Members

West Sussex councils have an exciting ambition to put the county on the map as a key location for digital investment, innovation and expansion.  West Sussex County Council, working with its tier 2 councils - Adur and Worthing Councils, Mid Sussex District Council,  Horsham District Council, Crawley Borough Council, Chichester District Council, and Arun District Council – are committed to working creatively with telecommunications stakeholders to get the best digital connectivity for the county.

County-wide, affordable, gigabit-capable connectivity is pivotal to the councils’ shared ambition to provide residents, businesses and visitors with a smart digital environment and access to efficient, cost effective digital services.

Our ambition underpins the county’s Economic Growth Plan to attract, retain and support growth through access to high quality connectivity that will open up new markets and fuel innovative, creative applications of emerging technologies.  

Our ambition is big and so is our vision.

Contact 

Sarah Bazen – Digital Infrastructure Programme Manager
0330 2222374
sarah.bazen@westsussex.gov.uk
https://www.westsussex.gov.uk/

We're committed to making Blackpool better for everyone who lives here. There will be some exciting changes, including new places to shop and eat, new housing, better public transport and more modern, greener streets.

We want to create a more attractive place to live, with a thriving economy, leading to more jobs for local people.

Founded in 1998 by Chairman Professor Adam Beaumont, aql is a trusted communications provider specialising in secure and reliable wholesale access to fixed and mobile networks for government, enterprise, and innovators. The company is responsible for over 100 million telephone numbers for UK ISPs and operators. aql routes millions of SMS text messages per day and operates a wide-reaching connected national network. aql also owns and operates four highly secure carrier neutral datacentre sites within the UK, including housing the main out-of-London independent internet-exchange.  aql has been providing global mobile connectivity for the Internet of Things arena since 2006, through the evolution of 2G/2.5G/3G/4G and now 5G.
 
aql’s mission is to power a connected society by providing trusted solutions that enable communications between cities, communities, people and businesses. It strives to make communication easy and accessible for all organisations to embrace the challenges a new digital World creates.
 
aql is a global company with offices in the UK and Isle of Man, the Nordics and Baltics and an expanding presence in South Africa.
 
Contact

Website: https://aql.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aqldotcom/ 
Twitter: @aqldotcom
Instagram: aql_dot_com

At MCL we like to get a complete understanding of our customers’ requirements; it is only by knowing precisely what is needed that we can assess what to supply. MCL Telecom will fit and maintain the infrastructure put in to meet the demands of, and future-proof any business.
 
We have a small, but perfectly formed team of experts. Mobile and telephony experts sit within our infrastructure to identify the best solutions for our customers. Installation is performed by in-house experts and maintenance is carried out by the same team. Our Business Support staff are empowered to ensure that each customer receives the best possible service.
 
Contact Details

Frank Egleton
Head of Telecommunications
01444 242200
Frank@mcltelecom.co.uk
mcltelecom.co.uk
 

We're committed to making Wyre a better for everyone who lives and works here.
 
We want to create a more inclusive environment for residents and businesses alike by providing connectivity fit for the future, developing skills for residents and supporting businesses.

Contact

Steve Simpson, Head of IT & Digital
07768 670 679
steve.simpson@wyre.gov.uk
https://www.wyre.gov.uk

Since its formation in 2002, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust has grown to become one of the UK’s leading providers of community and mental health services. Our vision is to deliver the best care to patients, people and families in our local communities, by working effectively with partners to help people to live well. We employ 5,500 staff who provide care to 1.3 million people across six boroughs of Greater Manchester:

• Bury, Oldham and Rochdale – community services and mental health for children and adults
• Tameside and Glossop – children’s and adults mental health, health improvement and intermediate care
• Stockport – children’s and adults mental health 
• Trafford – community services and child adolescent mental health services (CAMHS)

Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with mild to moderate conditions such as depression, anxiety or dementia, or more serious mental health illnesses such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder and more.

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/

Jigsaw Group is one of biggest housing associations in Greater Manchester. Founded in 2000, Jigsaw Group is an innovative and ‘can do’ organisation which provides a range of services which go above and beyond our traditional housing management role.

