{"id":11310,"date":"2016-03-09T16:59:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=11310"},"modified":"2016-03-09T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:50:23","slug":"ihs-claim-cityfibre-fttp-cover-20-percent-uk-homes-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/03\/ihs-claim-cityfibre-fttp-cover-20-percent-uk-homes-2020.html","title":{"rendered":"IHS Claim Cityfibre FTTP to Cover 20 Percent of UK Homes by 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihs.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">IHS<\/a> has said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a>&#8217;s Gigabit fibre optic (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband network will increase its coverage area from &#8220;<em>15% of all UK households to 20%<\/em>&#8221; by 2020, which will help to boost NGA Internet connections to 15.5 million. But the figures do require some clarification.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The full report doesn&#8217;t seem to be available to the public, at least we couldn&#8217;t find a downloadable copy of it and as such we can only go off the bits of very general information in their summary. However some of the claims, without the proper context, could easily confuse.<\/p>\n<p>One of the reasons for that flows from its focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a>&#8217;s on-going deployment of ultrafast fibre optic broadband and Ethernet services, which will be deployed in as many as 50 UK cities by 2020 (e.g. York, Peterborough, Coventry, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow). In particular there&#8217;s a big focus on network coverage and talk of providing &#8220;<em>direct competition with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/btinfinityuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BTInfinity<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Fiona Vanier, Senior Analyst at IHS Technology, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This means that internet service providers looking to move into certain towns or cities may have the option of choosing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> as a wholesaler instead of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>. Key players in the UK broadband market, such as Sky and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, already recognize CityFibre as a viable alternative to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>, and a number of significant agreements have been signed with CityFibre over the last 12 to 18 months.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All good so far. The report then states that &#8220;<em>by 2020, CityFibre is planning to increase its coverage area from 15 percent of all UK households to 20 percent<\/em>,&#8221; but this is not entirely accurate and appears to be talking about the hypothetical addressable market reach rather than actual &#8220;<em>premises passed<\/em>&#8221; (imagine using a similar definition alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>&#8217;s fibre network).<\/p>\n<p>In practical terms the number of UK homes that can pick-up the phone today and order a consumer affordable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> service over Cityfibre&#8217;s network is much smaller, with more than 20,000 premises passed in <strong>Bournemouth<\/strong> (Gigler) and around 5,000 in <strong>York<\/strong> via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/bskyb\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Sky Broadband<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>&#8217;s UFO solution (rising to 20,000 eventually).<\/p>\n<p>The rest of their network is primarily focused on connecting public sector sites and businesses, but it does not physically run past the driveways of 15% of UK homes.. at least not yet (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/02\/still-no-united-kingdom-on-world-ultrafast-ftth-broadband-ranking.html\" target=\"_blank\">see here for another reflection of today&#8217;s FTTP\/H coverage<\/a>). In order to achieve true 15% coverage Cityfibre would need to have delivered a lot more Joint Ventures like the one in York, with significant street level deployments being built much closer to homes.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you the potential is certainly there and Cityfibre have done an impressive job of getting the core network in place, but you still have to do a lot of painfully slow and expensive civil works to expand out from that in order to reach individual homes. The service then also needs to be made available for homes to order, otherwise giving a coverage figure is a touch fruitless.<\/p>\n<p>However there&#8217;s no doubt that alternative network providers (IHS also mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/gigaclear\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Gigaclear<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\">B4RN<\/a> etc.) are playing a much bigger role today and that will only grow over the next few years, which is good and provides useful competition for the big boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report from IHS has said that Cityfibre&#8217;s Gigabit fibre optic (FTTP) broadband network will increase its coverage area from &#8220;15% of all UK households to 20%&#8221; by 2020, which will help to boost NGA Internet connections to 15.5 million. 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