Category: Internet Service Providers

No new cities for the CityFibre FTTP roll-out but a busy week of expansion at the existing nine places we have found live premises passed.

The UK full fibre pathway is progressing and news that ITS has secured £45m of funding from Aviva Investors will allow the operator to expand and bring a goal of 200,000 premises within reach.

Those living in Hull and East Yorkshire who are outside the current KCOM footprint may see FTTP arriving as part of a £100 million expansion plan.

Virgin Media has announced the start of a programme that should be the end of March 2020 see all its broadband customers on a minimum of a 108 Mbps cable broadband service.

The CityFibre rollout of FTTH continues with a section of Southend now with premises passed and able to order the Vodafone Gigafast service.

The 13 villages covering some 38,000 premises were announced as part of an Openreach FTTP trial back in October 2019 and now we can report seeing live premises in all thirteen exchange areas.

Openreach has issued a statement saying they have reach the two million premises passed mark for full fibre. Our own tracking of their builds in both rural and urban UK is showing a figure of 1,804,175 premises.

We learnt that the first area of Leeds to get the Vodafone Gigafast treatment from CityFibre was live this week and the footprint that we can find is now on our maps and in the checker.

Rural Gloucestershire has seen a bit more Gigaclear FTTP arrive.

The peak time speed test averages for BT were slower than expected on the evening of Thursday 5th December and the most likely explanation is capacity problems from people watching the defeat of Arsenal by Brighton on the Amazon Prime streaming platform.