As well as New Charter Homes, the Group includes Gedling Homes in Nottingham, Aksa Hones in Oldham, New Charter Building Company and Threshold, a specialist support provider.  Together, our mission is to provide GREAT Homes, GREAT Neighbourhoods and GREAT People.

http://www.newcharterhomes.co.uk/

Telcom offers high-speed business broadband via fibre and dedicated building-to-building wireless connection. Affordable ultrafast internet and great customer service. Established in 2014.  Telcom was started to change the ISP market, by giving great customer service, a transparent offer, and affordable prices for the latest technology.

Contact

Danny Smith
Danny@telcom.uk
03301222970
telcom.uk

ITS designs, builds and operates full fibre and hybrid wireless networks where they are needed most so that business and residential communities can access gigabit capable connectivity services through our trusted partner network. Having pioneered a ‘dig once’ model that reuses existing infrastructure where we can, our connections are:

• Fast to install
• Gigabit capable, offering the flexibility to scale to fulfil connectivity requirements and demand
• Kinder to the environment as we don't need to dig up the roads if we can use existing ducts and other infrastructure.

Contact

Kevin McNulty
kevin.mcnulty@itstechnologygroup.com
0333 996 2100​​​​​​​
itstechnologygroup.com

Zayo provides mission-critical fiber bandwidth to the world’s most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society.

From companies that are advancing communications, entertainment, healthcare and biotech, financial services, education, computing, transportation and more, these innovators are disrupting the way we live and work.

And while they’re shaking up the status quo, they have something else in common: they rely on high-performance fiber networks and infrastructure to move, process and store enormous volumes of data. With more devices and sensors generating data every day, fiber is the foundation to make it happen. With fiber, these forward-thinkers will make innovations like drone delivery, connected cars, smart factories and quantum computing a reality.

Zayo is the leading provider of infrastructure, with dense, high-quality networks in every major market in North America and many in Western Europe. Through partnerships with leading network providers, we provide our customers with global reach that takes them nearly anywhere they need to be. Our diverse lit and dark fiber networks provide critical connections to thousands of data centers, cloud providers, commercial and entertainment centers in more than 400 markets. And we’re expanding all the time– providing mission-critical routes for customers, more density, diversity, latency and turnkey mobile infrastructure, laying the foundation for our 5G future.

Contact

Andrew Tipping
andrew.tipping@zayo.com
https://zayo.com

Manchester City Council is overseeing – with our residents, in partnership with businesses and others – a modern industrial revolution.

We’re embracing innovation – public and private sectors hand-in-hand – making change happen. 

Our local economy continues to grow faster than the UK’s, with rising employment in the professions and sciences, as we diversify towards knowledge-intensive sectors.

We’re harnessing and exploring the transformative potential of the digital and technology sector, attracting established firms and entrepreneurs to our supportive environment. Enhancing digital infrastructure for high connectivity is critical to our world-leading ambitions.

We’re a work in progress, making progress every day.

Contact

Angela Harrington, Head of Work & Skills
0161 234 3171
a.harrington@manchester.gov.uk  
https://www.manchester.gov.uk/

The Brighton Digital Exchange (BDX) is the carrier-neutral Internet hub for Brighton and Sussex.

It's run by a group of digital businesses working together in innovative ways to improve the digital infrastructure available to the Brighton business community and throughout the region. At the heart of BDX is a cooperatively-owned and run data centre, where member businesses can peer and colocate equipment; and from which they can provide services to Brighton businesses and the world.

Digital and service provider businesses are invited to join the cooperative that owns and manages the exchange. Member businesses can buy wholesale access to exchange facilities including rack space, peering LAN and fibre access to business units in New England House.

Contact

info@bdx.coop
01273 448 448
https://bdx.coop

Welcome to Co-operative Midcounties. We’re the UK’s largest independent Co-operative and we’re proud to do things differently.

With over 700,000 members, people are at the centre of everything we do. Our success is all about building great connections – with our customers, member owners and communities. These relationships are at the heart of our business.

We’re market leaders, and we’re proud of our wide range of services. We’re also proud of our great heritage. Our 150-year history makes us who we are today.

