CityFibre’s Glasgow FTTP Rollout Moves into North West of City
CityFibre’s ongoing rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in Glasgow (Scotland) has now moved into the North West side of the city, which is being supported by new contractor Glenevin (previously they only seemed to be working with PMK).
Construction in the north west of the city is the next stage, with work having previously begun in the south of the city earlier this year. Engineers have now started in the Netherton area and that’s expected to be followed, in late September 2021, by Anniesland and Temple. After that, the teams will move into the Port Dundas area during November.
Sadly, the operator still hasn’t said precisely how much funding they’re putting into the build, although it forms part of their wider £4bn commitment to cover around 8 million UK premises across 285 cities, towns and villages – c.30% of the UK – by the end of 2025 (here).
The network is not yet live, but once activated locals should be able to order services via a number of ISPs, such as Vodafone (Gigafast Broadband), TalkTalk (Future Fibre), Zen Internet, Giganet and others – these aren’t all live or available in every location yet.
We should point out that Virgin Media already has significant gigabit-capable coverage across most of the city, while Openreach’s FTTP deployment has also been making strong progress. A few smaller deployments also exist via Fibre Nest (new build homes from Persimmon) and Hyperoptic (mostly MDUs).
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It’ll be TalkTalk and Brawband that’ll be the providers to start.
Indeed, Brawband already have a Glasgow page where they invite you to buy “the fastest most powerful connection in Inverness”
https://www.brawband.co.uk/glasgow/
Worth bearing in mind that Brawband have a 1TB monthly data limit and force you to use their router.
Thanks Hugh, I’ll bare that in mind. Not to recommend them.
Are vodafone unavailable in this area then – as their customer service isn’t as bad as talktalks and they offer better value for money than them, £32 for 200mbps instead of 150mbps with talktalk. They don’t feature the same 1TB cap as Brawband and don’t force you to use their router.
On the latest statement it actually mentions Vodafone and TalkTalk with others to join soon
“Brawband have a 1TB monthly data limit ”
Simply not true. unlimited data, read the website.
Here you go:
“If a customer is transferring extremely large quantities of data (in excess of 1TB per month) on a regular basis we will, wherever possible, make adjustments to the network to prevent this from impacting other users. If such adjustments are not technically possible BrawBand reserves the right to limit the customer’s bandwidth or to move them to a more suitable and uncontended service which may have a higher cost.”
https://www.brawband.co.uk/term/acceptable-usage/
““If a customer is transferring extremely large quantities of data (in excess of 1TB per month) on a regular basis”
Not a cap, a fair usage policy, lots of ISPs have these. “James” stated there is a 1TB cap which would mean you once you reach that amount you, in effect, get cut off. That’s not true. If you want to read the small print, best understand what it says.
Lots of fixed line ISP’s don’t have Fair usage polices.
The vast majority of fixed line providers that advertise unlimited provide exactly that, unlimited.
Brawband are very much the exception and should be called out for it.
They also refuse to let you use your own router, maybe not a big deal for most but it’s a total no-go for me and anyone else IT literate who already has more capable hardware or wants better control over their own network.
Cityfibre are pretty close to connecting up in my area now but as long as the only options are Talktalk and Brawband, I won’t be bothering.
At least TalkTalk doesn’t have a fair usage policy nor do they stop you from using your own equipment. Also I’m sure Vodafone will also be available.
I’m on Talktalks OpenReach 550/75 product and it’s fantastic.
As long as I don’t need any support in the next 18 months I shouldn’t have an issue.
“James” claims ” TalkTalk doesn’t have a fair usage policy”.
But they do.
“6.1 You may not use your services, or allow your services to be used:
…
(h) in such a way, or in such amount, that will have an adverse impact on our network (or any part of it)”
So at some unspecified point you could be in breach of your contract. At least Brawband give you a clue as to when that might happen.
“So at some unspecified point you could be in breach of your contract.”
Can you provide evidence of any TT customers – in recent times – who have been kicked off?
Pmk contractors seem to be taking a long time just in the south side – the planned roadworks keep getting pushed out every few weeks. Seems like a good idea to bring someone else on board to speed things up. Just waiting to see who gets to me first Openreach or city fibre.
I don’t know how reliable the roadworks websites are for CF in GLA. They still have works showing on streets which I’m sure are already done.