ISP Aquiss Launch Netomnia Based UK 8Gbps Biz Broadband Packages

Shropshire-based UK broadband ISP Aquiss has today announced that they’ve become one of the first third-party retail internet providers to offer full fibre packages for businesses via Netomnia’s growing national network, which includes symmetric speeds from 75Mbps and up to 8Gbps (7000Mbps average).

Just to recap. Netomnia’s Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network currently covers 2.56 million UK premises (up 243k in the quarter) and is home to 341,000 customers (up 54k). But until recently most customers could only access this network via the group’s in-house providers (YouFibre and Brsk), although that has now begun to change.

Aquiss, which also supplies services via Openreach, CityFibre, Freedom Fibre and FullFibre Ltd’s networks, appears to be offering several business packages via Netomnia. The plans start from just £30 +vat a month for speeds of around 75Mbps (peak time average) on a 12-month minimum contract term (inc. free installation) and rise to £120 for their top 7,000Mbps tier.

All packages include symmetric service speeds, unlimited usage, a pledge of no mid-contract or annual price rises, a static IPv4 address and static IPv6 addresses (/56). But new customers will be expected to supply their own broadband router (this may be tricky for those picking the 8-7Gbps tier due to limited choices and high costs). Packages for consumers may also follow in the near future, but for now it’s biz-only.

We should point out that Aquiss’ use of a 12-month (instead of 24-month) term and v4 + v6 static IPs as standard to provide for some advantages over YouFibre etc.