Fibrus Goes Live with Full Fibre Broadband in Longtown, Cumbria UK
Alternative broadband ISP Fibrus has today put out a second announcement, which reveals that they’ve just put their new multi-gigabit speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network live for 1,100 premises in the Cumbria (England) town of Longtown. The deployment follows similar builds in towns like Workington, Wigton and Ambleside.
Chris Collins, Fibrus’ Head of Network Build, said: “We’re delighted to be able to bring the benefits of our Full Fibre network to even more communities in Cumbria. At Fibrus, we use a full-fibre optic cable all the way to the premises creating a quality and reliability that cannot be achieved any other way. This will make a big difference to local businesses and families in Longtown, allowing them to access more reliable broadband rather than having to rely on slow copper wires for their internet.”
However, despite the usual remarks about locals in Longtown previously “having to rely on slow copper wires for their internet“, it’s worth pointing out Voneus has also recently covered the same location with access to their new gigabit-capable full fibre network. But people could be forgiven for not knowing about this because Voneus rarely does much to promote their builds and future plans.
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Otherwise, Fibrus’ new network has, as of 31st March 2024, already been expanded to cover 354,000 premises (337k RFS) across parts of England and Northern Ireland, which is up from 339,000 premises on 31st January 2024 (321,000 RFS). In addition, the operator recently grew their customer base to over 80,000.
Residential customers can expect to pay from £24.99 £21.99 per month for download speeds of 159Mbps (average) and uploads of 34Mbps on a 24-month term (£39.99 thereafter), which rises to £44.99 £39.99 for their top 982Mbps (310Mbps) tier (£59.99 thereafter). The packages also include an Amazon Eero 6+ router (or routers), UK support, free setup and the pledge of “no mid-contract price hikes“. Prices may differ in areas of subsidised build.
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They also have an unadvertised 2Gbs down 310 up for £79.99. Mine is being installed next Wednesday, wish me luck.
They always knocking on our doors in west cumbria, but there is too many horror storys about fibrus….. think i wait for BT to install FTTP. Rather have a 80 meg connection that is stable than upto 2gig unstable!
Supposedly the entire reason Fibrus was given the £100 million to install fibre to every premises in Cumbria is that Openreach (BT don’t do infra anymore) and other commercial providers had said that they would not be installing to these areas because it wasn’t commercially viable.So unless you live in a town I would not hold your breath waiting for Openreach to come. If these areas were not viable earlier, then they are even less so if they are facing competition.
Does anyone have an idea when Fibrus are going to be actually overtaking in RURAL areas of Cumbria where the best we currently get is 2Mbps ADSL? (Excepting Starlink). I live at the northern edge of the county between Longtown and Brampton, and so far Fibrus groundworks and future permits have all avoided my area. It’s almost as though they don’t actually intend to come here at all, despite Project Gigabit explicitly being about reaching the remoter areas?