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Carlisle-based alternative broadband ISP Grain has revealed that their 2Gbps speed point-to-point full fibre (FTTP) network has now started to go live in the industrial North Northamptonshire (England) town of Kettering, which is home to a population of between 56,000 (parish) and 63,000 (built up area). But their initial coverage is very limited.
Most of Grain’s local build activity in the town currently seems to be occurring on the streets that surround the semi-central Pleasure Park area, which won’t yet be live and so the announcement of the service having “arrived” in Kettering could perhaps be slightly premature. Nevertheless, they are certainly busy rolling out, so it won’t be long before more homes can connect.
As usual, Grain isn’t the only gigabit-capable broadband network in town, with Virgin Media (inc. nexfibre), CityFibre, Openreach, OFNL (Fibrenest), Glide and Hyperoptic also being present, although the latter three only have very limited coverage. Suffice to say that the town seems to be a bit of a high risk build for Grain, but that’s never stopped them before and they tend to compete strongly on price.