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Gigaclear Start East Gloucestershire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

9th October, 2025 (1 Comment)

Rural broadband provider Gigaclear, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 612,000 UK premises, has this morning finally announced the start of their roll-out under Project Gigabit’s East Gloucestershire (Lot 18) contract. The £10.81m deployment is currently expected to help upgrade 3,547 premises in hard to reach areas.

Broadband ISP Aquiss Launch UK FTTP Broadband Packages via Gigaclear

3rd October, 2025 (5 Comments)

Shropshire-based UK ISP Aquiss this week appears to have added yet another alternative network to their platform after reaching an agreement to sell packages to homes and businesses covered by Gigaclear’s full fibre (FTTP) lines, which primarily cover rural premises across various parts of England.

VeloxServ Add Gigaclear’s Rural UK Broadband Network to Wholesale Platform

2nd October, 2025 (0 Comments)

The independent wholesale broadband and leased-lines aggregator, VeloxServ, has today announced that they’ve added Gigaclear’s rural full fibre broadband network to their platform as part of a new supplier partnership. The move gives partners (ISPs etc.) access to yet another alternative network, the fourth new supplier partner they’ve onboarded in 2025.

Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Adopts AI to Improve Customer Broadband Installs

17th September, 2025 (12 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has built their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 600,000 premises (mostly in remote rural parts of England) and is home to 150,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve adopted Vyntelligence’s AI video technology – the first UK retail fibre provider to do so – to improve customer installation journeys by reducing unnecessary work.

Gigaclear’s East Gloucestershire FTTP Broadband Rollout Contract Shrinks

6th August, 2025 (7 Comments)

The UK government has posted a Project Gigabit contract modification that shrinks Gigaclear’s £16.6m contract for rural parts of East Gloucestershire (Lot 18), which originally aimed to expand their gigabit-capable broadband network to 4,400 additional premises. But the change shrinks the value of this contract to £10.81m “due to removal of 899 premises” from its scope.

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Rural Full Fibre Broadband ISP Gigaclear Appoint Two New UK Directors

1st August, 2025 (10 Comments)

Abingdon-based alternative broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 600,000 premises (mostly in remote rural parts of England), has today announced that they’ve appointed two new Directors to their board – Stephanie Liston, Chair of the Jersey Competition Regulatory Authority (JCRA), and Catherine Colloms, former Openreach executive.

Ofcom Fine UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear £122k Over Calling Info Failure

30th July, 2025 (10 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator has today fined alternative rural broadband ISP Gigaclear £122,500 after they were found to have failed to “provide accurate and reliable caller location information to emergency services,” which could have made it more difficult for the police, fire and ambulances to find callers.

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Neos Networks Completes Oxfordshire UK GigaHubs Full Fibre Build

9th July, 2025 (0 Comments)

The Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) and Neos Networks have today confirmed the completion of their £7.25m “GigaHubs” project, which has now connected 192 public sector sites (schools, hospitals etc.) to a new 1,500km long gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network.

New Study Examines UK Full Fibre Broadband Take-up by Age of Network

4th July, 2025 (15 Comments)

Strategic consultancy firm Eight Advisory has today published the third edition of their Takeup Tracker, which examines the rise in take-up across the UK’s many alternative full fibre (FTTP) broadband networks (altnets) and compares it with that of Openreach (BT). This edition also takes a deeper dive into take-up by age of network – a key factor in gauging progress.

Rural UK Full Fibre Broadband ISP Gigaclear Sees More Job Cuts

1st July, 2025 (17 Comments)

Abingdon-based alternative rural gigabit broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already deployed their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 600,000 premises (mostly in remote rural parts of England), sadly appears to have suffered another round of redundancies over the past few weeks.

Nathan Rundle, CEO - Gigaclear and Richard Tang, CEO - Zen Internet

CEO of Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear Warns Ofcom Has Gone Too Far

4th June, 2025 (39 Comments)

The CEO of Abingdon-based alternative rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, Nathan Rundle, has told Richard Tang, CEO of Zen Internet, that they’re still focused on extending their full fibre (FTTP) network to 1 million UK homes in ultra rural areas. But the provider is concerned about Ofcom’s proposed changes to the market getting in the way.

Rural UK ISP Gigaclear Discounts 500Mbps Broadband to £22

22nd May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Abingdon-based alternative network provider Gigaclear, which is built a full fibre broadband network that covers 580,000 premises (RFS) across rural parts of England (inc. 130,000+ customers), has introduced a new discount that reduces the monthly price of their 500Mbps (469Mbps avg.) package to just £22 per month.

Creative Attempt at Car Parking Wrecks Gigaclear Broadband Cabinet UPDATE

2nd April, 2025 (22 Comments)

Customers of alternative UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, specifically those who take their full fibre (FTTP) network in the Northamptonshire (England) village of Brixworth South, have been impacted by a complex network outage since Sunday. This occurred after a car discovered a novel approach to parking by wiping out one of the operator’s street cabinets.

Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Deploy IPv6 Internet Addresses

19th March, 2025 (2 Comments)

Good news for customers of Abingdon-based alternative network provider Gigaclear. The ISP has now confirmed to ISPreview that they recently started rolling out IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6) internet addressing across their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network. The deployment is currently halfway to completion.

Essex Council Settles Legal Dispute with Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear

18th March, 2025 (1 Comment)

The Essex County Council (ECC) in England has this afternoon confirmed that they’ve settled their legal dispute with Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was originally raised last summer (here) over an alleged failure by the network operator to deliver on their contracted Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) build.

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BDUK Reveal Benefits and Impacts of UK Superfast Broadband Rollout

11th March, 2025 (6 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency has posted a final evaluation of the previous ‘Superfast Broadband Programme’ (UK National Broadband Scheme), which reveals the various “economic, social, and environmental benefits” from the previous project to extend “superfast” (30Mbps+) coverage – run between 2016 and 2022.

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Gigaclear Complete FTTP Broadband Build to Large Oxfordshire Village

4th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural UK ISP Gigaclear has confirmed the completion of their gigabit broadband roll-out across the large South Oxfordshire (England) village of Sonning Common. The work to deploy their full fibre network across the village started in 2023 and a total of over 2,000 premises can now access the new service.