Zzoomm Bring 2Gbps Broadband to Codsall in Staffordshire UK
Broadband ISP and network builder Zzoomm has today announced their new multi-gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network is about to start going live in the large Staffordshire (England) village of Codsall, which is currently home to a population of almost 8,000 people.
Situated in the Staffordshire countryside, some 4,000 premises in Codsall will, this week, join nearby Wombourne and Cannock in becoming the next location to be covered by Zzoomm’s new full fibre network in the county. The decision looks like a reasonable one given that the only gigabit-capable rivals in the village are Openreach and OFNL, both of which have very small deployments.
The operator, which is being fuelled by an equity investment of £100m from Oaktree Capital (here) and a £100m debt facility via an international banking consortium (here), has – based on the last update a few months ago – so far covered 150,000 UK premises (Ready for Service) across 29 locations (an extra 50,000 since February 2023) and they’re also home to over 12,000 customers (up from 3,700 in 2022).
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At present some 45,000 of those premises appear to come from their deployments in Staffordshire. On the other hand, Zzoomm’s original aspiration of reaching 1 million premises across 85 UK towns with their full fibre network by the end of 2025 still look to be in doubt, not least after the operator appeared to slow their build and cut jobs in the spring (here).
Chris Collinson, CCO of Zzoomm, said:
“We are delighted to be helping drive innovation through access to our gigafast Full Fibre network to homes and businesses in Codsall. At Zzoomm, we believe that everyone should have access to reliable, future ready broadband and we look forward to expanding our locations well beyond the existing 45,000 properties in Staffordshire.”
Customers who take the residential service typically pay from £29.95 per month (currently discounted to £19.95) for an unlimited 150Mbps (symmetric speed) package on a 12-month term with an included router, which goes up to just £64.95 (currently discounted to £54.95) if you want their top 2Gbps tier.
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OFNL is doing only new build areas so not a surprise they have only small area covered. Also neither OR or Zzoomm will overlap with OFNL until the whole new estate will be passed to the local council which means OFNL can still charge +£55.00 for their top 900/450.
Oh god please come to Spalding.. we need competition for Lightspeed Broadband so badly.
Lol Spalding has BT, Virgin, Netomnia, Light speed and Upp
I can’t wait for my Codsall address to go live. The Openreach overhead copper service has been slow and unreliable over the last few years and they don’t want to carry out any remedial works if at all possible. I’ll be jumping ship as soon as Zzoomm make my address available.
Zzoomm have had their problems, I changed from Plusnet FTTC to zzoomm FTTP in June, and have had a few outages and slow-downs since, suppose to be getting 500Mb/s. Granted, it has been better over the last couple of weeks, so maybe they are sorting things out. A bit annoying as we are told that Fibre is more reliable and yet in the 9 years I had FTTC I only really had one major problem and even then I could still use the services as long as I used an old Huawei modem. I changed to Zzoomm more to do with price than speed.
Hopefully, the speed and reliability I have been getting over the last couple of weeks will stay.
Just came home this morning and saw a zzoomm van a couple of doors down, so it is good they are getting customers over Openreach.
Also, need to sort out their customer service, while I have not used it myself, there are people on Facebook that have and don;t seem to have much luck with them.
Gone live for order today at our address in Bilbrook. My install date is 1st November. My BT contract also expires on 1st November so it’s fantastic timing – just what I’d hoped for after monitoring their install progress and roadworks throughout the village.
are there any plans for rollout into south west wales
I presume that’s not 2 Gbps down AND up?