Go Internet has lit its own full fibre in an Isle of Wight village
Go Internet, the Ryde based provider on the Isle of Wight, says it has switched on its own full fibre network in Chale, a village on the island’s south west coast. As reported by ISPreview, the operator’s managing director Trevor Cook said the company had “officially lit our Full Fibre network in Chale”, and described it as a village left behind on connectivity, where some homes and businesses are still on ADSL and others have made do with patchy 4G.
Go Internet has run a fixed wireless network on part of the island for years, and it sells packages over other operators’ fibre elsewhere. This is its own fibre, in the ground, in a village small enough that the bigger builders usually get to it last. Cook says the deployment is “only the beginning” and that more rural communities are planned. No villages were named, and no dates.
What the announcement itself confirms is a single connection: The Hub, a community building in the village that had been getting by on a mobile dongle. One building is not a village. ISPreview says it checked other postcodes in Chale and found the network already available to nearby homes, which is better evidence than an announcement on its own, though still not an answer for one address. That is settled line by line, so the availability checker is the only honest place to look.
On price, ISPreview reports packages starting at £25 a month for a symmetric 100Mbps connection, with a Wi-Fi 6 router and free installation on a 24 month term, rising to around £40 for the top 900Mbps tier. Symmetric is worth more than it sounds, because the upload matches the download, which is often the difference between a video call that holds and one that breaks up. The trade is the term. The announcement said nothing about whether those prices are held for all 24 months, which is the question to ask before signing anything, because plenty of contracts go up every spring instead.
Chale is not starting from nothing either. ISPreview notes that Openreach and WightFibre run the dominant full fibre networks on the island, and that WightFibre has already built to at least part of the village. So for some homes there this is a second or third option rather than a first, and more than one network on a street is usually where the better offers appear.
Two things this does not settle. It is one outlet’s report of a small operator’s own announcement, so there is little detail beyond that one community building. And a plan to reach “many more rural communities” is not a build schedule, which is worth remembering anywhere still waiting for fibre to arrive on the street. If a new network does turn up locally, compare it against whatever is already available at the postcode rather than deciding on the doorstep.