{"id":22630,"date":"2020-06-08T14:05:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T13:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=22630"},"modified":"2020-06-16T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T12:09:42","slug":"cityfibre-uk-begins-1gbps-ftth-broadband-build-in-leicester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/06\/cityfibre-uk-begins-1gbps-ftth-broadband-build-in-leicester.html","title":{"rendered":"Cityfibre UK Begins 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Build in Leicester UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a>&#8217;s civil engineering teams appear to have begun their deployment of a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a>) based broadband ISP network in the East Midlands city of Leicester (England) this month, with locals in the Belgrave and some central areas reporting lots of duct and trenching work.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Little is known about the project in <strong>Leicester<\/strong>, although in 2017 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> built a limited <strong>Dark Fibre<\/strong> network in the city to help connect local businesses (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/08\/cityfibre-unveil-1gbps-fttp-business-network-leicester-nottingham.html\">here<\/a>). The latest deployment will no doubt aim to extend outwards from that in order to reach more than 85% of local premises (homes and businesses).<\/p>\n<p>As usual this forms part of the operator&#8217;s wider <strong>\u00a34bn<\/strong> private investment plan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/cityfibre-confirm-62-uk-areas-for-4bn-ftth-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>), which aims to deploy &#8220;<em>full fibre<\/em>&#8221; broadband to cover around 1 million UK premises by the end of 2021, before potentially reaching their ambition of 8 million premises across 100+ cities and towns by the end of 2025 or later (c.30% of the UK).<\/p>\n<p>In terms of competition, much of the local market is already covered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s gigabit-capable broadband network, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> has a few tiny <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> patches and a modest deployment of slower hybrid fibre <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/gfast\">G.fast<\/a> technology. 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