{"id":16622,"date":"2018-07-24T15:06:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=16622"},"modified":"2018-07-24T15:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:06:37","slug":"cityfibre-confirm-start-of-1gbps-ftth-broadband-build-in-aberdeen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/07\/cityfibre-confirm-start-of-1gbps-ftth-broadband-build-in-aberdeen.html","title":{"rendered":"Cityfibre Confirm Start of 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Build in Aberdeen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"shortlink shortlink-71 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"cityfibre\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.cityfibre.com\">Cityfibre<\/a> has named the first streets in Aberdeen (Scotland) to benefit from their \u00a340m (private investment) deployment of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-122 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ftth\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTH<\/a>) broadband network with UK ISP <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a>, which has just this week officially entered the construction phase.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The city-wide <strong>Aberdeen<\/strong> project was first unveiled in February 2018 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/02\/cityfibre-vodafone-target-aberdeen-1gbps-home-broadband.html\">here<\/a>) and forms part of a wider<strong> \u00a3500m<\/strong> deployment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/vodafone-cityfibre-target-gigabit-broadband-5-million-uk-premises.html\">here<\/a>), which will aim to cover a &#8220;<em>minimum<\/em>&#8221; of <strong>1 million homes<\/strong> in up to 12 of <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-71 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"cityfibre\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.cityfibre.com\">Cityfibre<\/a>&#8217;s existing cities or towns (this is expected to be &#8220;<em>largely complete<\/em>&#8221; by 2021). After that there\u2019s also the potential to extend up to 5 million UK homes by 2025, which would require significantly more investment.<\/p>\n<p>So far both operators have confirmed that Aberdeen, Peterborough, Edinburgh, Coventry, Huddersfield, Milton Keynes and Stirling will be among the first UK cities to benefit (accounting for about 500,000 premises and \u00a3315m of the total planned investment). Work is already underway in some of the other chosen cities too (e.g. Milton Keynes and Peterborough).<\/p>\n<p>At present Cityfibre already have a <strong>Dark Fibre<\/strong> network in Aberdeen, which is being extended to over 100km in length (i.e. bringing the total public sector sites served to 166). This will make an ideal starting point for the new <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-122 shortlink-chref\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"ftth\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTH<\/a> extension to local residents.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Neil Blagden, <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"vodafone\">Vodafone<\/a> UK&#8217;s COO, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Residents of Aberdeen will no longer need to settle for slow, unreliable broadband. We aim to start offering our Vodafone Gigafast Broadband service from early next year once the build phase is well underway.<\/p>\n<p>It will give home broadband speeds of around 900Mbps \u2013 about 20 times the current UK average \u2013 and will allow customers to surf the Internet, download HD films, play games online and upload videos at the same time, using multiple devices, without interruption.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Allan McEwan, CityFibre&#8217;s Local City Development Manager, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re at a really exciting stage of our fibre-to-the-premises roll out in Aberdeen as the build work gets underway. This investment comes at a key time for the city. Aberdeen rightly has a global reputation as a leading energy centre, but the recent downturn highlighted the urgent need for diversification. In this increasingly digital world, full fibre infrastructure beneath our streets will play a critical role in underpinning this process and delivering the city\u2019s ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Full fibre will allow the city to be more innovative and more productive, while attracting inward investment and boosting the local economy for generations to come. And it won\u2019t just improve business at home \u2013 it will also help businesses take their products or services to an international audience.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The local civil engineering work is being delivered by contractor GCU Ltd on Cityfibre&#8217;s behalf, starting with streets in Kincorth and Cummings Park, with Smithfield following soon after. One of our readers has also noted to us that it\u2019s possible to track the local rollout via the Scottish Road Works commissioner website (check the area around Northfield): <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadworksscotland.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.roadworksscotland.org<\/a><\/strong> .<\/p>\n<p>The FTTH rollout is also expected to begin in two other Scottish cities &#8211; Edinburgh and Stirling &#8211; sometime later in 2018. Meanwhile Vodafone hope to launch their related <strong>Gigafast Broadband<\/strong> product to customers by early 2019, although the first trials have already begun in Milton Keynes with 50 homes (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/07\/isp-vodafone-uk-selects-50-homes-to-test-1gbps-ftth-broadband.html\">here<\/a>). Locals can pre-register their interest in the service here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=1257&amp;awinaffid=110483&amp;clickref=ispreview&amp;p=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vodafone.co.uk%2Fbroadband%2Fultrafast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.vodafone.co.uk\/broadband\/ultrafast<\/strong><\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cityfibre has named the first streets in Aberdeen (Scotland) to benefit from their \u00a340m (private investment) deployment of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network with UK ISP Vodafone, which has just this week officially entered the construction phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,65,56,89,96],"class_list":["post-16622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-cityfibre","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-scotland","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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