Rural Broadband ISP Airband Name Alan Mitchell as New Managing Director
Alternative network provider Airband, which has rolled out a mixed Full Fibre (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless (FWA) broadband network across rural parts of England and North Wales, has today announced another leadership change by promoting Alan Mitchell to be their new Managing Director (MD).
Alan, who has over 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles across telecommunications and critical national infrastructure sectors, steps into the post after having previously served as the company’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), where he has led operations, service delivery and customer experience.
Airband has previously stated that their network currently 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 FWA (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, Chairman, said:
“Alan has played a critical role in the progress we’ve made over the past year. His ability to bring clarity, align teams and drive performance makes him the right person to lead the business operationally as we move forward. I’m very pleased to be working closely with him in this next phase.”
The announcement comes after a bunch of other recent leadership changes, as well as some more redundancies, to support the provider’s “next phase of growth” (here).
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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