Freedom Fibre has distributed thousands of pounds to good and green causes in areas where it is rolling out its lightning-fast, full-fibre broadband network. In total, thirteen community groups from Culcheth (Cheshire), Irlam (Salford), Weaverham (Cheshire) and Whitchurch (Shropshire) received £250 each from the company’s Freedom Fund to help deliver environmental projects. They are: Croft Village Memorial Hall, Culcheth received £250 towards environmental projects in their g

This week (31/10/22), Freedom Fibre is launching The Freedom Fund, a community fund which will invest thousands of pounds in environmental projects in areas where it is rolling out its lightning-fast, full-fibre network. The Freedom Fund – which opens to non-profit groups in and around Weaverham (Cheshire), Whitchurch (Shropshire), Irlam (Greater Manchester), and Culcheth (Cheshire) on Monday 31 October 2022 - welcomes applications for up to £250 per community project. It is

As one of the North West’s fastest growing full-fibre network providers, Freedom Fibre believes that everyone should have access to lightning-fast full-fibre broadband, and we think it should be simple to make the switch. But once the Freedom Fibre network has been built in your area, how do we go about getting your household connected and experiencing lightning-fast broadband speeds? To bolster an understanding of what the process involves, members of the Freedom Fibre team

Irlam-based ‘alt-net’ Freedom Fibre has announced the appointment of Lee Sutch to head up the business channel as work starts to onboard the first business customers to benefit from a B2B-enabled FTTP network. With extensive experience in telecoms, including previous roles at Verastar and TalkTalk Business, Lee Sutch will lead the B2B strategy for sales, partners, and the onboarding of business customers - an important and integral part of the Freedom Fibre long-term business

Freedom Fibre has welcomed its first apprentice to the team this week. Mia Foxcroft has joined us for a 12-month apprenticeship in the Enterprise IT team as a Support Technician. This role will see Mia actively monitor and progress all service desk tickets raised via our internal Support Desk system. The apprenticeship involves on-the-job learning as well as off-the-job training through virtual sessions every six weeks and the programme is made up of four modules. Mia will a

Last week, Freedom Fibre CEO, Neil McArthur, wrote a special Guest Editorial for ISPreview.co.uk discussing the benefits of full fibre coverage across the UK, the challenges that come with delivering the Government’s gigabit-broadband targets, and the future of the Altnet community as a whole. With over 24 years’ experience in the telecom sector, Neil has always been passionate about the technology, the future of the industry, and delivering reliable connectivity to everyone

This week, Freedom Fibre has extended into a new wing within our main office in Irlam, Manchester. The expansion means that Freedom Fibre is committed to its value of ‘Create a Legacy’ and Darren Woods, Chief Finance Officer, summed this up: “Since starting Freedom Fibre we have been working towards securing its long term future. With Equitix secured in May as our investment partner our focus is now on scaling at pace towards our target of providing fibre to over 2 million pr