ISP Brsk Add 2 West Yorkshire Towns to UK Full Fibre Rollout

Network builder and broadband ISP Brsk has announced that they’ve added the two West Yorkshire towns of Brighouse and Elland to their ongoing roll-out plan for a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across the Midlands of England (rollout plan). The expansion will also include surrounding locations.

The operator, which is fuelled by an investment of at least £259m, tends to focus its network on parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire, West Yorkshire and the West Midlands in England (e.g. Cottingley, Clayton, Bradford, Accrington and more). The long-term aim is to pass 1 million homes by 2026 and they’ve already covered 358,000 premises (10th Nov 2023), albeit falling to 346K for those considered ‘Ready for Service’ (the gap largely reflects wayleave delays in secured MDU coverage for apartment blocks).

In terms of their West Yorkshire build, the operator recently celebrated connecting 10,000 customers in the Bradford region. Currently, the operator’s local network covers North, West and South Bradford, where 75,000 homes and businesses can now choose to take up a full fibre broadband service, with 35,000 more in the pipeline to be connected by the end of 2024.

The latest areas in Bradford to be connected to full fibre include Wibsey Slack, Bankfoot South, Little Horton South, Upper Wyke, Wyke Common and Wibsey Slack. Suffice to say that the future addition of 20,000 premises in Brighouse and 12,000 in Elland – in the same region – will complement all this. Speaking of which, Hove Edge has been named as the first area in Brighouse to be rolled out, with additional areas soon to follow.

The expansion into Brighouse and Elland is also set to reach a number of surrounding locations, but the details of that have yet to be announced (expected “shortly“).

Darryl Nieuwenhuizen, brsk Regional Head for Lancashire, said:

“Strong digital connectivity has become fundamental to our daily lives and we are proud to serve the community’s connectivity needs for decades to come. As a challenger broadband provider, we are also proud to provide customers with more choice and better service to customers who have been taken advantage of, for far too long.”

Prices on brsk’s packages typically start from £25 per month (currently discounted to £18) for an unlimited 100Mbps symmetric speed package (inc. a free installation and router), which rises to £49 for their top 900Mbps package (currently discounted to £30). In addition, there’s also a “guarantee” of “no price rises” during that term and most plans are currently running price discounts.

Over the past year we’ve seen quite a few alternative networks adopt a more defensive posture in light of rising build costs and weaker than ideal take-up, but brsk is one of those that seems to be bucking that trend and continuing to grow their build.