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Carlisle-based broadband ISP Grain, which recently secured a major £225m funding boost to continue their expansion (here), has today announced that they’ve added the Lancashire (England) town of Nelson – home to a population of almost 30,000 people – to their build plan for a new full fibre (FTTP) network.
Nelson is an interesting choice given the existing collection of networks. For example, both Openreach and Virgin Media (nexfibre) have already covered most of the area with gigabit-capable broadband. At the same time, Netomnia (Brsk) are known to be actively building in the town and IX Wireless also sells ultrafast broadband via their hybrid wireless network. The ITS Technology Group’s network is also present on a local business estate.
As for Grain, the announcement doesn’t reveal anything much about their deployment plan for the town, although we can see that they’ve already covered a few premises around the Vantage Court area. But other than that, we’re currently unable to identify any significant future build activity from them in the town, which will hopefully change over the coming days or weeks.
The operator’s FTTP broadband network is currently home to over 43,000 customers and covers 270,000 UK premises (aiming to reach 600,000 in the future).