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Telecommunications infrastructure provider and licensed UK retail service provider Teleauora has revealed that they’re seeing new powers from Ofcom to help provide customers with “gigabit-capable fibre and wireless” broadband services – focusing on residential homes, offices, and business estates, in rural and urban areas across the UK.
In order to do this, the operator is first seeking Code Powers from Ofcom, which are typically pursued to help speed-up deployments of new fibre networks and cut costs, not least by reducing the number of licences needed for street works. The powers can also help with supporting access to run new fibre via Openreach’s (BT) existing cable ducts and poles (PIA).
The application doesn’t reveal much, but it does state that the operator’s network is a fixed wireless 5G MMWave setup, which will utilise fibre backhaul and fronthaul infrastructure to connect 5G radio access points. Teleauora will also “rely on Openreach’s physical infrastructure (PIA) services to install ducting and will use highway and/or private land where PIA is not available“.
According to the document, the company intends to provide businesses and consumers with connectivity in rural and urban locations, with an “aim to reach 20,000 customers in the first twelve months“. But no information is provided on where this deployment is expected to take place. Teleauora’s primary focus here seems to be to deliver “high speed fixed wireless wholesale networks“, which will in turn also feed retail connections. The company’s website also states: “Retail Services coming soon!”
The company itself (details) appears to have been first incorporated on 24th April 2025 and is being run by two Directors – Sabtir Singh Thakral and Matthew John Harrison. Hopefully more details will emerge in the future. Ofcom rarely rejects such applications.