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Lightning Fibre customer - Radio DGH
Lightning Fibre customer - Hydro Hotel
Rob Reaks, CCO, and Ammar Jawaid, COO (centre) at the 2025 UK Fibre Awards.
Houses of Parliament, with the MP for Eastbourne and President of the Liberal Democrats
great trust-signal for consumers, and
important recognition for hard working
employees; we really do feel a collective sense of purpose and achievement. So, the Internet Service Providers’
Association award wins in 2023 and 2024 for ‘Best consumer ISP’ stand
out. And we’re finalists for that award in 2025. I was also invited to Number 10 Downing Street by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer in 2023 to represent
Local Business Champions, which was a proud, personal ‘pinch me’ moment. What type of clients do you
currently work with and who are you looking to meet?
Lightning Fibre has two commercial
elements to it. We are a regional
residential and business full fibre
network operator and internet service
provider (ISP); and, through City Fibre and Netomnia, a national business
maintain them. So, I bought them in 2022 and fully restored them (and remove tags, stickers and graffiti
almost daily). Tourists LOVE them.
broadband ISP. So, we’re very much
How do you define Success?
customers and Managed IT Service
I once equated success with relentless
focussed on attracting new business Partners who wish to act as trusted resellers for our services.
Tell us a story/fact about yourself that people might not know?
I am lucky enough to live in central
hard work, but experience taught me that true success lies in balance. It’s
about surrounding yourself with a great team, building meaningful professional
relationships, and feeling fulfilled rather than exhausted.
Brighton where we have two lovely
K6 phone boxes. They were bought
from BT when they sold off redundant kiosks, but the owners did not
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