The Horsham-based Telecom Acquisitions Group (TAL), which is a holding company for several familiar UK residential broadband brands (Home Telecom, Eclipse Broadband etc.), has today announced that they’ve acquired the remaining residential customers of ISP Gigabit Networks that were on CityFibre and FullFibre Ltd. networks.
In case anybody has forgotten, TAL first announced in June 2024 (here) that they’d acquired the CityFibre (FTTP) linked residential customer base of ISP Gigabit Networks (here), which left the retail ISP to focus on the business connectivity (wholesale etc.) side of their operations. The move impacted some 2,000 customers.
The change today is that TAL have now purchased the remaining residential customers that were on both the CityFibre and FullFibre Limited networks, which in total represents an additional circa 2,300 customers. As usual, the acquired base will be switched to TAL’s Home Telecom ISP brand, which pledges to “respect and honour the customers current prices and terms and conditions.”
This is on top of a record month in July 2024, which saw the group deliver 3,748 new sales through organic growth (some 500 of that alone came from new customers via MS3’s full fibre network) – putting them ahead of their forecast for the 2024/2025 year.
Nigel Barnett, TAL CEO, said:
“We are really pleased with the further acquisition of the remaining customer from David Yates Gigabit Networks. The first tranche of customers migrated very successfully with no loss of service or customers, allowed us to obtain the remaining residential base. Going forward with our organic growth, we will still look towards any further possible acquisitions whatever the size to complement our growth.”
The TAL Group is now home to over 100,000 broadband customers and has returned a turnover of £40m.