Pine Media extends FTTP broadband to 40,000 premises in South Yorkshire

Alternative network builder and UK ISP Pine Media, which has been steadily deploying their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband infrastructure across parts of Sheffield and South Yorkshire (England) for quite a few years now, has just revealed that they’ve now covered 40,000 premises.

The milestone, which is a notable increase from the 36,700 premises they reported roughly five months ago, represents one of the network provider’s largest single jumps in full fibre coverage to date and puts them much closer to achieving their long-held target of 50,000 premises.

“Most ISPs sell a service on someone else’s network. We own ours. We build it, run it and support the customers on it, with no wholesale layer and no subcontracted engineers,” said William Dear, CEO of Pine Media. The provider’s fleet of engineering vehicles has also recently gone fully electric.

The news comes after last year’s key development, which saw the provider deploy a major new high fibre count spine route across Sheffield, which enabled their network expansion into Broomhill, Crookes and beyond. On the flip side, Pine Media announced earlier this year that they were finally retiring their old Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network, albeit mainly because the vast majority had already been moved to FTTP.

Customers of the service currently pay from £19.80 per month for symmetric speeds of 100Mbps on a 24-month term, which rises to just £30.60pm for their top 2Gbps tier. All packages include free installation and an Amazon eero router (usually eero 6+ or eero 7). But their fastest speeds of 2Gbps aren’t yet available across their entire network patch.