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Energy Supplier First Utility to Launch UK Home Broadband Service

Independent energy supplier First Utility has quietly revealed that they plan to mirror rival SSE by launching their own fixed line home broadband and phone service this month, which should help to boost customer retention.

First Utility is a fairly young energy supplier, albeit one that has grown rapidly from 250,000 UK households in 2013 to nearly 1 million today. Most recently the operator has also expanded into Germany and they were even considering an Initial Public Offering (float on the stock market), but this idea has now been shelved due to the uncertainty around Brexit.

Never the less it appears as if the operator now plans to join the already crowded market for consumer broadband services. The new products will be built around a wholesale agreement with TalkTalk, which means that we can probably expect the usual mix of unlimited ‘up to’ 17Mbps (ADSL2+) and ‘up to’ 38-76Mbps (Fibre / FTTC) based broadband bundles.