Rural UK Broadband Provider Airband Tops 30,000 Customers

Alternative internet provider Airband, which has built a mix of both Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based broadband networks to cover various rural parts of Wales and South West England, has today announced that they’ve hit their target of reaching 30,000 customers (up from 19,000 in March 2024).

The brand’s 30,000th customer was connected in Wrexham, North Wales, which was one of the first areas to benefit from the rollout of Airband’s latest Gigabit Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) technology (this uses the 60GHz band). Speaking of which, the provider said they’re “already planning” to expand the reach of this new FWA technology during 2026.

The provider has previously stated that their network spans a total of “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. But they’ve also recently expanded FTTP into off-net areas by partnering with Openreach (here).

Airband now serves rural parts of Devon, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire and north Wales and has most recently brought FTTP solutions to the village of Ewelme in Oxfordshire.

Kash Rahman, Airband CEO, said:

“This customer milestone is another proud moment, in what has been a great year for Airband. Our focus on innovating to serve country communities that have been left behind by traditional broadband rollouts is working both for the business and the audiences we serve. We are committed to being customer first and the best is yet to come!”