Newark to Benefit from CityFibre’s £10m FTTP Broadband Rollout UPDATE
CityFibre UK has today confirmed that they’ll invest £10m to cover almost all of the premises in the Nottinghamshire (England) market town of Newark (Newark-on-Trent) with their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. Construction work is planned to begin this November 2022.
The new build forms part of CityFibre’s wider £4.9bn investment programme 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). So far, the operator has already covered 1.7 million UK premises – with 1.5m ‘Ready For Service‘ via a supporting ISP (here).
As usual, CityFibre will face some competition from established gigabit operators in the town, with Virgin Media (VMO2) already covering the majority of premises. Openreach are also known to be rolling out FTTP in the town and ITS Technology have some coverage of business areas. But we haven’t previously seen any major deployments by smaller alternative network providers.. until now.
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Area Manager, Dominika Walker, said:
“The future of Newark’s digital connectivity starts here. We’ve had great success in deploying our Full Fibre network in other areas of Nottinghamshire in partnership with Nottinghamshire County Council, and we cannot wait for local residents and businesses to experience first-hand what is possible with strong digital connectivity.”
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UPDATE 14th March 2023
A few months later than expected, but CityFibre just announced that their rollout in Newark has finally started and is being delivered by Trust Utility Management, with completion expected by mid-2024.
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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I’m noticing a lot of Cityfibre articles on their expansion into a town / city with little information other than a big money number, might be worth doing one big citydibre article for every few which come out.
* does contain information from Mark on operators in that area but id still condense them into 1 article.
I am contemplating something like that, as they’re becoming far too piecemeal with it. But on the other hand, if I have the time, then I’ll usually still run one piece per announcement. I don’t have a strict rule on this, but there are a lot of altnet announcements to juggle these days.
The downside to summary pieces is that everybody else has already written about the locations before you get one up, and I don’t like doing “old” news.
@Mark – Perhaps it makes sense to have a ticker or banner on the home page that shows *Update Date + Company name + location*. Click the ticker/banner link and one can read the full article(which again can just be edits on the operator page with new locations added)
Mark, ITS Technology Group have deployed their Faster Britain network in Newark on Trent, its live now in the Town Centre and key business districts across the town.
Ah yes, forgot to add ITS, although they are more of a business network and ISPr are more consumer centric.