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GoFibre to Grow UK Broadband Engineering Fleet by 140 Vehicles

17th September, 2025 (6 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is rolling out a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today signed a new deal with JCT600 Vehicle Leasing Solutions (VLS) to deliver a 140-vehicle fleet in order to support their network deployments.

First UK Project Gigabit Broadband Contract Completes in North Northumberland

12th September, 2025 (2 Comments)

The UK Government have this morning confirmed that GoFibre has become the first network operator to complete one of their subsidised roll-out contracts under the £5bn Project Gigabit broadband rollout scheme. The announcement relates to GoFibre‘s £7.3m (state aid) contract to deploy a full fibre (FTTP) network across 3,750 hard-to-reach premises in North Northumberland.

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Northumberland Council Get £2m Boost for Gigabit Broadband Vouchers

9th September, 2025 (1 Comment)

The Northumberland County Council (NCC) in England has confirmed that it will be able to commit an additional £2m (£0.556m in 2025-26 and £1.444m in 2026-27) to support broadband top-up vouchers (total budget of £3.5m). The aim is to help people in remote rural areas to get a gigabit speed internet connection installed. But there’s a catch.

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ISP GoFibre Hands Out Funding to Northumberland Community Projects

1st September, 2025 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network GoFibre, which is rolling out a gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across remote parts of rural Scotland and Northern England, has today announced the first four charities in North Northumberland to secure investment under their community fund.

GoFibre Connect 500 Customers to FTTP Broadband in Barnard Castle

3rd June, 2025 (3 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK ISP GoFibre has revealed that their roll-out of a new Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network in the County Durham market town of Barnard Castle, which forms part of their £6.6m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract to cover 4,000 hard-to-reach premises in rural Teesdale (here), has now connected over 500 customers.

GoFibre Expands Full Fibre Broadband to Ladykirk and Norham

13th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based alternative network and UK ISP GoFibre, which is busy deploying their new full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband network across rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve expanded their coverage into the Scottish Borders village of Ladykirk and the Northumberland community of Norham.

GoFibre Grows UK FTTP Broadband Customers in Montrose to 1,000

9th May, 2025 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based alternative network and UK ISP GoFibre, which has been building their new full fibre (FTTP) gigabit broadband network across rural parts of Scotland and Northern England, have confirmed that their deployment in the Scottish town of Montrose has connected its 1,000th customer.

CEO of Broadband Altnet GoFibre Becomes Interim Boss of Wildanet UPDATE

14th April, 2025 (2 Comments)

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Edinburgh-based UK alternative broadband network operator and ISP GoFibre, Neil Conaghan, has now quietly also been named as the Interim CEO of network provider Wildanet – they’re doing something similar to GoFibre, albeit at the other end of the United Kingdom.

GoFibre Adopts Calix Platform to Support UK FTTP Broadband Rollout

1st April, 2025 (2 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network operator and ISP GoFibre, which is primarily focused on deploying their new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across parts of remote rural Scotland and Northern England, has announced that it’s adopting more of Calix’s cloud, software, and appliance-based platform to help boost their roll-out.

UK Broadband ISP GoFibre Extend Community Fund to Northumberland

18th March, 2025 (0 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK alternative network ISP GoFibre, which is building a new gigabit broadband (FTTP) network across parts of remote rural Scotland and Northern England, has today announced that they’ve expanded the availability of their GoFurther charity fund to North Northumberland for the very first time.

Alncom Prep £1.4m FTTP Broadband Build in Rothbury, Northumberland

13th March, 2025 (2 Comments)

Rural gigabit broadband ISP Alncom has today announced that they’re working on a £1.4m project to extend their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover over 200 of the hardest to reach premises in and around the remote town of Rothbury in Northumberland (England), which aims to tackle areas that are still “unable to access ultrafast broadband“.

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O2 UK Use Starlink to Bring 4G Mobile to Rural Village of Craster UPDATE

28th January, 2025 (18 Comments)

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has harnessed a Starlink based LEO satellite broadband connection for backhaul capacity in order to successfully expand their 4G mobile coverage across the remote rural Northumberland (England) village of Craster, which they say “previously had no coverage from any mobile operator“; 5G and fibre will follow.

Alncom Teach Kids in Northumberland How to Build FTTP Broadband

12th December, 2024 (3 Comments)

Rural broadband ISP Alncom has today informed ISPreview that they’ve completed the roll-out of a new FTTP broadband network to the rural villages of Craster and Embleton (inc. surrounding areas) in Northumberland (England), covering 1,057 properties. But as part of that they’ve also been teaching local school children how to build the network.

GoFibre Complete FTTP Broadband Build for Harbottle, Northumberland UK

10th December, 2024 (4 Comments)

Edinburgh-based UK ISP GoFibre (BorderLink) has today confirmed that they’ve “completed” their roll-out of a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across the rural Northumberland village of Harbottle, which is home to over 250 people and forms part of their £7.3m Project Gigabit delivery contract (here) to cover 3,750 hard-to-reach premises in the county.

Broadband ISP Grain Extends UK Full Fibre Network into Ashington

27th November, 2024 (2 Comments)

Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect) has announced that they’re expanding their gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network into the town of Ashington in Northumberland (England). The operator’s network currently reaches 220,000 UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and has already connected 30,000 customers.

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Business ISP Commsworld Complete Northumberland’s New Full Fibre Network

25th November, 2024 (1 Comment)

Business UK broadband ISP Commsworld has today announced that they’ve completed the construction of the core network build for a new full fibre infrastructure in Northumberland (England), which is designed to replace the county council’s ageing Wide Area Network (WAN). But local homes, schools and business are also seeing the benefit.

Study Finds Three UK’s 3G Switch-Off Boosted Speeds, But Hurt Coverage

30th October, 2024 (15 Comments)

Mobile network analyst firm Streetwave has used data gathered from across Northumberland (England) and Ceredigion (Wales) to examine the recent switch-off of 3G mobile services in those areas by Three UK, which resulted in median (average) mobile broadband download speeds rising by 22%, but “Essential Coverage” declined by 8%.