{"id":18287,"date":"2019-05-21T07:39:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=18287"},"modified":"2019-05-21T10:20:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T09:20:08","slug":"kcom-complete-full-fibre-broadband-rollout-to-cover-all-of-hull-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/05\/kcom-complete-full-fibre-broadband-rollout-to-cover-all-of-hull-uk.html","title":{"rendered":"KCOM Complete Full Fibre Broadband Rollout to Cover Hull UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

The incumbent ISP for Hull and East Riding (East Yorkshire), KCOM<\/a>, appears to have announced the “completion<\/em>” of their \u00a385m “Lightstream<\/em>” roll-out, which means that nearly all of the 200,000+ premises within their network area should now be within reach of a 900Mbps+ Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) service.<\/p>\n

The operator’s target was to ensure that “every KCOM<\/a> customer will have access to Lightstream .. by March 2019<\/em>,” which in reality means that around 96% of premises within their addressable network area can now access a “full fibre<\/em>” connection and roughly 4% can take a slower 75Mbps capable Fibre-to-the-Cabinet<\/strong> (FTTC<\/a> \/ VDSL2<\/a>) solution. But we wouldn’t be surprised if a few tiny bits of ADSL<\/a>-only still exist in awkward areas.<\/p>\n

During the final Q1 2019 roll-out phase (Jan – March 2019) we saw 6,410 premises being added to their network in order to reach completion and the final locations to benefit came from the Orchard Park<\/strong> area (e.g. Dodthorpe, Homethorpe, Thorpepark Road, Gorthorpe and Ilthorpe). At the last count some 61% of their consumer base had already upgraded to one of their Lightstream packages.<\/p>\n

We should point out that a lot of the funding for this roll-out stemmed from KCOM<\/a>’s 2015 sale of their national UK (excluding Hull) fibre optic and cable duct assets to Cityfibre<\/a> (here<\/a>), which raised \u00a390m to help support their Lightstream programme. Cityfibre<\/a> has gone on to seemingly make good use of their old fibre infrastructure (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

At the time of writing the operator has not yet put out a formal press release (expected next month), although their social media accounts (here<\/a> and here<\/a>) have very much begun celebrating “the completion of our full fibre Lightstream network across Hull and East Yorkshire<\/em>.” Queue a comically cheesy celebratory video..<\/p>\n