Lit Fibre UK Add 3 More Towns to Full Fibre Broadband Rollout

Broadband ISP Lit Fibre, which aims to cover 500,000 UK homes by 2026 with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, has today added three new towns in England to their rollout programme – Chipping Sodbury and Yate in South Gloucestershire and Warminster in Wiltshire.

The provider, which began their rollout last year and is being backed by an equity investment from Newlight Partners LP, is currently deploying their network to cover numerous towns in several of England’s counties (e.g. Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Hertfordshire, Worcestershire, Essex, Suffolk and the Midlands). So far, parts of 12 towns have already gone live and 20 are in their plan.

However, the addition of Chipping Sodbury, Yate and Warminster will ultimately see Lit Fibre’s network extend across another 26,000 homes, once the build has completed. But the provider won’t be the only gigabit-capable broadband network in these locations, with operators like Openreach and Netomnia, among others, targeting the same areas.

Tom Williams, CEO of Lit Fibre, said:

“We are absolutely committed to supporting towns and communities across the country and we are delighted that residents in Chipping Sodbury, Yate and Warminster will soon be able to move away from the incumbent unaffordable and unreliable services and gain access to our supercharged broadband.

We are connecting these communities to gigabit symmetrical speeds, without compromise, and accelerating Lit Fibre towards deploying a rock-solid network to 500,000 homes by 2026.”

Residential customers on their full fibre network currently pay from £27 per month on an 18-month term (£30 thereafter) for their unlimited 100Mbps package (includes a free install, symmetric speeds and a Wi-Fi 6 router), which rises to £58 (£65 thereafter) for 900Mbps (average).