Altnet Broadband ISP Lightning Fibre Expand FTTP Cover on CityFibre’s Network
Eastbourne-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) service across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has today announced that they’ve also expanded their existing wholesale partnership with CityFibre to help them reach “thousands of new premises” in towns across the South Coast of England.
The altnet, which has built to a number of locations like Eastbourne, Brighton and Hove, Worthing, Lancing, Hastings and St Leonards, Heathfield, Hellingly and Broad Oak, Hailsham and Polegate, originally planned to cover 140,000 premises with their gigabit-capable network. But it remains unclear how many premises they’ve reached, and they’ve since had to slow their network build due to various challenges (here and here).
However, last year saw the provider join CityFibre’s national FTTP network in order to expand their off-net reach (here), although their initial coverage expansion under this agreement was limited to the Brighton & Hove and Worthing areas. But today’s announcement confirms an expansion of that partnership, which will “soon” see their retail broadband packages becoming available to premises in Polegate, Eastbourne and Hastings.
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As a vertically integrated network operator with its own fibre network, Lightning Fibre said they would continue to use their own infrastructure where available. The wholesale agreement with CityFibre enables it to significantly expand its serviceable footprint, “enabling it to acquire new customers and retain more home movers” (reducing churn).
Rob Reaks, Chief Commercial Officer at Lightning Fibre, said:
“We are delighted to be able to extend our footprint by leveraging CityFibre’s robust infrastructure. This agreement will enable us to reach even more homes and businesses with ultrafast and ultra-reliable full fibre technology.”
George Wareing, Chief Sales Officer at CityFibre, added:
“It’s great to see Lightning Fibre build on their success over our network. With CityFibre infrastructure across the South East, they now have a far larger footprint over which to offer their services, and residents and businesses will now have an even greater choice of provider.”
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Mark, any word for when Foresight-backed Lightning Fibre will be available via Foresight-backed F&W Networks? F&W’s “own” ISP, Hey!Broadband, could do with some love – because the vast majority of the traffic transits through AS49600 it often ends up getting trumboned through Iberia.
I’d be happy if they came back and took down all their flyposting on the streetlights of Haywards Heath.