{"id":40960,"date":"2025-02-18T08:49:27","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=40960"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T09:01:54","slug":"gigaclear-start-new-oxfordshire-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/gigaclear-start-new-oxfordshire-uk-project-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"Gigaclear Start New Oxfordshire UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon-based rural ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> has today announced that they&#8217;ve kicked off the construction phase of their \u00a325.4m (state aid) Project Gigabit contracts for South Oxfordshire (Lot 13.01 \u2013 c.5,500 premises) and North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02 \u2013 c.4,200 premises), which will extend their full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband network to around 9,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The contracts were first awarded back in November 2023 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/11\/gigabit-broadband-contracts-awarded-for-oxfordshire-and-staffordshire-uk.html\">here<\/a>) and at that point it was stated by the Government&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/bduk\" target=\"_blank\">Building Digital UK<\/a> (BDUK) agency that the &#8220;<em>first premises under these contracts are anticipated to have access to gigabit-capable broadband in 2024<\/em>&#8220;. But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> has clearly taken a bit longer than that to enter the build phase, and it&#8217;s currently unclear when the first homes will go live.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Project Gigabit aims to help extend 1Gbps capable (download) broadband networks to reach \u201c<em>nationwide<\/em>\u201d UK coverage (c. 99%) by around 2030 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/gov-targets-universal-uk-gigabit-broadband-coverage-for-2030.html\">here<\/a>) \u2013 the UK is currently at about the 86% coverage mark today (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/01\/2024-h2-uk-coverage-of-gigabit-broadband-nears-86-percent.html\">here<\/a>). The focus of this effort is on the final 10-20% of hardest to reach premises (usually rural areas).<\/div>\n<p>Both contracts will see the installation of over 250km of new cable ducts, and 50% of the project will be delivered using existing infrastructure (e.g. running new fibre existing cable ducts and poles). The Oxfordshire build is now underway and is expected to be completed by <strong>November 2026<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a> has previously indicated that this deployment will complement their existing (commercial) \u00a384m investment across the whole of Oxfordshire.<\/p>\n<p>Customers of the new service, once live, can expect to pay from \u00a319 per month for symmetric speeds of 300Mbps on an 18-month minimum term (\u00a346 thereafter), which rises to \u00a334 per month for their top 900Mbps tier (\u00a382 thereafter).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Gigaclear\u2019s CEO, Nathan Rundle, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere at Gigaclear we\u2019ve made it our mission to bring full fibre ultrafast broadband to Britain\u2019s rural communities, and this is exactly what Project Gigabit has been set up to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>We have already made a significant investment in building our network in Oxfordshire and as a local business based in Abingdon, it is really important to us that we continue to improve digital inclusion in the county, and to bring our home-grown full fibre broadband to local residents.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Telecoms Minister, Sir Chris Bryant, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is so much our modern digital world has to offer \u2013 from online healthcare to keeping in touch with friends and family \u2013 but a lack of fast and reliable broadband has excluded some communities in Oxfordshire from so many of these benefits.<\/p>\n<p>It is great to see that, as part of this Government\u2019s Plan for Change, we are helping to plug some of the digital gaps in North and South Oxfordshire and getting one step closer to realising our ambition to achieve full gigabit coverage by 2030.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Gigaclear is principally owned by <strong>Infracapital<\/strong>, together with <strong>Equitix<\/strong> and <strong>Railpen<\/strong>. The company 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>) and, at the end of 2023, also secured a \u00a31.5bn debt facility (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/12\/rural-uk-broadband-isp-gigaclear-secure-1-5bn-debt-facility.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The operator previously held an ambition to cover \u201c<em>over<\/em>\u201d 1 million UK premises by 2027, but it&#8217;s unclear how much this was impacted after last year&#8217;s job cuts (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/09\/gigaclear-to-cut-150-jobs-as-uk-rural-full-fibre-broadband-build-slows.html\">here<\/a>). This came as part of \u201c<em>planning for the next stage of its development<\/em>\u201d and a \u201c<em>re-focus on ultra-rural areas<\/em>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>The operator is reportedly now on the hunt to find new funding in order to help continue their full fibre network deployments across the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/02\/gigaclear-advisors-to-hunt-fresh-funding-for-rural-uk-broadband-build.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abingdon-based rural ISP Gigaclear has today announced that they&#8217;ve kicked off the construction phase of their \u00a325.4m (state aid) Project Gigabit contracts for South Oxfordshire (Lot 13.01 \u2013 c.5,500 premises) and North Oxfordshire (Lot 13.02 \u2013 c.4,200 premises), which will extend their full fibre (FTTP) broadband network to around 9,500 premises in hard-to-reach areas.<\/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":[471,56,416,434,38,1997],"class_list":["post-40960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear","tag-oxfordshire","tag-politics","tag-uk-gigabit-programme"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/114024033198767904","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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