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Wildanet Engineer Doing FTTP House Install

Rural Cornwall ISP Wildanet Extends Full Fibre Build to Pensilva

26th April, 2022 (0 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which a year ago began the £50m rollout of a new gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network across parts of Cornwall (here), has now begun to rollout their network to local homes and businesses in the village of Pensilva, which sits in the civil parish of St Ive.

Cornwall Focused ISP Wildanet Keeps Broadband Prices Frozen

1st March, 2022 (1 Comment)

Rural UK ISP Wildanet, which last year began the £50m rollout of a new gigabit-capable broadband (FTTP) and fixed wireless (FWA) network in Cornwall (here), has today confirmed that they “have no plans to put our prices up” like many of the market’s largest providers (most of those recently hit consumers with huge price hikes).

Wildanet Appoint New Leaders for Cornwall’s Gigabit Broadband Rollout

11th February, 2022 (4 Comments)

Rural UK ISP Wildanet, which last year started the £50m rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) and Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network in Cornwall (here), has appointed Helen Wylde to be its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Virgin Media’s former COO, Paul Buttery, to join as Chair of the Board.

Wildanet Extend Full Fibre Rollout in Cornwall UK to Callington

27th September, 2021 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband ISP Wildanet, which earlier this year started their £50m rollout (here) of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the Cornwall town of Liskeard (inc. surrounding areas within the PL14 postcode), has confirmed that the next town to benefit will be Callington.

BDUK Consults on Gigabit Broadband Coverage in Cornwall UK

16th July, 2021 (2 Comments)

The UK Government has just launched another Public Review, this time for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in South West England, which aims to identify any existing or planned commercial coverage of gigabit broadband ISP networks. The review will help to establish the areas where public investment may be needed to deploy the service.

Vodafone UK Switches on 2 New 4G OpenRAN Sites in Cornwall

8th June, 2021 (15 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has today announced that they’ve switched on two new rural 4G Open Radio Access Network (OpenRAN) sites in Cornwall – Fistral Beach in Newquay and the community of St Keverne on The Lizard. The two locations are only the second and third such sites to go live on their UK network.

Wildanet ISP Starts GBP50m Full Fibre Rollout in Cornwall UK

14th April, 2021 (7 Comments)

Broadband ISP Wildanet has announced the official start of their £50m programme to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network across Cornwall in England, which will start with the provider’s home town of Liskeard before moving into the surrounding rural areas within the PL14 postcode.

ISP Wildanet Get £50m to Rollout FTTP Broadband in Cornwall UK

22nd December, 2020 (1 Comment)

Broadband ISP Wildanet, which until recently had focused on deploying a wireless network across rural parts of Cornwall in South West England, has secured a major investment of £50m from the Gresham House British Strategic Investment Infrastructure Fund (BSIF) to help it deploy gigabit-capable full fibre.

Wireless ISP Wildanet to Deploy FTTP Broadband in Cornwall

12th October, 2020 (6 Comments)

Fixed wireless UK broadband ISP Wildanet, which covers some rural parts of Cornwall in England, has today revealed that they’re looking to branch out into building a Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network that would cater for “homes and commercial premises in urban and rural areas” within the county.

ISP Wildanet Claims Liskeard is First in Cornwall for Gigabit Speeds

21st August, 2020 (14 Comments)

Fixed wireless broadband ISP Wildanet has extended their network to the market town of Liskeard and claimed that it is now Cornwall’s (England) first location to benefit from the “fastest level of broadband speeds available” at 1Gbps, except its not and the fastest consumer package on their site is only 50Mbps.

Wireless ISP Wildanet Offers 3 Months Free to Businesses

27th May, 2020 (0 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) UK ISP Wildanet, which is currently building a new broadband network in rural parts of South West England, has begun offering businesses in Cornwall “guaranteed superfast broadband, with no payments in the first three months and a free standard installation” to help with the impact from COVID-19.

Wireless UK ISP Wildanet Get £400k to Grow Cornwall Network

8th April, 2020 (1 Comment)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Wildanet, which is working to extend their superfast broadband network to rural premises across parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and possibly South Wales, has secured additional equity investment of £400,000 from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Investment Fund (CIOSIF).

Wireless UK Broadband ISP Rural Comms Acquired by Voneus

1st April, 2020 (0 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Voneus has acquired another rival broadband network called Rural Comms Limited, which until recently served a number of remote rural communities in parts of Devon and Cornwall (England) – mostly operating from Ivybridge and focused around Exmoor, Dartmoor and South Hams.

Cornwall Wireless ISP Wildanet Partners Connectus for Biz Connectivity

22nd August, 2019 (0 Comments)

Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) ISP Wildanet, which is working to extend their broadband network to remote rural premises in parts of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and possibly South Wales, has announced a new strategic partnership with the Connectus Group in order to support new IP services for businesses in Cornwall.

Vodafone UK Confirms Isles of Scilly to Get 5G Mobile in July

27th June, 2019 (12 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone has confirmed that the Isles of Scilly, which sits 45km off the south coast of Cornwall, will join Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool and London as being one of the first UK places to benefit from their commercial rollout of 5G mobile broadband technology on 3rd July 2019.

Cornwall UK Sets Aside £5.8m to Extend Superfast Broadband

20th June, 2019 (45 Comments)

The Cornwall County Council in South West England has agreed to create the “Superfast 3 – Inclusive Growth” broadband project at a total cost of £5.835m, which could extend the reach of “superfast broadband” (30Mbps+) to “at least” 2,700 additional premises (mostly homes and 546 businesses).

Wireless ISP Cornwall Broadband Could Harness Local Church Spires

2nd April, 2019 (4 Comments)

A little known Bude-based fixed wireless access ISP called Cornwall Broadband, which serves homes and businesses across parts of Cornwall and Devon in England, is said to be considering the possibility of expanding their rural network coverage by harnessing local church spires.