{"id":21821,"date":"2020-04-03T14:02:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=21821"},"modified":"2020-04-03T15:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T14:06:35","slug":"rural-isp-gigaclear-signs-525m-long-term-funding-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/04\/rural-isp-gigaclear-signs-525m-long-term-funding-strategy.html","title":{"rendered":"Rural ISP Gigaclear Signs \u00a3525m Long-Term Funding Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural UK full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>, which since last year has been working with their investment partner Infracapital to develop a &#8220;<em>long-term funding strategy<\/em>&#8221; (including an assessment of further debt funding), has today confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they&#8217;ve secured \u00a3525m in financing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The provider is currently still in the recovery phase after many of their projects&#8217; suffered significant deployment delays during 2018-2019, which followed various problems with resources, planning and management. The situation also resulted in the loss of a significant 1Gbps <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) roll-out contract across <strong>Devon<\/strong> and <strong>Somerset<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/09\/devon-and-somerset-uk-scrap-gigaclear-fttp-broadband-contract.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>&#8217;s original ambition was to cover 350,000 rural premises with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> by the end of 2021, then 500,000 by 2025 (they&#8217;ve so far done 129,000 but some may not be live).<\/div>\n<p>However, since early last year, a lot of work has gone toward putting the operator back on the right track and steady progress is now being made. As part of that the operator&#8217;s CFO, <strong>Ian Wade<\/strong>, has been busy behind the scenes developing a new long-term funding strategy and the fruits of that are now coming to light.<\/p>\n<p>As we understand it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> has secured <strong>\u00a3525m<\/strong> in financing from Lloyds, Natwest, Santander and ABN Amro. The package consists of a \u00a3480m seven-year capital expenditure facility and a \u00a345m revolving credit facility.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Gareth Williams, CEO of Gigaclear, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are really pleased to have concluded the debt funding as outlined in last year&#8217;s annual report. We would like to thank our shareholders for their continual support, and to welcome the Banks, as they provide the funding for the next stage of our exciting story. The funding will be invested in the expansion of our network.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We should point out that the ISP hasn&#8217;t put out a huge announcement about this development, which would normally attract a lot more publicity. The operator felt as if, given the current COVID-19 (Coronavirus) crisis, a bigger announcement at this time might not have been appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless this is a significant development for the provider and one that should help to secure their future roll-out plans. We hope to get more details once things start getting back to normal around the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP Gigaclear, which since last year has been working with their investment partner Infracapital to develop a &#8220;long-term funding strategy&#8221; (including an assessment of further debt funding), has today confirmed to ISPreview.co.uk that they&#8217;ve secured \u00a3525m in financing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[65,56,416],"class_list":["post-21821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rural ISP Gigaclear Signs \u00a3525m Long-Term Funding Strategy - 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