About Altnets

Altnets was built around a promise: to do things differently. Having worked in telecoms infrastructure for years, our founders Paul Britnell and Sam Bangle were fed up with the industry’s status quo. They knew what customers needed: products that actually worked – delivered on time, every time, by cheerful, knowledgeable staff that could become an extension of their own teams. Sam and Paul joined forces when the world was feeling its way through a global pandemic. Amidst the widespread disruption, Paul noticed a massive boom in a singular product set in Europe, and discovered that the FTTP market was about to take off in the UK. He decided to get in touch with Sam, who had recently left behind a job in the city. The stars were aligning, and the opportunity that lay before them was crystal clear.

When the world opened back up a few months later, the founders began working together at Paul’s kitchen table. The first order placed with Altnets was an 80 kg drum of fibre cable. Sam and Paul hired a van, collected the cable from their most trusted manufacturer’s warehouse, and drove it all the way from Southampton to central London. Together they unloaded it all the way to the door of their customer’s storage facility, ahead of schedule. Their personal service earned them their first regular customer.

Our founders were determined to build the best team in the industry, so they headhunted Altnets’ first ten employees. Having worked with them personally for years, they were able to select their people not just for their talent and work ethic, but for their personalities.

The Altnets team quickly outgrew our first shared workspace. In 2023, we opened our own office, overlooking the beautiful Brighton Marina. By the end of 2024, we’d grown from two visionary founders to a team of 20 with a shared ambition to change the way this sector works for good.

We’re living through volatile times, but our team knows that there’s not a problem we can’t solve with a bit of creativity. Every challenge we’re faced with is a new opportunity to go above and beyond for our customers. Remaining independently owned means we can be present and agile to all of our customers’ needs – for as long as they need us.