01 March 2024

Funding application in final stages

We’re planning a micro-build in the Invermay area, we’re hoping to receive permission to crack on with home surveys very shortly – we’ll be in touch with residents as soon as we can to get the ball rolling.

01 January 2024

First Properties Live

And we’re live! Our first properties have gone live!
We’ll be connecting properties in and around Clathy over the next week or so, before shifting focus to connect Abercairny Estates – exciting times!

01 November 2023

Door to Door Visits continue.

Keep an eye out for Pete, Jamie and Harry as they visit voucher eligible properties in the area. Remember, your connection is free, as if the first year of service.

01 September 2023

Spine Work Ongoing

Our construction teams have been working hard, burying the duct in verges and the edge of fields. On a good day we can get more than 800 metres of spine laid. We’ve also conducted our first home surveys in Clathy and the surrounding area.

For the next few months we will focus on maximising take up, conducting home surveys and of course, laying more spine. All being well, we hope to have homes going live, early in the new year.

01 August 2023

Funding Project Finalised – Home Surveys to begin

It’s official! Our project has been approved and we can really set the wheels in motion.

Look out for our teams working in the fields, spreading the word to door-to-door and surveying customer’s properties.

01 June 2023

Final Route Agreed

A huge thank you to local landowners in the area – we now have a finalised route across the area. As well as bringing hyperfast broadband to local residents, the route will help to strengthen our network – providing a direct link between our Dupplin, Strathallan, Methven & Muthill networks.

26th April 2023

Spreading the word in Methven

With the technicians working in the nearby fields, it’s time for the team to hit the streets and spread the word about the many benefits of hyperfast broadband. Keep an eye out for Grant, Chelsey, Harry and James as they outline our plans to residents and register interested households. Remember installation is free and there’s nothing to pay for the first year!

20th April 2023

Working the fields

Residents of Methven may well have noticed the Gigatruck and the mole-plough in the fields to the south of the village – Our “spine”, the larger fibre cable that forms the backbone of our network, is now being buried along the perimeter of these fields. In the coming weeks we’re aiming to lay approximately 13.5km of “spine” around the perimeter of the village.

20th March 2023

A clear route to Methven

A huge thanks to all the landowners who have now granted us permission to lay our spine from our existing network in the Dupplin Estate towards Methven – an important milestone in our mission to bring hyperfast broadband to Methven.

01 February 2023

Mapping Abercairny

The area between Methven to the north-east, Strathallan to the south and Muthill to the west is of huge importance to Gigaloch as we seek to strengthen and consolidate our network.

Over the past weeks and months our Estates and Design teams have been working with local landowners to plot a route across the area.

10th January 2023

Homes begin to Go Live

We’re now live in the Dupplin Estate! Customers in Aberdalgie, Tibbermore and elsewhere are now beginning to receive their initial free first year of hyperfast Gigaloch broadband. Although many households are now enjoying the many benefits this brings, there are still some we need to connect. We design our network as efficiently as possible to minimise the number of roads we have to lay our fibre underneath as no-one likes roadworks! We’re currently awaiting permission to “cross” several roads which will allow us to bring these properties online.

5th December 2022

Mapping Methven

While we continue apace with our work in the Dupplin Estate to bring the remaining properties online, our Planning & Estates teams have been working with landowners in and around Methven to plot a course for our network, initially around the outskirts of the village. We’re delighted to be expanding to Methven in 2023!

13th July 2022

Home Installations begin in the Dupplin Estate

It’s time for the remote controlled mini-moleplough to lay ducting. Our surveyors have created bespoke designs for each household to minimise the impact upon our customers’ gardens. Once the ducting has been laid, the team will quite literally “blow” the fibre-optic cable through the duct and into the property using compressed air and then connect to our Zyxel router.

2nd June 2022

Breaking Ground, sign-ups and home surveys

It’s moleplough time! With initial planning complete, our engineers have started to lay our “spine” – the larger fibre cables that form the backbone of our network- throughout the Dupplin Estate running all the way back to our backhaul and cabinet at Strathallan Castle. Although we always track the perimeter of fields, our moleplough will typically bury the cable at least 900mm deep to minimise the risk of damage to the network. On a good day, our team can lay over a kilometre of “spine”!

With work now well underway, we’re now generating customer sign-ups and arranging for detailed surveys of customer’s homes to determine the optimum route to connect our fibre directly into their property.

9th March 2022

Partnering with Landowners in the Dupplin Estate

Morag, Jamie & Ross have had a fantastic response from local landowners who have provided permission to run our cabling ducts through their land. This means our designers and surveyors can now liaise with the landowners to finalise our network design.

10th January 2022

Designs begins for the Dupplin Estate

Our design team have begun designing our network in conjunction with landowners in and around the Dupplin Estate, south-west of Perth. Communities including Aberdalgie, Forteviot & Tibbermore can begin to look forward to Hyperfast Gigaloch broadband in the near future…

17 May 2021

Gigaloch heads to Perth

We’re working on an exciting and innovative plan to expand the network over to Perth taking Gigaloch out of the countryside for the first time.

05 April 2021

Surveys begin

Surveys, surveys, surveys! Our surveyors have got a lot of land to cover to make their detailed plans for the network build.

19 January 2021

New project lead

Gigaloch’s head of planning, Ross, makes the move to Perthshire to lead the Strathearn project

04 December 2020

Enter the Gigacastle

We’re excited to be working with the team at Strathallan Castle who have agreed to host our backhaul and cabinet.

02 October 2020

Landowner progress

Great progress is being made mapping out our network! We’ve teamed up with amazingly supportive landowners and have a clear route from Auchterarder to Perth.

12 August 2020

New build area announced 🥳

As the demand for gigabit broadband in Perthshire is so great, we’re making a plan for another build from Strathallan to Auchterarder.