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The Future of Airband

WilliamGrimsley

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It may be just me, but from recent Airband articles on here and comments on their Facebook page, it seems like they are struggling. I can no longer see the comments on one of their Facebook posts (it seems they become invisible after a certain period of time), but they mentioned that they are to give an update to people via email who have expressed interest in Devon and other areas. That doesn't sound good to me.

I hope this is not the start of the end of Airband as they have installed a lot of fibre in my area including a CBT (or similar) on the pole outside of our property, but we still cannot order FTTP from them. Thankfully, Openreach plan to make our property live in the coming months, so that we will hopefully no longer have to use Starlink to get a decent internet connection.

I think we should hold on until Openreach instead of investing in a company that may soon go bust.

Your thoughts?



EDIT: Added recent ISPreview article & link to 2022 accounts PDF.
 
Apparently they got some money to tide them over their financial woes for the time being:


If you take service from them, you wouldn't be "investing". Even if they did go bust, most likely the administrator would sell their network and customers to another company (who would provide you with service for the remainder of your contract period). At worst, they would simply release you from your contract, and you could go order service from someone else.

You don't really have anything to lose, except perhaps a second hole in your wall if you switch to Openreach.
I think we should hold on until Openreach
That's entirely up to you: but this is all hypothetical if neither Airband nor Openreach is offering you service yet.
 
Thanks, @candlerb

Wrong use of word there by me of "investing". It will be interesting to see who will win the race, I wouldn't like to see Airband go under and hope they can improve themselves and their financial situation!
 
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