CityFibre has completed its primary build in Reading with the network now ready for service to over 97,000 homes, covering around 98% of premises in the town and the surrounding areas.
Wed, 28/05/2025 - 10:22
Wildanet will begin a phased retirement of its legacy Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) network as it focuses on rolling our full fibre across Cornwall.
The company began life as an FWA provider in Cornwall in 2017, however much of the equipment supporting the original network is now approaching the end of its operation life and has become increasingly prone to failure, making it no longer economically viable to maintain or upgrade.
As a result, earlier this year Wildanet started a project to assist affected customers to transition to an alternative broadband service, in advance of the FWA phase-out.
The original timeline to decommission parts of the FWA network was scheduled for June 2025, but this has now been postponed to 31 October.
Wildanet’s legacy FWA network is separate from its new full fibre rollout which is being funded separately. The external funding Wildanet is receiving is exclusively for the rollout of full fibre in locations specified by the contracts.
Simon Hughes, CCO at Wildanet, said: “While the FWA service was an important part of the foundation and early development of Wildanet, some of the supporting infrastructure is no longer economically viable to maintain or upgrade and as a result we have made the difficult decision to retire parts of this older network and focus our efforts on delivering new, more reliable broadband technology.”
