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Alternative broadband operator and UK ISP RunFibre, which originally built a small full fibre (FTTP) broadband network across rural parts of South Gloucestershire (England) and was in June 2025 acquired from the Fibreray Group by Fibre Nova (here), has quietly changed hands again and been acquired by the new Bentry Infrastructure Group.
RunFibre is a relatively tiny altnet that originally started life in 2020/21 by deploying their full fibre lines into Hawkesbury Upton, Inglestone Common and surrounding areas – often with support from the government’s Gigabit Broadband Voucher Scheme (GBVS). Some of their other locations included Falfield, Iron Acton, Sopworth and Little Badminton, Charfied West, Easter Compton and Over Lane.
However, the provider appeared to be suffering from some challenges toward the end of 2023 and ended up being acquired by the Fibreray Group for an undisclosed sum during August 2024 (here), which at the time indicated that the operator would continue to focus its future deployments on “smaller communities”.