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Voneus sponsors Round House’s first canine calendar
6th December 2024
The Round House Café launches its 2025 dog calendar, featuring 300+ dogs, with Voneus sponsoring prints. Proceeds support Round House funds!
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Excellent Broadband on Walney Island
Looking for broadband on Walney Island? Check Voneus Broadband availability and discover how Voneus supports local organisations across the island.
Broadband on Walney Island
The Voneus story on Walney began around North Scale, before the network extended across more of the island. Since then, Walney has become much more than a network location to Voneus. It’s somewhere our customers live, work and bring up their families, and it’s home to the community centres, cafés, sports clubs and local events that make the island feel like home.
Availability can still vary from one property to another. Enter your postcode and select your full address to see the current options available to you.
We now have our first customers connected
One of the first to enjoy our game-changing broadband was Walney resident Colin Grosvenor, an IT engineer for the NHS.
Colin said: “It’s important to me to have good broadband speeds in order to make sure I can do my work for the NHS from home. The speeds I was getting with my previous supplier were terribly slow, but with Voneus they are incredible.”
Check out the video to find out more from Colin and how we’re bringing ultrafast broadband to Walney Island.
Excellent broadband for Walney homes and businesses
Your broadband may start the day with a work call and finish it with the whole household online. It can help with streaming, gaming, schoolwork, video calls and all the everyday jobs that now happen online.
For local businesses, staying connected can be just as important, helping with customer enquiries, bookings, suppliers and day-to-day administration.
Where is Voneus Broadband available on Walney Island?
Broadband in North Scale
North Scale was the starting point for the Voneus network rollout on Walney Island. It is also home to North Scale Community Centre, which offers a free Voneus connection to support a shared space used by the local community.
Broadband around Vickerstown
Voneus is strengthening its local connection around Vickerstown by sponsoring Vickerstown Cricket Club next year, supporting a club that brings players, families, and supporters together.
Broadband across the island
For other Walney addresses, the postcode checker gives you the clearest answer. Select your full property to see the current broadband options available where you live.
Why choose Voneus Broadband?
Excellent Trustpilot rating
Voneus Broadband has an excellent Trustpilot rating, helping you choose with confidence.
Excellent broadband for rural communities
Voneus specialises in connecting communities outside the UK’s biggest towns and cities, helping homes and businesses stay connected for work, entertainment and everyday life online.
Local knowledge
From free community connections to local sponsorships and events, Voneus is building relationships with organisations people already know across Walney Island.
Supporting the Walney community
The Roundhouse
The Roundhouse has a free Voneus Broadband connection, helping keep this much-loved community space online.
Voneus is also sponsoring the Roundhouse Dog Calendar again next year, with all the money raised going directly back to the Roundhouse. We’re supporting its Santa’s Grotto too, helping bring a little extra Christmas magic to local families.
North Scale Community Centre
North Scale Community Centre also has a free Voneus connection, bringing connectivity into another shared space at the heart of island life.
Vickerstown Cricket Club
Voneus will be sponsoring Vickerstown Cricket Club next year, supporting local sport and another organisation that plays an important role in the Walney community.
Meet your local Voneus team
You might spot us at a village hall, local event, pub quiz, sports club or community fundraiser. Our local team is here to help you understand your broadband options, answer questions and make switching feel straightforward. Because Voneus is regularly out and about across the area, you’ll likely see a familiar Voneus face at a community event near you.
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Declan Lambert
Regional Manager - North
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Julian Oliver
Field Sales Representative
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Thomas Gleeson
Field Sales Representative
Switch to Voneus on Walney Island
Have a look at why switching to Voneus was so easy for retired Walney Island resident Mike Coward.
Mike says: “Broadband speeds that we get now from Voneus are much better than we previously had. In fact, I would say they’re four times better. We use our broadband for just normal things that people do, like watching TV or FaceTime with family. We’re not gamers. We just want a good system that works whenever we want it to work.”
Investing in an even better Walney experience
Walney matters to us, and we’re continuing to invest in making the broadband experience on the island better for the people who rely on it every day.
Work has been underway to improve the network and customer experience on Walney, with scheduled network improvements prioritised before further local activation activity moved ahead.
For you, that means our community support sits alongside continued focus on the broadband experience itself. We want Walney customers to feel the benefit both at home and in the community around them.
What our customers say
Frequently Asked Questions
Gigabit wireless broadband is a state-of-the-art Voneus technology that delivers ultrafast broadband via radio signals. Transmitters on masts and lampposts send the signal to smaller radio receivers on your property.
Full fibre, often referred to as fibre to the premises (FTTP), is broadband delivered directly into your property using underground or in some cases overhead fibre optic cables.
There is no difference in the speeds that can be delivered: Voneus gigabit wireless broadband delivers speeds in parity with full fibre, with symmetrical speeds up to 900Mbps packages available.
Unlike traditional full fibre network builds, gigabit wireless networks eliminate the need to dig up roads as the equipment used to power the broadband is fixed to host sites and existing street fixtures (lampposts).
We’ve worked with the local authority (Westmorland and Furness Council) to utilise the existing street furniture to help host and power the network and our network build is now complete.
Our network is not 5G. There is absolutely no need for concern. None of the equipment or frequencies we use to provide our gigabit wireless broadband are harmful or dangerous.
Our equipment is very low powered and nowhere near the strength of a mobile signal. The radio waves used are just the same as those used to transmit the broadband Wi-Fi around people’s homes via their router, and the same technology that might connect a tablet with a TV (Bluetooth).
UK Government guidance on public health regarding Wi-Fi states that there is no consistent evidence that exposure to radio signals affects the health of the general population:
Wi-fi radio waves and health - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Our broadband does not use the same signal bands as the mobile networks, those bands are licensed with the operators and Ofcom, and we are not allowed and do not use them. They are completely different technologies.
Yes. The network has been specifically designed to counter line of sight issues typically expected from a radio access network (RAN). This is P2P (point to point) that utilises existing street furniture (lampposts) and host sites such as Walney School and the Nautical Club to provide the network across the Island.
No network (including fibre) is ever 100% resilient to external factors such as vandalism to equipment or extreme weather but we do offer 24/7 technical support and engineering teams who are local to the area so we can resolve any issues as quickly as possible.
The radio kit that we use has an uptime of 99.999% and is extremely robust, withstanding the weather conditions that we would expect in the UK.
The best broadband package for you will depend on how you use your internet and how fast you want to go! If there are just one or two of you online browsing, our 250Mbps is probably all you need. If there are more of you at home and you're all online at the same time, you'll probably need our 500Mbps package. We'd recommend our fastest package of 900Mbps if you're gaming regularly, or uploading large files.
If you move home to an area where you can get Voneus, your contract will continue. If you can't get Voneus at your new property, you'll need to cancel your contract by giving us at least 30 days' notice in writing.
No problem. Go ahead and place your order with us and we'll hold your install for up to 11 months.
Voneus has an established network presence on Walney Island. Availability varies by property, so enter your postcode to see the current options for your address.
Yes. Local activity includes free connections at the Roundhouse and North Scale Community Centre, sponsorship of the Roundhouse Dog Calendar and Santa’s Grotto, and sponsorship of Vickerstown Cricket Club next year.