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Residents of Walton-in-Gordano in rural Somerset (England) have become the latest in the county to find themselves in a rather unusual situation, where two alternative UK network (altnet) ISPs – Gigaclear<\/a> and TrueSpeed<\/a> – are proposing to extend their Gigabit capable “full fibre<\/em>” (FTTP<\/a>) broadband networks into the area.<\/p>\n

At present the state aid supported Connecting Devon and Somerset<\/a> (CDS) project with Gigaclear<\/a> is already known to be targeting the coastal village of Walton-in-Gordano<\/strong> as part of their existing roll-out plan, which could see the ISP’s 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) network reaching the area by 2020.<\/p>\n

However that project has recently suffered some significant delays (here<\/a>) and it’s now widely feared that it could take Gigaclear a lot longer before it reaches the rural community (a revised plan has yet to be agreed), which is home to around 300 people. As a result locals may be stuck using slow copper ADSL<\/a> broadband lines for even longer.<\/p>\n

But Gigaclear are no longer the only player in town and in a rare event TrueSpeed<\/a>, which is another FTTP provider that operates in the region, has also proposed to extend their network into the same community. According to the North Somerset Times<\/a>, this build could cost a hefty \u00a3500,000<\/strong> and the ISP won’t agree to do the work unless 30% of local premises provisionally sign-up (demand-led commercial deployment).<\/p>\n

Assuming locals agree then the network would take around 12-18 months to deploy, which seems likely to mean that TrueSpeed<\/a> could get there before Gigaclear, raising questions over the latter operator’s use of public investment to do the same area.<\/p>\n

Admittedly this isn’t the first time that we’ve seen TrueSpeed clash (overbuild) with other operators in the area (usually Openreach<\/a>’s slower FTTC<\/a> solution) and they don’t seem to mind, so long as there’s enough interest to make it worthwhile. In theory Walton-in-Gordano might even find itself with a choice of two FTTP providers, which is an extremely rare thing to see in any rural location.<\/p>\n

TrueSpeed has set itself an aspiration of covering 75,000 premises<\/strong> by 2021 and possibly 200,000 <\/strong>by 2025 (here<\/a>), although they tend not to say much about their roll-out progress in public. Much of their initial deployment has focused on the Chew Valley<\/strong> region but they’re also going beyond that.<\/p>\n

Despite being a fairly young provider the ISP was in 2017 able to secure a huge investment of \u00a375m<\/strong> from Aviva Investors to expand their network (here<\/a>), which is powering their expansion. Today the ISP was also awarded with INCA’s Gold Standard Quality Mark (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Residents of Walton-in-Gordano in rural Somerset (England) have become the latest in the county to find themselves in a rather unusual situation, where two alternative UK network (altnet) ISPs – Gigaclear and TrueSpeed – are proposing to extend their Gigabit capable “full fibre” (FTTP) broadband networks into the area.<\/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":[65,56,416,439],"class_list":["post-17803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-ftth","tag-fttp","tag-gigaclear","tag-somerset"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"\nGigaclear and Truespeed Battle to Bring FTTP into Somerset Village - ISPreview UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Residents of Walton-in-Gordano in rural Somerset (England) have become the latest in the county to find themselves in a rather unusual situation, where\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/01\/gigaclear-and-truespeed-battle-to-bring-fttp-into-somerset-village.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gigaclear and Truespeed Battle to Bring FTTP into Somerset Village - 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