{"id":43065,"date":"2025-09-10T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=43065"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T16:01:31","slug":"altnet-broadband-isp-lightning-fibre-expand-fttp-cover-on-cityfibres-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/09\/altnet-broadband-isp-lightning-fibre-expand-fttp-cover-on-cityfibres-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Altnet Broadband ISP Lightning Fibre Expand FTTP Cover on CityFibre&#8217;s Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eastbourne-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lightningfibre.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lightning Fibre<\/a>, which is building a new gigabit speed full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) service across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has today announced that they&#8217;ve also expanded their existing wholesale partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> to help them reach &#8220;<em>thousands of new premises<\/em>&#8221; in towns across the South Coast of England.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The altnet, which has built to a number of locations like Eastbourne, Brighton and Hove, Worthing, Lancing, Hastings and St Leonards, Heathfield, Hellingly and Broad Oak, Hailsham and Polegate, originally planned to cover 140,000 premises with their gigabit-capable network. But it remains unclear how many premises they\u2019ve reached, and they\u2019ve since had to slow their network build due to various challenges (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/fibre-broadband-isp-lightning-fibre-uk-goes-into-administration.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/lightning-fibre-slows-down-uk-fttp-broadband-network-build-and-cuts-jobs.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/lightningfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lightning Fibre<\/a> was acquired by existing backer <strong>Foresight Group<\/strong> in early 2024 and put under a new company called LF Holdco2 Ltd. The same group also backs other altnets, such as <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-250\" title=\"Connect Fibre\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/connectfibre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Connect Fibre<\/a> and F&amp;W Networks.<\/div>\n<p>However, last year saw the provider join <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a>&#8217;s national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> network in order to expand their off-net reach (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/08\/altnet-broadband-isp-lightning-fibre-join-cityfibres-uk-wholesale-network.html\">here<\/a>), although their initial coverage expansion under this agreement was limited to the Brighton &amp; Hove and Worthing areas. But today&#8217;s announcement confirms an expansion of that partnership, which will &#8220;<em>soon<\/em>&#8221; see their retail broadband packages becoming available to premises in <strong>Polegate<\/strong>, <strong>Eastbourne<\/strong> and <strong>Hastings<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a vertically integrated network operator with its own fibre network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/lightningfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lightning Fibre<\/a> said they would continue to use their own infrastructure where available. The wholesale agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> enables it to significantly expand its serviceable footprint, &#8220;<em>enabling it to acquire new customers and retain more home movers<\/em>&#8221; (reducing churn).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Rob Reaks, Chief Commercial Officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/lightningfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Lightning Fibre<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are delighted to be able to extend our footprint by leveraging CityFibre\u2019s robust infrastructure. This agreement will enable us to reach even more homes and businesses with ultrafast and ultra-reliable full fibre technology.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>George Wareing, Chief Sales Officer at CityFibre, added:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to see Lightning Fibre build on their success over our network. With CityFibre infrastructure across the South East, they now have a far larger footprint over which to offer their services, and residents and businesses will now have an even greater choice of provider.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastbourne-based alternative broadband network and UK ISP Lightning Fibre, which is building a new gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) service across parts of Sussex and Kent in England, has today announced that they&#8217;ve also expanded their existing wholesale partnership with CityFibre to help them reach &#8220;thousands of new premises&#8221; in towns across the South Coast [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,56,460,469],"class_list":["post-43065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-cityfibre","tag-fttp","tag-kent","tag-sussex"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ispreview\/115180843377654340","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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