{"id":40088,"date":"2024-11-21T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40088"},"modified":"2024-11-21T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T12:24:08","slug":"accounts-for-uk-broadband-isp-airband-highlight-funding-risks-and-job-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/11\/accounts-for-uk-broadband-isp-airband-highlight-funding-risks-and-job-cuts.html","title":{"rendered":"Accounts for UK Broadband ISP Airband Highlight Funding Risks and Job Cuts UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural broadband ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/airband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Airband<\/a>, which has deployed a full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) and wireless (FWA) broadband network that covers parts of Wales and South West England, recently published their latest accounts to the end of 2023 and revealed a sharp fall in employees (from 485 to 235) and the urgent need for new funding by 1st February 2025.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The operator recently stated that their broadband network now spans \u201c<em>more than 440,000 premises in over 200 communities across 7 counties<\/em>\u201c (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/airband-uk-begin-deploying-tarana-400mbps-wireless-broadband-tech.html\">here<\/a>), which we&#8217;re told breaks down as being 175,000 premises via \u201c<em>fibre<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) and 265,000 premises via wireless (FWA) &#8211; all Ready for Service (RFS).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/airband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Airband<\/a> is backed by investor <strong>abrdn<\/strong>, which has put over \u00a3200m into growing the business.<\/div>\n<p>However, the company has also had a rough couple of years, which saw recent restructuring impact their pace of build and result in redundancies as they shifted their focus toward growing take-up via greater commercialisation of their existing network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/01\/airband-restructuring-puts-pressure-on-jobs-and-uk-fibre-build.html\">here<\/a>). One of the other fallouts from this was the recent move to scale-back their deployment contract with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.connectingdevonandsomerset.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Connecting Devon and Somerset<\/a> (CDS) programme (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/devon-and-somerset-uk-broadband-project-scales-back-airband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/airband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Airband<\/a>&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk\/company\/07114545\/filing-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest accounts<\/a> show that the operator has now spent a total of \u00a3207m on their network build to-date (up by \u00a372m in 2023 alone) and is at risk of running out of funding. &#8220;<em>The revised funding requirements of the business exceeds the current available facilities and new funding will be required by 1st February 2025<\/em>,&#8221; said the results.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the problems, the company&#8217;s Directors said they remain confident that &#8220;<em>further strategic funding will be secured to allow the Group and Company to continue in operation for at least until 1st November 2025<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #339966;\"><strong>Summary of Key Airband Figures to Dec 2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 Revenues of \u00a34.857m (up 41% this year vs 28% last year)<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 Operating loss of \u00a337.064m (2022: \u00a320.972m)<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 Total assets of \u00a3181.92m (2022: \u00a3151.14m)<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 Total liabilities of \u00a3159.83m (2022: \u00a3116.41m)<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 Shareholder funds of \u00a322.086m (2022: \u00a334.73m)<\/p>\n<p>\u27a4 Closing cash balance of \u00a34.946m (2022: \u00a315.809m)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 12:20pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had a comment from Airband.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Kash Rahman, MD at Airband, told ISPreview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Abrdn remain supportive investors and have to date put \u00a3200m in to the business to fund our future plans.<\/p>\n<p>We are performing well and are actively engaged with Abrdn as we approach the next phase of funding.<\/p>\n<p>The accounts are in line with previous years and the cadence of funding put into the business in the first quarter of the year.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rural broadband ISP Airband, which has deployed a full fibre (FTTP) and wireless (FWA) broadband network that covers parts of Wales and South West England, recently published their latest accounts to the end of 2023 and revealed a sharp fall in employees (from 485 to 235) and the urgent need for new funding by 1st [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,56,476],"class_list":["post-40088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-fttp","tag-wifi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/113518010442810253","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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