step in our journey. We are rapidly expanding our network and on track to deliver against our goal of deploying a rock-solid network to 500,000 homes by 2026.
The team is passionate about building the very best network with world-class technology and supported by outstanding 5-star customer service. Towns across the UK can now experience the fastest symmetrical internet speeds at the lowest possible prices, for the long-term.”
Residential customers on Lit Fibre’s network currently pay from £18 per month on an 18-month term (£30 thereafter) for their unlimited 100Mbps package (includes a free install, symmetric speeds and a Wi-Fi 6 router), which rises to £39 (£65 thereafter) for 900Mbps (average). Take note that the first 3 months of service is currently being offered for free.
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Sadly, LitFibre uses CGNat by default.
And they face a lot of competitions from other fibre network providers in many of the same coverage areas. For instance, in Clacton there are 2 or 3 other fibre networks for e.g. Openreach, LightSpeed and others. Thus the takeup rate will be low.
It makes more sense to invest in areas which have no fibre networks in the foreseeable future.
I am pretty sure all the new entrants are CGNAT by default now, there simply aren’t enough IPv4 addresses left. At least Lit allow subscribers to pay for a static IP without pushing them to a business plan, and they offer IPv6 so the majority of web traffic to the big services isn’t going to be affected by the NAT.
Talking of Clacton and BeFibre…why are they not live on Thinkbroadband?
Postcode for the BeFibre in Clacton?
Hi @andrew ferguson. Just a general query across the board. I can see Lit Fibre have covered a lot of Clacton, Lightspeed has a small patch but nothing for BeFibre. They announced build this time last year
I do like how they complete towns..and not leave it part build like some
Which town was fully built?
@phil just flicking through thinkbroadband after JJs post and Lit seem to cover the bulk of a town. E.g check out Clacton (vs Lighspeed and Be) and Chippenham (vs Gigaclear).
Others seems to build a small proportion then move on
I’m no expert but just something I’ve noticed
BeFibre is now visible in Clacton, probably more to find, and a couple of other spots across England
If only this statement was true for Redditch and they offered a business package…
Oh no they dont, they are just like other AltNets, who only seek to deploy to very easy access low hanging fruit locations and overlap sites that already have options to choose from while neglecting those who actually need access to decently priced and stable FTTP services, and such AltNets have been the last hope for many residents that have already been abandoned by the likes of Openreach who decided that easy access locations are deemed non viable and left in the none 15-20% of UK uptake just to cut corners and cost savings, while at the same time pushing copper prices to those who have had choice of services taken away from them. Openreach are only deploying FTTP quicker these days as a result of there hand being forced by AltNets. And AltNets say they where born out of the idea to reach those who have been neglected from past voucher schemes or the lack of interest from Openreach to expand there networks in there areas, is pretty much a fabrication in the most part and just built there business model on Openreach, just all scavenging the laid out breadcrumbs.
They certainly DO leave the majority of the town without anything at all. Cherry picked their way through Radstock and Midsomer Norton doing half of the two main arterial roads and then have left the rest of us with flyers over a year ago saying “coming soon”. And half what they did do already has multiple FTTP options or Virgin cable.
If you spend the time and get through to enquire, when is it coming soon, it isn’t at all to the vast majority of the town.
Truespeed did the same thing and didn’t do anything in Radstock bar one housing estate area