Scale Up

Alncom has detailed plans to connect a further 25,000 rural premises in Northumberland to full fibre, making three Directorial hires to spur this growth.

Having spent 2021 in preparation mode, Digital Infrastructure is ready to weather the ‘perfect storm’ presented to fibre providers and scale at pace during 2022.

Borderlink Broadband began life in 2017 when Kiwi Alex Cacciamani moved to Duns, Scotland and found himself hamstrung by a lack of good digital connectivity.

Emtelle, a manufacturer of blown fibre, cabling and ducted solutions, is expanding into Wrexham to meet the increasing demands of UK network operators.

Neos Networks has enjoyed extraordinary growth since its rebrand and strategic rebirth last year – expanding its aggregation network, making big strides in underpinning Three UK’s 5G strategy, and charging ahead with high capacity mission critical connectivity.

Borderlink, which trades as GoFibre, has received a further £164m investment from Gresham House to accelerate its full fibre rollout in Scotland and the north of England.

Lothian Broadband’s mission to tackle digital inequity in rural Scotland has been given a £20m boost by The Scottish National Investment Bank.

Bath-based Truespeed has secured a second tranche of funding from Aviva Investors.

Toob's FTTP rollout in the south west has been given an £87.5m funding boost by Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund.

Gigaclear has secured a further £190m funding to support its rural full fibre rollout, which aims to connect 500k premises by 2023.