{"id":34427,"date":"2023-05-13T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T23:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=34427"},"modified":"2023-05-13T06:29:48","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T05:29:48","slug":"isp-country-connect-expands-full-fibre-cover-to-3709-premises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/05\/isp-country-connect-expands-full-fibre-cover-to-3709-premises.html","title":{"rendered":"ISP Country Connect Expands Full Fibre Cover to 3,709 Premises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative network provider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.country-connect.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Country Connect<\/a>, which since 2021 has been building a new gigabit capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband network in South Wales (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/05\/country-connect-bring-full-fibre-to-ponthir-or-caerleon-in-wales.html\">here<\/a>), has confirmed that their relatively small and rural-focused network now covers 3,709 premises (up from 2,750 in April 2022).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ISP first started building across the village of <strong>Ponthir<\/strong> and town of <strong>Caerleon<\/strong>, although they&#8217;ve since expanded to include parts of <strong>Usk<\/strong> and have another 166 homes currently in build (due to be completed by the end of Q2 2023). A good chunk of this new fibre is being run via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>&#8217;s existing cable ducts and poles using PIA (Physical Infrastructure Access).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> The premises passed figure of 3,709 are all said to be Ready for Service (RFS).<\/div>\n<p>The provider, which is &#8220;<em>very proud<\/em>&#8221; of being a &#8220;<em>micro-entity altnet<\/em>&#8221; that focuses on poorly serve communities, has also managed to grow their customer base to 745 (i.e. take-up of 21%) and they&#8217;re currently adding another 35 subscribers per month. &#8220;<em>We are not setting the world alight, but we are consistently delivering across our very small coverage area<\/em>,&#8221; said Mark Tomlinson, CEO of Country Connect.<\/p>\n<p>However, the provider is admittedly still a bit behind their previous target, which last year was set at reaching a total of 5,000 premises (RFS) by 1st September 2022. Tomlinson confirmed that they&#8217;ve had to revise their build schedule after suffering from some of the same strains as other networks, thus they now expect to reach 4,500 premises (RFS) by the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, customers of the service tend to pay from \u00a325 per month for a 100Mbps (symmetric) package, which rises to \u00a359.99 for their top 900Mbps package (500Mbps upload). 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