Broadband ISP Quickline, which is building a new gigabit-capable full fibre (FTTP) and fixed wireless (5G FWA) network across rural and semi-rural parts of the North East and Midlands of England, has today named three additional villages in South Yorkshire that have just been connected to their new network.
The latest additions include Finningley, Auckley and Blaxton, which are located close to Doncaster. The new fibre across this area is understood to have reached “more than” 2,000 premises (homes and businesses). Customers will typically pay from £29 per month on a 24-month term for 200Mbps speeds (usually 100Mbps) with free installation, and that goes up to £49 for their top 900Mbps (450Mbps upload) tier. The first 3 months of service are also free.
Quickline is being supported by funding of c.£500m from Northleaf Capital Partners, c.£296.4m of public subsidy from Project Gigabit (here, here and here), £225m in term loans and debt guarantees from the UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) and a £25m term loan from NatWest.
The provider ultimately holds an aspiration to cover around 500,000 premises in rural and semi-rural areas across Northern England and beyond with “ultrafast broadband” – via both FTTP and wireless technologies – “by 2025” (here). Some 200,000 of those rural premises will be tackled by their wireless network, with the other half or more coming from FTTP.