{"id":19204,"date":"2019-08-05T13:35:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=19204"},"modified":"2019-08-05T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:35:04","slug":"virgin-media-complete-fttp-build-to-3700-premises-in-hyde-tameside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/08\/virgin-media-complete-fttp-build-to-3700-premises-in-hyde-tameside.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media Complete FTTP Build to 3700 Premises in Hyde, Tameside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The piecemeal announcements continue today as UK ISP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a> confirms that they&#8217;ve completed an extension of their 500Mbps+ capable &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband and TV network to 3,700 premises (homes and businesses) in the Tameside town of Hyde, Greater Manchester.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By the sounds of it this part of their build may have benefited from Virgin&#8217;s decision earlier this year (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/virgin-media-uk-joins-tameside-digital-infrastructure-cooperative.html\">here<\/a>) to join the local <a href=\"https:\/\/cni.coop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cooperative Network Infrastructure<\/a> (formerly the Tameside Digital Infrastructure Cooperative), which has enabled them to extend their ultrafast broadband ISP network via commercial re-use of around 50km of existing local authority owned cable ducts and fibre optic cable.<\/p>\n<p>As usual this forms part of their national <strong>Project Lightning<\/strong> work, which aims to add an additional 3-4 million premises to their UK coverage (so far they&#8217;ve completed over 1.7 million) via a mix of Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) technology and <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) via Radio Frequency Over Glass (RFoG). Both methods make use of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/docsis\">DOCSIS<\/a> standard so as to harness the same consumer hardware (Hub 3.0 router and V6 TV Box etc.).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Paul Hutchinson, VM&#8217;s Regional Director for North West England, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hyde residents and businesses can now start to enjoy the benefits of our incredible services. 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