Community Fibre Offer 1 Year of Free 1Gbps Broadband in Prize Draw

Network builder and UK ISP CommunityFibre, which is deploying a 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across London, are celebrating the re-announcement that more than 1 million homes can connect to their network by giving Londoners the chance to win a free 12-month period 1Gbps fibre.

The announcement left us scratching our heads a bit because CommunityFibre already revealed, all the way back in July 2023 (here), that they had hit the coverage milestone of 1 million homes passed (up from 720,000 in December 2022) – plus 212,000 businesses on top (i.e. their network footprint expanded by 75% in the last 12 months).

Nevertheless, the operator has decided – belatedly – to celebrate the milestone by giving Londoners covered by their network the opportunity to win a free 12-month period 1Gbps fibre connection via a special offer page – https://communityfibre.co.uk/1mhomes. But this is only open to new customers, and there are only ten such packages available to be won by entrants. The prize draw is due to close on Thursday, 12th October 2023 at 23.59pm BST.

Ten entrants that meet the free prize draw eligibility criteria will be selected at random on Monday, 16th October 2023 and will be contacted via the email address provided by Friday 20th October at 23.59 BST by a member of the Community Fibre marketing team. But one catch is that the winners must agree to share photography of themselves with CommunityFibre, to be posted publicly along with their name on its social media feeds for marketing purposes.

Graeme Oxby, Chief Executive Officer of Community Fibre, said:

“With ongoing pressure on household bills, as well as increasing consumer demand for online access and digital connectivity, we are proud to enable access to faster, cheaper, and more reliable fibre broadband to over one million London properties across the capital.

As well as advancing our network build to more properties and businesses across the capital, we will continue to challenge the industry with our innovative offerings, such as setting new out-of-contract pricing standards, which we have capped at £2 across all our packages, as well as providing easy access to our social tariff, which remains the only social tariff product on the market today which does not ask consumers to provide proof of eligibility.”

Otherwise, residential customers typically pay from £20 per month on 24-month term (optional term of 12-months) for a symmetric speed of 150Mbps with an included router (£22 thereafter), which rises to £49 for their top 3Gbps tier (£51 thereafter). On top of that they also have a special tariff that gives you 35Mbps speeds for just £12.50 per month on a 12-month term, which is technically a social tariff, except anybody can take it.