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Gigaclear Start New Oxfordshire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

18th February, 2025 (7 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP Gigaclear has today announced that they’ve kicked off the construction phase of their £25.4m (state aid) Project Gigabit contracts for South Oxfordshire (Lot 13.01 – c.5,500 premises) and North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02 – c.4,200 premises), which will extend their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 9,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas.

Gigaclear Advisors to Hunt Fresh Funding for Rural UK Broadband Build UPDATE

14th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

Abingdon-based broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 580,000 premises (RFS) in rural parts of England (inc. over 130,000 customers), is reportedly hiring advisors to help it find new funding in order to continue their network deployments across the UK.

Report Examines Customer Take-up of Openreach vs AltNet Broadband ISPs UPDATE

16th January, 2025 (4 Comments)

Strategic consultancy firm Eight Advisory has today launched a new Takeup Tracker, which examines the steady rise in take-up across the UK’s many alternative full fibre broadband (altnet) networks and compares it with that of incumbent operator Openreach (BT). The new tracker paints a mixed picture, albeit one with some positives to share.

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Rural UK Fibre Broadband ISP Gigaclear Appoints New Chairman

18th December, 2024 (0 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP and full fibre network builder Gigaclear, which has already extended their FTTP network to cover 580,000 premises (RFS) in England and signed-up over 130,000 customers, has today announced that they’ve appointed Andy Matthews to be their new Chairman – replacing Stephen Nelson who is retiring.

Gigaclear Extends UK Rural FTTP Broadband Cover to 580,000 Premises

10th December, 2024 (0 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP and full fibre network builder Gigaclear has today celebrated a “record year of growth in 2024” after adding 40,000 new customers (up almost 50% in the year) to total over 130,000, while also extending their network coverage to 580,000 premises as ‘Ready for Service’ (up by 100k in the year).

Opensignal 2024 Study Ranks UK Broadband ISPs by Quality and Speed

5th December, 2024 (9 Comments)

Internet benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published their “definitive” 2024 Fixed Broadband Experience report, which gauges the performance of various internet service providers across the UK and then separately across 12 of its regions (inc. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). Overall, Virgin Media came top in the national scores, but the regional results are different.

Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Appoints New Financial Boss

20th November, 2024 (2 Comments)

Abingdon-based rural ISP and full fibre network builder Gigaclear has today announced that they’ve finally appointed a new Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Hugo Eales, which comes after the departure of both their former CEO, Gareth Williams, and CFO, Ian Wade, earlier in 2024 (here).

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Ofcom UK Widen Scope of Probe into Gigaclear’s Emergency Calls Failure

19th November, 2024 (1 Comment)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has today confirmed that they’ve widened the scope of their recently launched investigation into rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which was probing their possible failure to “provide accurate and reliable caller location information to emergency organisations“ (i.e. making it more difficult for police, fire and ambulances to find callers).

Cambridgeshire UK Updates on Progress of Dig Once Fibre Build

16th October, 2024 (4 Comments)

The Connecting Cambridgeshire project, which is led by the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority, has today issued a progress update on their “Dig Once” policy and efforts to accelerate the roll-out of gigabit broadband across the county, with 21.6km of new fibre ducting already installed or soon to be deployed. Both Cityfibre and Gigaclear have now harnessed this.

Ofcom Probe Gigaclear Over Failure to Provide UK Caller Details to Emergency Services UPDATE

11th October, 2024 (2 Comments)

The UK telecoms and media regulator, Ofcom, has launched an investigation into rural broadband ISP Gigaclear over a possible failure to “provide accurate and reliable caller location information to emergency organisations“, which could have made it more difficult for the police, fire and ambulances to find callers.

UK ISP Gigaclear Nearly Complete Fastershire FTTP Broadband Rollout UPDATE

27th September, 2024 (6 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Gigaclear appears to have nearly completed their state aid supported contract under the Fastershire scheme, which originally instructed the operator to extend their gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTP) network to 70,000 of the hardest to reach premises in Gloucestershire and Herefordshire (this was revised upwards to 110,000 in 2020 – here).

Gigaclear to Cut Jobs as UK Rural Full Fibre Broadband Build Slows

26th September, 2024 (6 Comments)

Alternative network provider and rural broadband ISP Gigaclear has today revealed that, as part of “planning for the next stage of its development” and a “re-focus on ultra-rural areas“, their current pace of full fibre (FTTP) build will be slowing and that means job losses.

Rural Full Fibre Broadband ISP Gigaclear Summarises Annual UK Progress

25th September, 2024 (4 Comments)

Alternative network provider Gigaclear, which as of March 2024 has built a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 500,000 rural premises (RFS) in England (inc. 100,000 customers), has this week published their annual accounts to the end of 2023 and revealed some key figures for the year.

Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Discounts Plans for Sept 2024

2nd September, 2024 (0 Comments)

Alternative broadband provider Gigaclear, which has built a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 premises (RFS) in England (inc. 100,000 customers), has introduced a new range of discounts that rejigs their packages and prices for those placing an order during September 2024.

Opensignal Ranks Largest 14 UK Broadband ISPs by Reliability

2nd August, 2024 (6 Comments)

Benchmarking firm Opensignal has today published a complementary study to their recent research into the differences in broadband reliability across countries (here), which reveals the ISPs that deliver the strongest and poorest “broadband reliability experience” in the UK. Suffice to say that it’s a good day for Virgin Media and altnets.

Essex Council Take Legal Action Against Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear

27th July, 2024 (23 Comments)

Abingdon-based UK broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has long been rolling out their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover rural locations across Essex (England) – via a mix of commercial build and state aid supported contracts, is now facing legal action from Essex County Council (ECC) over an alleged failure to deliver on their contracted builds.

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Oxfordshire UK’s GigaHubs Full Fibre Build Connects 180 Sites

26th June, 2024 (4 Comments)

The Oxfordshire County Council (OCC) and Neos Networks have revealed that their ongoing £7.25m “GigaHubs” project has now connected 180 public sector sites (schools, hospitals etc.) to a new gigabit-capable full fibre broadband network. But the work won’t complete until they reach the contracted 193 sites, later this year.