Broadband provider LightSpeed has partnered with Neos Networks to expand its fibre-to-the-premises and wholesale services.
LightSpeed provides 10Gbps XGS-PON technology, ensuring high bandwidth and capacity services are available across its network. Greater availability of these services is being developed using Neos Networks’ extensive UK-wide network, providing its wholesale customers greater access and choice.
The LightSpeed Group operates through two entities: LightSpeed Networks, which builds and manages the infrastructure for its retail and growing wholesale services, and LightSpeed Broadband, which provides gigabit-speed connectivity directly to homes and businesses across the Midlands and East of England.
Neos Networks is providing LightSpeed with connectivity solutions, including dark fibre, 100Gbps and 10Gbps optical links, and backhaul services. This partnership enables LightSpeed Networks to expand into new regions such as North Staffordshire and connect to critical data centres in London, Manchester and Birmingham. As a result, LightSpeed can offer bespoke wholesale services and managed solutions to other service providers, delivering alternatives to incumbent providers.
Additionally, Neos Networks supports LightSpeed Broadband’s ability to deliver fibre to the home services to a broader customer base. By quickly and efficiently extending connectivity into new areas, LightSpeed Broadband can help improve pre-sales, street cabinet deployments and customer sign-ups, speeding up its high-speed broadband rollout.
This partnership represents an important step in both companies’ missions to bridge the digital divide, offering gigabit broadband to communities in need and cementing their positions as key players in the UK’s connectivity markets.
“Partnering with Neos Networks allows us to bring faster, more reliable connectivity to homes and businesses in the East Midlands and beyond,” said Chris Tagg, chief technology and information officer at The LightSpeed Group. “This collaboration equips us with the flexibility and scalability to expand rapidly into new markets while staying true to our commitment to exceptional service delivery - especially in areas where traditional options like Openreach are unavailable.”
Lee Myall, CEO at Neos Networks, said, “Our collaboration with LightSpeed is a prime example of how advanced network infrastructure can support providers in reaching underserved areas. By delivering tailored connectivity solutions, we’re enabling LightSpeed to expand their footprint and bring high-quality broadband to more communities and businesses.”