Alternative fibre optic ISP Brsk, which is currently in the final stages of being merged into Netomnia’s network (here), has reportedly confirmed that approximately 50,000 homes and businesses across the South Yorkshire (England) market town of Barnsley will be the next to benefit from their roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband.
The town is already well covered by Virgin Media’s (inc. nexfibre) gigabit-broadband network, while Openreach also has a significant level of FTTP coverage and CityFibre is similarly present in a big part of the town. After that, there are some much smaller patches from other altnets, like Hyperoptic and OFNL. Grain had also previously listed Barnsley as a target for their broadband network in 2023, but we have yet to see any live services.
According to the Barnsley Chronicle, Brsk will aim to cover 50,000 premises across the town, although the report doesn’t indicate when or where this service will start to go live, or even when the roll-out is expected to finally reach completion.
The soon-to-be-combined network of Netomnia and Brsk has so far covered a total of 2.08 million premises (ready for service) across parts of over 90 UK cities and towns, and they also have a customer base of 238,000. The pair is currently aiming to expand their full fibre network to cover 3 million UK premises by the end of 2025 (inc. 1 million customers by 2028).