Grain Start Expanding UK Full Fibre Broadband Network in Nuneaton
Carlisle-based broadband internet provider Grain, which last year secured a £225m funding boost (here) and has so far built their point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 270,000 UK premises (aiming to reach 600,000 in the future), has revealed that they’ve begun to deploy their network across the Warwickshire (England) town of Nuneaton; home to around 88,000 people.
The town itself is already well covered by gigabit-capable broadband from both Virgin Media (inc. nexfibre) and Openreach’s respective full fibre networks. A number of alternative networks have also conducted small deployments in parts of the town, including OFNL (FibreNest), Glide and Hyperoptic. Suffice to say that there may be just enough space in the market for a serious push by another altnet.
As usual, Grain hasn’t revealed precisely how many premises they intend to cover in the town or when the build will complete, although they do confirm that the roll-out began last month and the first connections are due to go live during Spring 2026.
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Recent data from local street works indicates that Grain will be focusing their initial roll-out around the suburb of Stockingford. However, we also noted that another altnet, LightSpeed Broadband, appears to be starting a similarly modest deployment in the north and eastern sides of the town.
Richard Cameron, Grain’s CEO, said: “We’re excited to offer Nuneaton residents an internet service that can keep up with their digital lives.”
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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