Broadband ISP Grain to Expand UK Full Fibre Network in Warrington

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect), which has already built their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220,000 UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and connected 30,000 customers, has revealed that they’ve begun to expand their existing deployment in the Cheshire (England) town of Warrington.

Just to recap. Back in 2023 Grain announced that they were going to build their FTTP network across “more than” 10,000 homes in Warrington (here). This reflected about one tenth of the town’s c.98,000 residential properties and pitted them against several gigabit-capable rivals, such as Virgin Media, Openreach and Freedom Fibre.

According to Thinkbroadband’s mapping, Grain only appears to have covered a small part of the town (some way below 10k ready for service), but despite this the operator has today said they’re “buzzing to let you know that we’re expanding our high-speed network into even more areas of Warrington“, albeit without revealing which areas and how many premises will benefit.

The operator’s full fibre network can also be found in parts of 59 other UK locations (plus over 150 new build housing developments), which includes a lot of small-to-modest sized patches of various urban cities and towns like Leicester, Liverpool, Accrington, Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Scarborough, Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, Hartlepool, Hull, Newport, Sunderland, Blackburn and so forth.