Rural England Broadband ISP Airband Appoints Jarlath Finnegan as Chairman
Alternative broadband provider Airband, which has built both a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) based network to cover rural parts of the Midlands, Cheshire, Oxfordshire, South West England and North Wales, has today announced that Jarlath Finnegan has been appointed as Chairman following Ian Fishwick’s departure.
Jarlath is a familiar industry figure and is the former Group CEO of All Points Fibre Networks (APFN), although he was most recently named as a Non-Executive Director for broadband ISP Wessex Internet (here). Suffice to say that he’s a man with some experience.
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) and have a total of 30,000 customers.
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Jarlath Finnegan said:
“Airband has built a strong platform and plays an important role in improving connectivity for communities that have historically been underserved. I’m looking forward to working with the team to build on those foundations, with a clear focus on operational performance, disciplined growth and developing a sustainable and profitable business.”
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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Something seems fishy here. Isn’t he still employed by wessex and aren’t they owned by ARBDN aswell. Potentially some sort of merger on the horizon.
Nah, just bog standard jobs for the boys. “C”-suite and board membership merry-go-round.
Glad I’m so out of it (in every) I can make comments like this.
Anything they can do to improve their shoddy network, and yes we are customers!
Integration specialist Finnegan knows how to spot any “spreadsheet engineering” from a mile away.