LilaConnect Joins the Prime Fibre Network on Grosvenor’s London Estate
Broadband ISP LilaConnect, which is primarily associated with VX FIBER‘s rollout of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in England, has this week become the latest internet provider to join Prime Fibre‘s open access network – serving residents in Mayfair and Belgravia (Grosvenor’s London Estate).
LilaConnect says they were selected to join the Prime Fibre network for its “affordable and competitive offering and the outstanding customer service it delivers to subscribers“, which means it will become one of just three ISPs chosen to provide its services to the estate. But it should be said that Prime Fibre’s network is another VX FIBER project, thus this move perhaps isn’t all that surprising.
Customers in the area will benefit from a choice of three packages: LilaFibre 250 at £40 per month, LilaFibre 500 for £48 or LilaFibre 1 Gigabit at £52. The company also offers no in-contract price rises throughout the 12-month period.
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Jan Lange, MD of LilaConnect Ltd., said:
“Grosvenor and Prime Fibre are championing London’s digital revolution. Their pioneering work to build a fully connected community is a blueprint for regions across the country, and to be selected to be a part of delivering this game-changing work is an honour. Our job now is to continue delivering our reliable, fast service and industry-leading customer service to those who choose our service packages so that Mayfair and Belgravia can take advantage of all the benefits full fibre has to offer.”
The Prime Fibre network is accessible to some 3,000 premises in Mayfair and Belgravia.
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“affordable and competitive offering”
>starts at £40pm
This is the real estate referred to in the article – https://www.grosvenor.com/property/property-uk/our-places/mayfair-and-belgravia
We aren’t talking social housing or 2 up, 2 down terraces here. Affordability is relative.
“3,000 premises in Mayfair and Belgravia.”
Ever played Monopoly? I can tell you someone living here wouldn’t even notice £40/pm.
“Properties in Belgravia had an overall average price of £2,866,294 over the last year.”
Mayfair -> “Average flat price is £1,807,727. Average house price is £9,450,000”
The people buying these will have high demands/expectations. You won’t be seeing social tariffs here.
But we ARE talking social housing here in Mayfair. Grosvenor has had the full fibre broadband installed in the Mayfair social housing blocks of flats, to the landings. Very few residents can afford the much higher prices offered by these Grosvenor Prime Fibre broadband retailers. Other providers were willing and and able to install the infrastructure for full fibre broadband from the street into the buildings and into residents’ homes, but seem not to be able to get wayleave from Grosvenor to do so. The HA leaseholder will be installing full fibre broadband at genuinely affordable prices (not Grosvenor affordable) to thousands of it’s other properties, but I cannot get an answer from them or from Grosvenor as to whether they will be granted wayleave to install the cabling to our housing estate. So the Mayfair social housing residents are so far being denied access to the much lower-priced full fibre broadband that the rest of London is being offered. How many of us will be left with no broadband access and no VPN phone access? This is social housing, why are we being offered broadband at double the price it is in nearby non-Grosvenor communities?