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Openreach<\/a> is in Cardiff today to talk-up the progress of their “Fibre First<\/em>” project, which among other things confirmed that over the past few months they’ve added 100K premises to their UK coverage of “full fibre<\/em>” FTTP<\/a> broadband (total of 600,000+ premises passed).<\/p>\n

The Fibre First programme was officially launched in February 2018 (here<\/a>) and aims to cover 3 million premises with Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) technology by the end of 2020. At present 9 cities make up the first phase of deployment (Bristol, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, London and Manchester), but a total of 40 UK towns, cities and boroughs are expected to benefit.<\/p>\n

According to Openreach<\/a>’s MD, Kim Mears<\/strong>, work to roll-out the new “ultrafast broadband<\/em>” network in Cardiff is now “well underway … with tens of thousands of homes and businesses in the final stages of being connected<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

Kim Mears said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Cardiff already has a thriving digital economy with widespread access to high-speed broadband \u2013 with more than 98 per cent of premises already able to access superfast speeds [30Mbps+]. We\u2019re taking this to the next level by working closely with key partners across the city to build a Fibre to the Premises network capable of 1Gbps speeds \u2013 that\u2019s about 24 times faster than the current UK average.<\/p>\n

This has the potential to completely transform the way people go online, and opens up a world of opportunity. It\u2019s also an important step in future-proofing Britain\u2019s broadband network and supporting emerging mobile technologies like 5G<\/a>.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately Openreach hasn’t clarified how long their roll-out of FTTP in Cardiff alone will take or precisely how many premises will be covered, although we note that they’ll also be deploying their hybrid fibre G.fast<\/a> technology in the Welsh city. The latter will focus on covering about 20,000 premises in areas of Cardiff where FTTP doesn’t reach (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

We should point out that Cardiff is already well covered by Virgin Media<\/a>’s 350Mbps capable cable broadband and TV network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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