{"id":18264,"date":"2019-03-25T07:35:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T07:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=18264"},"modified":"2019-03-26T09:52:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T09:52:37","slug":"full-fibre-isp-start-up-toob-secure-75m-investment-for-uk-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/full-fibre-isp-start-up-toob-secure-75m-investment-for-uk-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"Full Fibre ISP Start-up toob Secure \u00a375m Investment for UK Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Portsmouth-based ISP called <a href=\"http:\/\/toob.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">toob<\/a>, which we reported last month had been created by several of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>&#8217;s former directors and planned to roll-out a 900Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>) broadband network to 100,000 UK premises by the end of 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/02\/new-isp-toob-planning-uk-full-fibre-gigabit-broadband-network.html\">here<\/a>), has secured a huge investment of \u00a375m.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The funding itself stems from the <strong>Amber Infrastructure<\/strong> backed <strong>National Digital Infrastructure Fund<\/strong> (NDIF), which is a commercial fund that is also being supported by the Government&#8217;s \u00a3400m <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/07\/uk-gov-start-400m-digital-infrastructure-fund-boost-full-fibre-broadband.html\"><strong>Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund<\/strong><\/a> (DIIF). Both are focused on supporting the construction of alternative &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; broadband ISP networks.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/toob\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">toob<\/a> aims to enter into the increasingly crowded market for providers seeking to &#8220;<em>build and operate a full fibre network in towns and cities across the UK<\/em>&#8220;. The operator also expects to make some use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>\u2019s existing cable ducts and poles to help deploy their network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/challenges-remain-as-openreach-improve-uk-cable-duct-and-pole-access.html\"><strong>Physical Infrastructure Access<\/strong><\/a>) and says they&#8217;d be willing to share access to this once built (provided it makes commercial sense to do so).<\/p>\n<p>The provider also has a longer term ambition to expand its full fibre network to pass more than 1 million homes and business over the next 10 years, although that would require significantly more investment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Nick Parbutt, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/toob\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">toob<\/a>&#8217;s CEO, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to be partnering with Amber Infrastructure and to have secured Charles as Chairman. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/toob\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">toob<\/a> now has the right people, the right plan and the right funding in place to capitalise on the exciting opportunity ahead of us. We want to enable families, businesses and communities to live, work and play in ways which are only made possible with the advent of gigabit broadband.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Chris Hogg, Investment Director at Amber, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to be partnering with such an experienced team at toob. Nick, Mike, Charles and the team at toob have extensive telecoms and fibre experience and we are looking forward to accelerating toob&#8217;s fibre network deployment with our funding.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Securing \u00a375m before the provider has even built any infrastructure of its own is an impressive feat, which most likely reflects the high level of on-going investor attraction toward new UK fibre optic infrastructure and the confidence that Amber has in toob&#8217;s management team; almost all of which previously held senior positions within <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>&#8217;s UK fixed line and wholesale divisions etc.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand there&#8217;s clearly a risk here with so many new &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; ISPs cropping up and seemingly choosing to target the same urban markets as so many others, including the larger players like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/hyperopticfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperoptic<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n<p>Sooner or later we&#8217;re going to see winners and losers from this fight (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>\/H is expensive to do and the payback can take many years), which will inevitably be followed by some degree of consolidation. However it&#8217;s still early days and as yet we don&#8217;t know precisely where toob will seek to target or whether it can find enough skilled engineers \/ contractors to do the job (this remains a problem for most new operators).<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless toob aim to have their first customers connected by the end of 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Portsmouth-based ISP called toob, which we reported last month had been created by several of Vodafone&#8217;s former directors and planned to roll-out a 900Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to 100,000 UK premises by the end of 2021 (here), has secured a huge investment of \u00a375m.<\/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":[65,56,431],"class_list":["post-18264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-hampshire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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