{"id":10938,"date":"2016-01-13T16:56:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T16:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:18:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:18:44","slug":"rural-fttp-broadband-isp-gigaclear-gets-25m-euros-loan-to-expand-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/rural-fttp-broadband-isp-gigaclear-gets-25m-euros-loan-to-expand-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Rural Broadband ISP Gigaclear Gets 25m Euro Loan to Expand Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ultrafast fibre optic ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>, which is rolling out a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband network to rural communities across the United Kingdom, has bagged some additional investment in the form of a \u20ac25m loan.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So far <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>&#8217;s network has already become available to roughly 15,000 homes and businesses in rural parts of Oxfordshire, Essex, Kent, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Rutland and Gloucestershire in England.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that the ISP, which currently owns and operates 56 rural fibre networks (plus 35 under construction), has also signed a number of Government (state aid) supported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Broadband Delivery UK<\/a> contracts (e.g. Gloucestershire \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/08\/gigaclear-confirms-first-cotswolds-homes-for-1gbps-fttp-broadband.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, Essex \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/06\/gigaclear-deal-brings-1gbps-fttp-broadband-to-4500-premises-in-essex.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and Berkshire \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/07\/gigaclear-secure-1gbps-fttp-broadband-rollout-deal-for-berkshire-uk.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> etc.) and they hope to reach approximately <strong>40,000 premises<\/strong> by the end of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>However beyond that they also have commercial plans to reach another 30-40K premises (around 80,000 total), which is likely to require further investment. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> has already managed to attract <strong>\u00a348.6 million<\/strong> in investment and now they&#8217;re about to get another \u20ac25m (\u00a318m) via a loan.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/6fa605d8-b9f2-11e5-b151-8e15c9a029fb.html#axzz3x8rveDLb\" target=\"_blank\">FT<\/a> states that most of this loan will be coming from the <strong>European Investment Bank<\/strong> (EIB) and indeed it&#8217;s said to be the EIB&#8217;s &#8220;<em>first targeted support for rural communications in the UK<\/em>&#8220;, as well as also being the maximum available under their <strong>InnovFin<\/strong> (EU finance for innovators) mid-cap growth finance scheme.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Matthew Hare, CEO of Gigaclear, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We\u2019re transforming lives and businesses, giving people access to the fastest internet speeds to be found anywhere in the world and technologically future-proofing these rural communities for years<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One problem with the big spender approach to infrastructure development is that it will still take a long time to recoup the investment, not that this appears to worry Gigaclear or any of the other fibre optic ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>Investors often seem able to see the long-term potential of fibre optic connectivity, which has also attracted them to other operators like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/hyperopticfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperoptic<\/a>. Assuming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> doesn&#8217;t negatively upset that market too much with their Strategic Review then there&#8217;s no reason why this shouldn&#8217;t continue.<\/p>\n<p>At this point it&#8217;s worth reminding our readers of Gigaclear\u2019s &#8220;<em>medium-term<\/em>&#8221; target from their 2014 AIM float: &#8220;<em>The Company\u2019s target, assuming capital of \u00a3180 million (including the proceeds of the Placing) is deployed over the medium-term, is to make ultrafast fibre broadband available to 200,000 rural properties<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere the ISP is currently gearing up to trial a new <strong>5Gbps<\/strong> (5000Mbps) broadband service (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/11\/wowzers-uk-isp-gigaclear-trial-5000mbps-fibre-optic-broadband-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), not that any home users have a need for such performance, but the bragging rights are probably worth the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ultrafast fibre optic ISP Gigaclear, which is rolling out a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to rural communities across the United Kingdom, has bagged some additional investment in the form of a \u20ac25m loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[471,472,65,56,416],"class_list":["post-10938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-business","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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