As demand for ethical shopping grows, there’s never been a better time to join us. We’re a progressive and socially conscious business, and we’re committed to paying it back. We’ll help you to make a positive impact with every pound you spend. Together we can really make a difference.

Using an innovative approach, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council is working with partner organisations to build a new, advanced digital infrastructure to serve public sector, businesses and citizens. Cooperative Network Infrastructure is the result of that innovation.

Contact

Tim Rainey
tim@cni.coop
www.tameside.gov.uk

TNP provides high capacity internet connectivity, wide area networks, point to point circuits, and consultancy services through the innovative use of fibre, copper and wireless technologies. The unique vendor and technology agnostic approach allows large organisations to design, build and operate their own networks independently of the established telecoms companies. TNP’s focus is on offering its services to high capacity internet users and networking clients in the public sector.

Contact
Chris Wade
Info@tnp.net.uk
08456 800659
www.tnp.net.uk

B4RN "Broadband for the Rural North Ltd" are an Internet Service Provider (ISP) based in Northern Lancashire, UK. Operating as a Community Benefit Society, B4RN prioritises social impact over financial gain. Any operational surplus made must be reinvested into their core activity or the communities they serve to ensure that all their communities’ benefit. B4RN was founded in 2011 to demonstrate that a community-based approach can deliver high-quality broadband services at affordable prices to everyone in rural areas.

B4RN provide residential gigabit broadband, digital telephony and support to rural homes and businesses throughout Lancashire, Cumbria, North Yorkshire, Northumberland, Norfolk and parts of Cheshire. B4RN also has a robust B2B portfolio offering wavelength products, network circuit design, professional services and tailored support packages.

They have successfully provided a lifeline for communities longing for digital inclusion and forged solid local relationships along the way. With the support of local volunteers, B4RN have created a long-lasting web of connectivity across the rural countryside.

We are an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and Network Operator providing high speed, low latency, internet connectivity to residential and business customers. We work with property developers and landlords providing internet and cloud services to multi-tenanted commercial and residential properties across the UK.
 
Contact Details
 
Name: Mark O’Connell
Email: mark@linkipnetworks.co.uk
Tel: 0161 813 1870
Web: www.linkipnetworks.co.uk

We’re committed to delivering a green, healthy, inclusive and prosperous ‘smart district’ for the future, and making the connections that will enable us to achieve these aims for the benefit of all the district’s residents and businesses.

We believe that this approach will require strong foundations of digital infrastructure, collaboration and the adoption of digital technology and practice.

Our Digital Strategy sets out our plans to support the council’s priorities across a number of different dimensions, including:

• Connectivity – providing first-class infrastructure such as Full Fibre and 5G to support a growing tech sector, promoting high value, green employment opportunities
• Collaboration – enabling stakeholders to come together in partnership to deliver enhancements in health, innovation, nature and knowledge and address issues of social exclusion
• Change – adopting digital methodologies across neighbourhood services, to enable better access to services and continue improving the council’s efficiency and agility in responding to the Climate Emergency and focusing on communities

This is a bold vision capable of making significant changes to the council, the district and to the wellbeing of all our citizens.
 
Contact
 
Steve Simpson, Head of IT & Digital
01524 958 424
sjsimpson@lancaster.gov.uk
https://www.lancaster.gov.uk/digital
 

We are a specialist independent consultancy that delivers project and programme management of fibre networks across the UK.

We have developed our expertise by designing and managing some of the largest fibre networks for Local Authorities, Combined Authorities and DCMS.

Our expert advisors work closely with CNI members to ensure we realise their benefits and create better connectivity for customers.

Contact

Chris Founds, Infrastructure Director
07931 651662
chris.founds@cjfoundsassociates.co.uk

The Chichester College Group is the largest provider of further education in Sussex. Through our five Colleges we educate and provide high quality learning opportunities for over 25,000 full and part time students every year.

Our mission is changing lives through learning and is achieved by placing the student experience at the heart of everything we do. Our priority is to significantly improve the learning opportunities, experience and environment for students across the region – combining inclusion and excellence to meet local, community and employer needs.

We are an OFSTED Outstanding College Group, rated as outstanding in all areas inspected and acknowledged by OFSTED as having an ‘outstanding culture of inclusivity and respect’ and that our ‘courses meet fully the demands of their local and regional communities’.

