{"id":39760,"date":"2024-10-21T07:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=39760"},"modified":"2024-10-21T07:15:02","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T06:15:02","slug":"broadband-isp-grain-to-expand-uk-full-fibre-network-into-cheshire-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/broadband-isp-grain-to-expand-uk-full-fibre-network-into-cheshire-town.html","title":{"rendered":"Broadband ISP Grain to Expand UK Full Fibre Network into Cheshire Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative network operator <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grainconnect.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grain<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/grain\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Grain Connect<\/a>), which has already built their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband network to cover 220,000 UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and connected 30,000 customers, has confirmed that their next expansion target is the industrial Cheshire town of Widnes.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The local roll-out is due to start this month and the first customers could then be connected by &#8220;<em>early 2025<\/em>&#8220;, although it&#8217;s currently unclear precisely how many premises in the town will be reached by this deployment or how long the build will take to complete. Interested customers can pre-register for the service, which will also offer a discounted 1Gbps package with 9 months half price (no payment will be taken until the service is fully set-up).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/grain\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Grain<\/a> has previously secured funding of c. \u00a3220m (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/huge-130m-boost-for-grains-uk-fttp-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>) via Equitix, Albion Capital, Pinnacle Group and German Landesbank Nord L\/B. The operator originally aimed to cover 400,000 UK premises by the end of 2026.<\/div>\n<p>The operators full fibre network can currently also be found in parts of 59 UK locations (plus over 150 new build housing developments), which includes a lot of small-to-modest sized patches of various urban areas like Leicester, Liverpool, Accrington, Grimsby, Cleethorpes, Scarborough, Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, Hartlepool, Newport, Sunderland, Blackburn and so forth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Richard Cameron, CEO at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/grain\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Grain<\/a> Broadband, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re excited to offer Widnes residents an internet service that can keep up with their digital lives. We\u2019re not just delivering faster internet; we are also saving customers a significant amount on their monthly broadband bill. Whether you\u2019re streaming your favourite shows, working from home or gaming, we\u2019re helping to build a more connected Widnes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Naturally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/grain\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Grain<\/a> won&#8217;t be the only gigabit-capable broadband network in a town the size of Widnes, which is already heavily covered by rival services from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/nexfibre\" target=\"_blank\">nexfibre<\/a>) and <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>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternative network operator Grain (Grain Connect), which has already built their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to cover 220,000 UK premises RFS (21st May 2024) and connected 30,000 customers, has confirmed that their next expansion target is the industrial Cheshire town of Widnes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[432,56],"class_list":["post-39760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-cheshire","tag-fttp"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/113343948594100108","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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