Our 2021 Cuckoo Christmas party in Manchester. We raced go-karts and, funnily enough, it was my first time meeting a lot of them. It made for a pretty great icebreaker before we tucked into a festive meal afterwards! Great fun all round.

Who’s job at Cuckoo would you like to try out for 24 hours? 

Probably Tommy Toner, our Chief Experience Officer. I’d love the opportunity to spend all day thinking about what our customers want and need, and how to turn it into an exciting customer experience. He's also an army reservist – something I’ve always wanted to do. Who wouldn’t love to jump out of planes for free (so long as there’s a parachute)?! 

Any time spent with our Cuckoo creative team. I know I’ll have finished my cup of coffee before we even get to the topic at hand (en route, we’ll discuss everything from cycling gear to moustaches, as well as the best way to boil potatoes). They’re the perfect combination of hilarious and are extremely skilled at what they do. 

There's a chocolate drink powder I used to have a lot when I was younger called Milo. But if you take the powder and add it to plain boiled rice, you have an incredible dessert. Heard it here first. 

I've found myself googling the Philippine Eagle recently (because, you know). They're absolutely huuuuuge, but also very cute. Not sure if I would pet one or just run away. Only one way to find out... 

Anything cool you've done we don't know about? 

I started a vegan food business back when I was at Uni, called Naked Monkey.
 It was at the end of my 3rd year, when I had to have a business idea to do an MSc in Business Creation and Entrepreneurship. 

A friend and I opened NM as an on-campus vegan food stall, which meant getting up early (well, for Uni students) to cook and serve meals at lunchtime. 

As the stall wasn't easy to scale, we decided to make Buddha bowls instead and sold them through on-campus shops and a local city cafe. We didn't become millionaires but it was a lot of fun. 

The Good Egg interview - Junnel

Welcome to the first of our new series, where we find out more about one of the lovely folks here at Cuckoo. First up is Junnel, our Performance Marketing Lead. He’s the strategic mastermind behind all our ads on Google and Facebook.

Fern Trading Limited has today launched the new branding of its FTTP (Fibre-to-the-premises) group, comprising of national wholesale network - AllPoints Fibre and national ISP (Internet Service Provider) - Cuckoo broadband, in a move that will accelerate full fibre delivery over the next five years.

Together, AllPoints Fibre and Cuckoo have a combined mission of becoming the UK’s most recommended way to connect.

The news follows Fern’s consolidation of its FTTP businesses in February this year. Cuckoo, an already established award-winning national ISP within the Fern family, will migrate the customer bases of Giganet, Jurassic Fibre and Swish Fibre over the coming months, while the businesses combine expert regional operations and national partnerships to power their new national wholesale network under the AllPoints Fibre brand.

The consolidation of all its FTTP businesses into two divisions has brought a reorganisation of teams as the new-look AllPoints Fibre and Cuckoo prepare to accelerate growth exponentially, by leveraging resources, knowledge, and expertise from across the group. The brands will remain dedicated to offering the lowest cost to serve, fast and fair services and an unmatched customer experience across both wholesale and retail markets.

Speaking on the launch, Jarlath Finnegan, CEO of Fern's FTTP Group and AllPoints Fibre, said: “It’s an exciting and dynamic time for the UK fibre market, spurred by the nation’s growing need for country-wide access to fast, reliable and fairly priced internet services. That’s why the time is right to bring our new model for accelerating deployment and uptake to market.

“AllPoints Fibre is poised to become a powerful, fully integrated wholesale business, that’s on track to build and manage multiple networks nationwide.

“Meanwhile, Cuckoo is already positioned as a truly national retail ISP challenger, with its award-winning visual identity & design system providing a solid foundation to evolve from.

“Our integrated, partner-oriented, customer-first approach, has the missing ingredients needed to provide futureproof digital foundations for all.”

Paul Hellings, CEO of Cuckoo, added: “Our Cuckoo customer base which will bring in Jurassic Fibre, Giganet and Swish Fibre in the coming months, can expect some truly exciting developments from our combined team of experts and we’re very excited to share more in due course. What I can say now, is that we will always push the envelope, not only through implementing the latest in cutting-edge Full Fibre technology, to make our products faster and more reliable than ever, but by ensuring that our customers actually feel good about their broadband, while we remain dedicated to providing them with an unmatched customer experience.”

Fern names Cuckoo and AllPoints Fibre as retail and wholesale brands for its FTTP operations

The Good Egg interview - Junnel

Most fun Cuckoo memory?

Who’s job at Cuckoo would you like to try out for 24 hours?

Favourite meeting of the day/week?

Weirdest/guiltiest food combo?

Your dream exotic pet?

Anything cool you've done we don't know about?

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Fern names Cuckoo and AllPoints Fibre as retail and wholesale brands for its FTTP operations

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