Contact:
Jon Dunster
Group IT Director
01243 786321
Jon.Dunster@chichester.ac.uk

https://chigroup.ac.uk/

Here at Lancashire County Council, we are helping you to make Lancashire the best place to live, work, visit and prosper.

We want Lancashire to be the county people choose to create a home, raise their children, develop a career and grow old. We are committed to developing and celebrating our diverse communities, heritage and landscape to create a strong sense of place we can all be proud of.

This vision for Lancashire forms part of the county council's planning and performance framework. It sets out our priorities in an open and transparent way. It will be subject to regular monitoring in terms of how we are progressing against our objectives, and it will be kept under review to make sure it is kept up to date in a fast-changing world.

At the heart of our strategy for delivery are our four priorities: delivering better services, protecting our environment, supporting economic growth, and caring for the vulnerable

Contact
Brett Dixon
ictsuppliermanagement@lancashire.go.uk
0300 123 6701
https://lancashire.gov.uk/

IX Wireless Limited is a telecommunications infrastructure provider. Formed in late 2017, IXW secured code operator status in early 2018 to drive the rapid expansion of its innovative ultra speed network in the North of England and beyond.

Contact:
https://www.ixwireless.co.uk/contact
01772921921
https://www.ixwireless.co.uk

Global Reach is a provider of wholesale connectivity and network planning. We are an Openreach partner who utilise dark fibre and PIA to connect your sites. We also provide global telecoms connectivity via our partner carriers across the globe. We have a 22 year trading history and a wealth of experience in end to end service delivery.

• Dark Fibre connectivity
• Wholesale ethernet/FTTx connectivity
• Network Planning and delivery
• BT Exchange Presence
• Asset management and mapping

Contact

Leo Brown
leo.brown@globalreach.co
0330 800 1000
globalreach.co

Lightning Fibre is a broadband operator and ISP covering East and West Sussex and Kent. With a community-focus, the company supports a range of charities, events and groups, and was awarded the Best Consumer ISP award at the 2023 ISPA Awards.

With fair and transparent pricing, and a £15 per month social tariff, Lightning Fibre is working to remove the barriers to digital inclusion. Rated Excellent on Trustpilot.

Our key strategic aim for connectivity is to enable ultrafast speeds (300Mb or more) to all business and residential users in the Greater Brighton City Region1.

Ultrafast will provide game-changing speeds in businesses, homes and mobile, and is critical to enabling the City Region to drive forward with it’s Five Year Strategy, support the Coast to Capital Strategic Economic Plan and play its part in meeting the 4 Grand Challenges of the UK Industrial Strategy: Artificial Intelligence and data,Ageing society, Clean growth, and Future of mobility.

Contact:
Max Woodford
01273 291666
Max.Woodford@brighton-hove.gov.uk
https://www.brighton-hove.gov.uk

Core Integrated Solutions specialise in IP infrastructure solutions for the IT, CCTV, UTC and Transportation sectors.  We provide both cable and wireless transmission installation services and solutions which for the Tameside Co-operative which mainly cover the installation and termination of the fibre optic infrastructure. Core-IS also provide ancillary services such as cable containment.

Part of the Core-IS scope of works is to also provide on-site maintenance and fibre optic infrastructure design.

Contact

James Bailey
jbailey@core-is.co.uk
07779 233147
www.core-is.co.uk

Ashton Sixth Form College is a leading provider of post-16 education in the Tameside borough. With years of experience, dedicated teaching, high expectations for learners and a diverse study programme, learners achieve and exceed.

https://www.asfc.ac.uk/

AssetHUB is a secure, centralised marketplace for the buying and selling of telecommunications assets, connectivity and services in the UK.

Drawing on a decade of operation and development in Sweden – one of the most fibre-connected countries in the world – AssetHUB can be used for free by CNI members.

AssetHUB allows the UK telecoms industry to leverage existing infrastructure to speed up network deployments, reduce overbuild, obtain resilient connections and ensure compliance to key national regulations. The platform manages the full, end-to-end business workflow for buying and selling assets instantly via API, or manually through a secure web-portal, with all contract communications  stored in a single place.

