{"id":18282,"date":"2019-03-26T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=18282"},"modified":"2019-07-03T07:26:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T06:26:39","slug":"virgin-media-uk-joins-tameside-digital-infrastructure-cooperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/virgin-media-uk-joins-tameside-digital-infrastructure-cooperative.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media UK Joins Tameside Digital Infrastructure Cooperative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cable ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> has today announced that they&#8217;ve joined the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdic.coop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tameside\u2019s Digital Infrastructure Cooperative<\/a> (TDIC), which should enable them to further extend their broadband network via commercial re-use of around 50km of existing local authority owned cable ducts and fibre optic cable.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At present only around half of premises in <strong>Tameside<\/strong> (Greater Manchester) can access &#8220;<em>ultrafast broadband<\/em>&#8221; (<strong>100Mbps+<\/strong>) speeds and nearly all of that comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s cable (EuroDOCSIS) network, plus a little bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a>&#8217;s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) hybrid fibre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gfast\">G.fast<\/a>. Sadly Gigabit capable &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) providers have only the smallest of coverage, but that may soon change.<\/p>\n<p>The TDIC is an independent Cooperative Society registered under the 2014 Cooperative and Community Benefit Societies Act, which means that it is regulated by the FCA as a mutual society. Essentially what this enables it to do is take a large amount of existing council owned infrastructure and make it available at the passive layer (<strong>Dark Fibre<\/strong>) for re-use by commercial ISPs.<\/p>\n<p>No complex shareholder or clawback agreements are required for this and the public sector retains ownership, while the cooperative structure ensures the infrastructure remains neutral (i.e. access is non-discriminatory and non-exclusive). The Government&#8217;s <strong>Local Full Fibre Networks<\/strong> (LFFN) programme is supporting TDIC with a <strong>\u00a32m<\/strong> investment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Tony Reddington, VM&#8217;s Project Lightning Build Director, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very much looking forward to working with the Tameside Digital Infrastructure Cooperative and supporting its aims to maximise the availability of high capacity digital infrastructure across the region . Having overseen recent Project Lightning investment in Tameside, including the expansion of our fibre network to over <strong>7,000 premises<\/strong> in Hurst, I am passionate about supporting the region\u2019s digital ambitions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Bill Fairfoull, Deputy Leader of Tameside Council, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are delighted to welcome <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> to the Digital Infrastructure Cooperative which is continuing to go from strength to strength and I am sure that they will quickly reap the benefits that working in a mutual way can bring.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Media is already making significant investments in fibre to the premise in Tameside and we are hoping that having ready access to the Coop\u2019s extensive dark fibre network, will make further investments from them economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>The Cooperative, which is only a little over 12 months old, can now count a growing number of high profile national telecommunications operators, as well as leading local fibre operators in its membership. I am sure that Virgin Media\u2019s reputation in the market along with their wealth of experience will help encourage other service providers and other local authority areas to join.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A number of other ISPs have also joined TDIC, although sadly the press release doesn&#8217;t spell out precisely how Virgin Media&#8217;s participation will change the cable operator&#8217;s local roll-out plan. At the very least it may save them some money, as opposed to having to build more of their own new ducts in certain specific areas.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly the TDIC actually plans to expand beyond Tameside and so it will soon become known as a big <strong>Digital Infrastructure Cooperative<\/strong> (DIC). We should point out that the DIC&#8217;s network also slots into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theloopmanchester.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Loop<\/a> (managed by Gamma), which is a <strong>170km<\/strong> long fibre network (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2018\/09\/infrastructure-alliance-extends-10gbps-fibre-network-into-tameside.html\">here<\/a>) that rings its way around central Manchester. 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