{"id":36622,"date":"2023-12-15T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=36622"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:09:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:09:25","slug":"rural-uk-broadband-isp-gigaclear-secure-1-5bn-debt-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/12\/rural-uk-broadband-isp-gigaclear-secure-1-5bn-debt-facility.html","title":{"rendered":"Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Secure \u00a31.5bn Debt Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon-based rural broadband ISP <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"gigaclear\">Gigaclear<\/a>, which has already extended their gigabit speed full fibre (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"fttp\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a>) network to cover 500,000 premises (430k Ready for Service) across parts of 26 counties in England, has today secured a major new debt facility of up to \u00a31.5bn to help fuel their roll-out.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Just to recap. The provider, which is currently home to over 80,000 customers (20th July 2023) and employs more than 750 people across eight office locations, currently holds an ambition to cover \u201c<em>over<\/em>\u201d 1 million premises by 2027. But despite the current investor apathy in the sector, they&#8217;ve still been able to secure a new debt facility.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE: <\/strong><a class=\"shortlink shortlink-40\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"gigaclear\">Gigaclear<\/a> is principally owned by Infracapital, together with Equitix and Railpen, and previously had investment commitments estimated to be worth up to around \u00a31.1bn (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/06\/gigaclear-raise-full-fibre-target-to-1-million-uk-premises-on-funding-boost.html\">here<\/a>).<\/div>\n<p>The new debt facility is split between an upfront facility of c.\u00a31bn and an uncommitted accordion of c.\u00a3500m. The facility is provided by a consortium of banks comprising ABN AMRO, Credit Industriel et Commercial, HSBC, Kommunalkredit, LBBW, Lloyds, NatWest, NAB, NIBC, and SEB. The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) also provided its guarantee product, covering \u00a3240m of commitments.<\/p>\n<p>The facility will naturally be used to accelerate the company&#8217;s long-term build plans. Gigaclear was advised on the transaction by Rothschild &amp; Co and Latham &amp; Watkins, Clifford Chance acted as legal counsel to the lenders.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Gigaclear CEO, Gareth Williams, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy securing this debt funding, we\u2019ve shown that despite high levels of volatility in the sector there remains an appetite among lenders to support fibre operators that can demonstrate a robust business model. Not only is it an endorsement of Gigaclear\u2019s mission to take its full fibre broadband to underserved, rural communities across England but it is also reflection of the great things being achieved by the team at Gigaclear.<\/p>\n<p>Gigaclear\u2019s resolve to reach more than one million premises by 2027 is supported by this announcement, which is nothing less than a vote of confidence in us successfully achieving our goal.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Residential customers on the network typically pay from \u00a317 a month (\u00a341.50 after 18-months) for a symmetric 200Mbps broadband package, which rises to \u00a349 (\u00a382 after 18-months) for their top 830Mbps plan. All packages include a wireless router and free installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon-based rural broadband ISP Gigaclear, which has already extended their gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 500,000 premises (430k Ready for Service) across parts of 26 counties in England, has today secured a major new debt facility of up to \u00a31.5bn to help fuel their roll-out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,416],"class_list":["post-36622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/111584999633411746","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rural UK Broadband ISP Gigaclear Secure \u00a31.5bn Debt Facility - 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