Assets includes duct, dark fibre, wavelengths, ethernet, street furniture, masts, towers, poles, buildings, cabinets, colocation space and land. Asset visibility is only shared with trusted and approved organisations. 

Contact

Rob Leenderts
CEO, The AssetHUB
rob@asset-hub.co.uk
https://www.asset-hub.co.uk/

Based in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, Tameside College is a further education college that offers a wide range of courses including Full-Time, Part-Time, Apprenticeships and University Level. We aim to give all our students an exceptional experience.

www.tameside.ac.uk

Greater Manchester is one of the country's most successful city-regions. Home to more than 2.8 million people and with an economy bigger than that of Wales or Northern Ireland. Our vision is to make Greater Manchester one of the best places in the world to grow up, get on and grow old. We're getting there through a combination of economic growth, and the reform of public services.

The Greater Manchester Combined Authority(GMCA) is made up of the ten Greater Manchester councils and Mayor, who work with other local services, businesses, communities and other partners to improve the city-region..

The ten councils (Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan) have worked together voluntarily for many years on issues that affect everyone in the region, like transport, regeneration, and attracting investment..

Contact

Phil Swan, Director for Digital
Phil.Swan@greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk
https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/

Our vision is to enable a better way of living. We are providing the latest full fibre technology and innovation to mid-sized towns and rural areas in the UK. But most importantly, we ensure that our core values of Innovation, Passion, Reliability and Trust are foremost, as we make our goals a reality for the communities we work within.
 
Contact Details

Website: https://fwnetworks.co.uk/
 

Digital infrastructure is a powerful tool for transformation. For local economies, for public services, for opportunity. CBN has a unique approach to the development and promotion of transformational digital infrastructure, with innovations such as the Thin Layer Model, Digital Exchanges, Dig Once Trusts and Imagine IBZL.

CBN works with local authorities, businesses and NGOs, both in the UK and internationally. Our members and associates include some of the UK’s top experts in telecommunications strategy, business development, technical implementation and mutual structures.

Contact

Shaun Fensom
s.fensom@broadband.coop
0161 283 2675
broadband.coop

euNetworks is a European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services. We focus on delivering scalable, fibre based products and solutions to a customer base that is at the centre of technology transformation. Our customers require fibre based data centre to data centre connectivity, both within the key cities in Europe and between these cities, supporting both their bandwidth growth and the performance requirements that their applications demand. Our customers' needs shape how we develop our network further.

Contact

Ashley Griffiths
ashley.griffiths@eunetworks.com
https://eunetworks.com

Network Connect is a specialist provider of Voice and Data solutions to business of all sizes, all over the UK. Proud to be a founding member of CNI, Network Connect can deliver high speed, robust internet connections at excellent prices.

Established for over 25 years, Network Connect strives to provide excellent service in all it does. 

Other services available from Network Connect include: 

• Business phone systems and Unified Communications Platforms, both in the Cloud and On Site
• Network Security including advanced threat protection, and bespoke cyber security reporting.
• High speed, resilient wired and Wireless data network solutions.

For more information contact us on 0161 2142010 or sales@networkconnect.co.uk 

You can also visit us at www.networkconnect.co.uk

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside and Glossop. As a busy Foundation Trust Hospital we provide a range of high quality elective, emergency and specialist services for adults and children. Our mission is to work with colleagues, patients, carers and the wider public to ensure that at our Hospital

https://www.tamesidehospital.nhs.uk/

CityFibre is the UK’s third national digital infrastructure platform. With existing networks in more than 60 towns and cities, CityFibre provides wholesale connectivity to multiple business and consumer service providers, local authorities and mobile operators. 

CityFibre has network rollouts underway with plans to pass up to 8 million homes and businesses with open-access Full Fibre infrastructure. A growing number of Gigabit City projects have been announced for full-city rollouts and CityFibre continues to prime its existing network assets for expansion.

CityFibre is based in London and is jointly controlled by Antin Infrastructure Partners and West Street Infrastructure Partners.

Contact

Martin Kemp
martin.kemp@cityfibre.com
https://www.cityfibre.com/