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British Fibre Networks Sign-up 24000 UK Homes for FTTH Broadband

Friday, Dec 14th, 2018 (5:55 pm) - Score 4,917

New operator British Fibre Networks, which aspires to create an open access and 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband ISP network to serve over 35% of UK new build homes by 2020, has announced that they’ve so far signed up 24,000 new homes via 50 housing developers.

The operator began its first deployment at an apartment block in North Wales for LW Group back in August 2018 (here) and at that time they’d managed to sign up 2,000 homes for a future roll-out. The next batch of locations to benefit will be in the North West of England (e.g. Cheshire and Liverpool), although no site names were revealed and we don’t know how many premises have already been completed.

Elsewhere BFN said they’d appointed “fibre expertJim McBride to be their Technical and Process Director. Jim will be responsible for ensuring that all BFN equipment is above specifications, and will reach connectivity on relevant networks. He also previously worked with BFN CEO Elfed Thomas at the defunct i3 Group.

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Also joining the BFN team is new Commercial Director Liam Doorey, a consumer electronics specialist with over 20 years of experience in branding, product development, marketing and sales. He was previously Head of Product Marketing at Philex Electronic Ltd.

Jim commented:

“When we first created i3 Group, we were well ahead of the market – and now we have the opportunity to go even further as the market changes rapidly, and the methods and tools used evolve. We understand the challenges of working with pure fibre and the incredible benefits we can bring to communities, especially in how we can help less urban areas achieve connectivity when they have previously been neglected.”

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