Expansion strengthens access to purpose-built business connectivity across England, Scotland and Wales
ITS has announced it is extending its full fibre network into 13 additional towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales.
The expansion marks the next phase of ITS’s investment in its national network built specifically for business use. It will bring more organisations within reach of high-capacity connectivity, giving businesses greater choice and creating more opportunity for ITS partners to serve customers that need resilient, scalable services to support cloud, AI and other data-intensive applications.
Coventry, Huddersfield and Loughborough will be the first locations to be Ready for Service (RFS) later this month. Aberdeen, Bath, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Chester, Edinburgh, Exeter, Plymouth, Southampton and Swansea will go live in phases between July and October.
The rollout is supported by wider investment across ITS’s wholesale platform, partner experience and product portfolio. As part of this, ITS is continuing to develop its self-service Portal to give partners greater control and visibility, from order and delivery through to in-life service management.
The increased footprint gives partners more opportunities to take the ITS portfolio to market, supporting customers with services ranging from full fibre business broadband to dedicated Ethernet. This includes FibreLight Plus, ITS’s Ethernet-over-FTTP bundled solution launched earlier this year, which combines symmetrical speeds, burstable bandwidth, enhanced support and security at the network edge.
Daren Baythorpe, CEO at ITS, said:
“Organisations across the UK need connectivity that is built around how they operate, not a residential model adapted for business use. That is why we are continuing to invest where the demand is clear and where our digital infrastructure can create long-term value.
“This expansion takes us into even more towns and cities across England, Scotland and Wales, supporting the places that power local and regional economies, while giving businesses greater choice in areas where high-capacity connectivity is becoming increasingly important.
“It is also about the way the market is served. Partners need more than access to a circuit. They need a wholesale platform, a strong product portfolio and the service experience to support customers with confidence, including larger, multi-site organisations that need consistent connectivity across different locations.”
