Rural UK Broadband Provider Airband Promotes MD to Position of CEO
Alternative rural broadband ISP Airband, which has deployed their gigabit-speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) networks to cover parts of Wales and South West England, has today announced that the company’s existing Managing Director, Kashif Rahman, has been promoted to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – effective immediately.
The internet provider has just gone through a period of restructuring, which resulted in a fair few jobs losses and a switch to focus more on commercialising their existing network (as opposed to new infrastructure build). The company has also been without a full CEO since former boss and founder, Redmond Peel, stood down from the role in May 2024 (here).
Kashif has thus been one of the main driving forces behind Airband’s progress over the last 18-months in his role as MD, overseeing the introduction of innovative new technologies (e.g. Tarana’s next-gen gigabit wireless upgrade) that have strengthened their service offerings and helping to keep the business moving forward (annual results).
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Airband’s investors Aberdeen have similarly expressed full confidence in Rahman’s leadership. Suffice to say, it’s not a surprise to see him being promoting to the position of CEO.
Kashif Rahman said:
“I am honoured to take on the role of CEO at such an important time in Airband’s journey. We have a clear mission: to connect communities that have been left behind by traditional broadband rollouts. I am excited to build on our strong foundations, accelerate our growth, and continue delivering real value for our customers, partners and the communities we serve.”
In terms of the provider’s current network reach, Airband previously said that their broadband network now spanned “more than 440,000 premises in over 200 communities across 7 counties“ (here), which we were told breaks down as being 175,000 premises via “fibre” (FTTP) and 265,000 premises via wireless (FWA) – all Ready for Service. The also informed ISPreview that they expected to end 2025 with 30,000 customers.
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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The residents in more than 93% of the premises they reach find their offer resistable.
“We have a clear mission: to connect communities that have been left behind by traditional broadband rollouts.”
There’s only FTTC at ADSL speeds available from Openreach in our area, less than 6 miles from a city.
We can LITERALLY see their telegraph pole from our house… They still can’t connect us, next door neighbour is on Airband. It took them 4 months to tell us they can’t connect.
For a communications company, they communication with potential customers is non-existent.