Brsk to Extend UK Full Fibre Broadband Network into Barnsley
Alternative fibre optic ISP Brsk, which is currently in the final stages of being merged into Netomnia’s network (here), has reportedly confirmed that approximately 50,000 homes and businesses across the South Yorkshire (England) market town of Barnsley will be the next to benefit from their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband.
The town is already well covered by Virgin Media’s (inc. nexfibre) gigabit-broadband network, while Openreach also has a significant level of FTTP coverage and CityFibre is similarly present in a big part of the town. After that, there are some much smaller patches from other altnets, like Hyperoptic and OFNL. Grain had also previously listed Barnsley as a target for their broadband network in 2023, but we have yet to see any live services.
According to the Barnsley Chronicle, Brsk will aim to cover 50,000 premises across the town, although the report doesn’t indicate when or where this service will start to go live, or even when the roll-out is expected to finally reach completion.
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The soon-to-be-combined network of Netomnia and Brsk has so far covered a total of 2.08 million premises (ready for service) across parts of over 90 UK cities and towns, and they also have a customer base of 238,000. The pair is currently aiming to expand their full fibre network to cover 3 million UK premises by the end of 2025 (inc. 1 million customers by 2028).
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I thought one altnet overbuilding another was now regarded as a cardinal sin, although CityFibre only seem to be present on the North West side of the town.
It seems government message not to overbuild is not effective and whilst they have permitted development rights most of these infrastructure overbuilds will continue . Whether the changes to code of practise that are due ,will have some effect depends on the wording and if code operators abide by them
There’s no government message not to overbuild. Given how interested you are in this thought you’d have paid more attention. The demand is to use existing ducts and poles as much as possible government aren’t making any attempt to stop altnets bringing more choice.
This your latest crusade? Having gone from complaining about poles to complaining about new ducts it’s now complaining about fibre going on existing poles and into existing ducts?
They also are building in inner city Birmingham (Birminghistan). Brsk seems to have a footprint in areas with high population of the usual suspects.
Look at their map if you don’t believe me.
Lol in the same thread people complain about overbuild and that Brsk is covering the wrong area. Turns out they all pay the same amount so a customer is a customer. Poor chaps installing and selling in these areas though
Bryant becomes more and more pointless each day!
What is the point of this Minister, he’s doing nothing at all to prevent or address overbuild
Brsk use the existing Openreach infrastructure using the PIA product.
So it’s not building new infrastructure over the top of another! It will be Brsk cables in Openreach ducts and on Openreach poles alongside the Openreach FTTP network.
There’s no government instruction not to overbuild. It’s about using existing infrastructure.
If you’ve gone from complaining about new poles to complaining about fibre going on existing poles and into existing ducts this might be a good time to reflect.
Why should he?
ooooh nice! I did see them doing some digging on a main road in town. Exciting!
Actually, Looks like we are going to have a fair few overbuild. I’m glad I am on a 30 day contract because if they can ever bring us the up to 7Gbps people talk about here I would jump to 2 both ways!. Roll on this time next year hopefully there will be a good choice.
BRSK written on the pavement in Pink next to the chamber in the street – So exciting! – Will hopefully make 1.6Gbps look slow! one.network says they will be doing that in the next 2 weeks
Ignored for 11 years – then BT come along and all of a sudden it’s overkill – with CF also now planning to build here. But it’s all GOOD
Julie and Joyce: there are streetworks out for installation of 3 poles in Barnsley right now. There’ll no doubt be more. Fancy a trip to South Yorkshire?