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CityFibre to Connect 4,000 Solihull Community Housing Tenants to FTTP

Wednesday, Jun 1st, 2022 (11:58 am) - Score 936
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CityFibre has today announced a new “blanket wayleave agreement” with the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands (England), which will enable their existing £25m rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the town to reach 4,000 Solihull Community Housing tenants.

The town-wide deployment – delivered via civil engineering firm Callan Connect – began about a year ago and the first services are now ready to go live in the Shirley and Solihull central areas, with builds set to get underway soon in Lyndon, Elmdon and Sill Hill. But thanks to today’s agreement, this will now also be extended to benefit local social housing tenants.

NOTE: Wayleaves are complex and costly legal agreements, which grant special access to land or buildings for the deployment and management of new infrastructure.

The deployment forms part of CityFibre’s wider £4bn investment project, which has so far enabled their full fibre network to cover 1.5 million UK premises – with 1.3m ‘Ready For Service’ via a supporting ISP (here). The main aim of this build is to cover up to 8 million premises – across around 285 cities, towns and villages (c.30% of the UK) – by the end of 2025 (here).

Bashir Ahmed, CityFibre’s Area Manager for Solihull, said:

“We all know how important connectivity is today when it comes to accessing services and employment and keeping contact with friends and family. The internet is now a crucial utility, and everyone should be able to benefit from a quality service that is up to the task of supporting our data hungry lives.

For tenants in particular, better connectivity could help to maximise access to switching services for better utility deals, as well as other services including tenant portals and public service systems, such as those provided by the Department for Work and Pensions and the local council.

This agreement will make a genuine difference to thousands of people living in Solihull, and we’re committed to delivering an efficient, safe and quality network build to as many residents as possible as quickly as possible, so that even more people can benefit.”

Julian Knight MP, MP for Solihull, said:

“This agreement is great news for Solihull – ensuring no-one is left behind is critical as we upgrade the UK’s digital infrastructure and I’m delighted that a further 4,000 households will now have access to world-leading broadband.

It’s fantastic to see the progress being made with CityFibre’s rollout in Solihull, we’re now well on our way towards becoming one of the best-connected towns in the UK and the outlook is incredibly promising for our economic, social and smart city ambitions.”

Interestingly, the original deployment announcement stated that CityFibre were investing £20m to roll out across the town, while today’s announcement pegs the figure at £5m. As usual, there are a number of gigabit-capable rivals in the area, such as Openreach, Virgin Media and Hyperoptic.

Customers can sign-up to the CityFibre service in the town – once live – via UK ISPs Air Broadband and TalkTalk, with launch partner Vodafone, Zen Internet, Giganet and other providers expected to join the network soon.

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6 Responses
  1. Avatar photo james smith says:

    Who is paying for this, Solihull is an expensive place to live, and Community Housing Tenants means poor people?

    1. Avatar photo An Engineer says:

      I was waiting for the comment like this and you delivered. Congratulations.

      CityFibre are paying for the build. It’s a wayleave agreement exactly as the article says.

    2. Avatar photo Jerry says:

      Oh Dear Engineer! Outed yourself as a socialist unintentionally!

      “An Engineer” obviously isn’t a taxpayer. No taxpayer wants their hard earned £££ wasted on those who choose to be deliberately feckless.

      Yes, CityFibre installed 1Gb so these people can get 24/7 unlimited online browsing on the JobCentrePlus site so they can hopefully quit sponging off the rest of us who are working multiple jobs and actually contributing to society.

    3. Avatar photo An Engineer says:

      Believe whatever most appeals to you, Jerry. I am a taxpayer but to go into details on income is vulgar and belongs with Harry Enfield’s ‘considerably richer than you’ sketches.

      I can’t say I understand the punching down at the unemployed / underemployed however the attitude difference might be part of the reason I’m not in your position, needing multiple jobs to get by which is disgusting by the way and shouldn’t happen.

      I recommend you either read the article for the first time or read it again. Then another time. Hopefully after that you’ll understand no taxpayer funding is involved here.

  2. Avatar photo Jerry says:

    AN ENGINER: About your comment

    LOADSAAAAAMONEY & WILLIAM ULSTERMAN – True classics

    You’re making yourself sound like the sole reason of British inflation! Your “pay” sounds like the root-cause of poorer people in society getting ripped off with your high ‘fees’

    You sound like one on the common reasons many projects like broadband rollout go bankrupt… because you overcharge? That’s pretty disappointing.

    Nobody here suggested the taxpayer has funder any BROADBAND installation? That was your assumption.

    Exactly WHO is funding the mentioned people who live in social housing who refuse to work?

    With 1.5 MILLION unfulfilled jobs in the UK, it’s time for EVERYONE get a job or even two.

    Social Housing scheme is discriminative. It’s also extremely insulting to hard workers. There’s plenty of people on minimum wage who don’t get the luxury of receiving highly discounted and subsidised housing and they manage to get by.

  3. Avatar photo Michael McNally says:

    Perton what a mess Callan Connect have made of this whole estate, wherever they have been they have left sand and stone’s everywhere. COWBOYS I live at Nash Avenue WV77Ssonce nice now a dump This is the on all roads around Perton.

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