Category: Wholesale

57,000 premises across East and West Sussex are set to see CityFibre build full fibre to them as part of the BDUK contract the firm holds and work has now started.

nexfibre is celebrating passing 2 million premises with its XGS-PON full fibre network and lays claim to being the only fibre provider of significant scale that exclusively uses XGS-PON.

131,000 more premises are set to benefit from Project Gigabit funding to roll-out full fibre in areas where commercial operators have indicated no commercial roll-out is likely in the next couple of years.

The old vertically integrated LitFibre full fibre network is now almost completely converted to wholesale CityFibre access with Watford and Cirencester being two of the last places to convert.

While full fibre and the increased speeds are a driver for higher data use as 4K streaming rather than just SD resolution becomes possible for some people it is often events such as sports or online games pushing data usage.

The XGS-PON roll-out by nexfibre is appeared to the majority of Belper now and overbuilds the existing Full Fibre Ltd network.

Openreach has built its FTTP network to cover 17 million homes and businesses across the UK and is orders are growing up 26% in the last year to around 68,000 per week.

CityFibre who describe themselves as the largest independent full fibre platform has commenced work on its Project Gigabit contract for Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

With the news that construction to connect properties in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes in areas where full fibre services were not expected commercially is underway from CityFibre they are now building in 6 of 9 contracts they hold.

The Advent Calendar today holds not just a small piece of chocolate but the milestone that the thinkbroadband footprint tracking is showing the Openreach full fibre footprint as covering 50.001% of UK premises.