Digital Infrastructure Start Full Fibre Build in 5 South Yorkshire Locations
Network operator Digital Infrastructure and sibling UK broadband ISP BeFibre have today revealed that they’ve entered the construction phase on their recently announced (here) Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) infrastructure builds for the South Yorkshire locations of Thurnscoe, Harlington, Barnburgh, Bolton upon Dearne, and Goldthorpe.
Upon completion, approximately 9,700 residents in the large village of Thurnscoe and the surrounding areas will be able to enjoy the new service. By Autumn 2023, Thurnscoe and surrounding areas are expected to be ready to go live. But Thurnscoe also exists on the FTTP rollout plans for Zzoomm, MS3 and CityFibre. Suffice to say that the competition will be strong, despite some of these areas being smaller locations.
Customers can expect to pay from £25 per month (discounted from £29) on a 24-month term for an unlimited 150Mbps (symmetric) package with free installation, which rises to just £30 for their top 900Mbps tier (discounted from £49).
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Lionel Spencer, Delivery and Ops Director at DI, said:
“We’re delighted to have begun the build phase of our network rollout in Thurnscoe and the surrounding areas in South Yorkshire. Digital Infrastructure continues to work at pace as we aim to provide our build areas with a future-proofed network, that will give the residents an option in these locations to avail themselves of Gigabit capable infrastructure which provides them with consistent speeds.”
The operator, which began its rollout in 2021 and aims to cover 1 million premises across 80 UK towns and cities by the end of 2027 (here), has so far created an initial rollout plan to reach 400,000 premises. In terms of actual build, in June 2023 they claimed to have already covered 100,000 premises (Ready for Service) and were selling across more than 30 of the country’s towns and cities (e.g. Crewe, Brentwood, Worcester, Clacton on Sea etc.).
At present, Digital Infrastructure still anticipates that their build areas will double by the end of 2023 (c. 60 areas).
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Nothing quite like including a photo showing inadequate guarding. Also how’s the oxygen/explosive gas levels outside the chamber doing?
Plus wrong lifter, no roller bar. No obvious NRSWA vehicle guarding.
And very like the pair installing fibre to a neighbours house, no gas test, no roller, no proper guarding. In their case the pair of them we pulling the fibre away from the hole guarded as well as that one.
They didn’t uncoil the fibre properly either so one of them was trying to get the kinks out of it by pulling it across another driveway over part of the road across a path/right of way and then down a path that is privately owned. Zero regard for H&S and anyone around them.
The company the pair worked for – Openreach, not contractors proper Openreach employees.
So there could be 5 networks overbuilding each other in Thurnscoe, that’s ridiculous.
Someone’s going to be putting fibre optic cables in the ground that will eventually sit doing nothing, what a waste of materials and resources.
So much for the efficiency of the free market….
Even it is a fail, it is is still infinitely more efficient than communism because it is a loss for the ones involved, not for the UK taxpayer
In my opinion there should be a limit on the number of companies overbuilding in one area.
@John – You’ll be shocked to learn that we have a ‘communist’ National Grid for electricity distribution.
Not shocked at all, in fact that is the reason why energy prices are at record highs not just in the UK but in multiple countries
Monopoly is the logical outcome of competition, if this wasn’t true there would be no need for regulators. Maybe conversely perhaps the regulators should have a role in preventing unsustainable competition.
Monopoly is the outcome of govt intervention, NOT competition. Monopoly is the OPPOSITE of competition
Ofcom rules should have made all players co tribute to a country wide playing field leveler. i.e. for every day 100 properties you serve in a place of your choosing, you must pay into a fund or provide connection to one premises in a “hard to reach” classified area.
Allows competition in the main but ensures it’s not only incumbents and tax payers that are funding the have nots.
Ofcommunist should not do that. That would just make companies really just cherry pick the cheapest/wealthy locations, lie to keep numbers low, pass that dumb tax to customers making services more expensive and avoid scaling up
People come up with these dumb ideas that always create more issues is the state in a nutshell