{"id":22686,"date":"2020-06-14T00:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T23:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=22686"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:05:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T09:05:19","slug":"cityfibre-uk-begins-1gbps-ftth-broadband-build-in-inverness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/06\/cityfibre-uk-begins-1gbps-ftth-broadband-build-in-inverness.html","title":{"rendered":"Cityfibre UK Begins 1Gbps FTTH Broadband Build in Inverness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a>&#8217;s civil engineering teams have now started to build a new \u00a320m 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 city of Inverness (Scotland). Some of the first to benefit are expected to be in the Balloch, Culloden, Smithton, Resaurie, Westhill, Raigmore and Crown areas.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new network will no doubt benefit from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> and Capita&#8217;s state aid supported \u00a39.5m contract under the UK Government&#8217;s <strong>Local Full Fibre Networks<\/strong> (LFFN) programme, which has been separately tasked with building a new <strong>Dark Fibre<\/strong> network to connect 152 public sector sites (schools, council etc.) across the challenging areas of Inverness, Fort William, Thurso and Wick (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2019\/03\/inverness-fort-william-thurso-and-wick-to-get-full-fibre-network.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>However the latest deployment, which focuses on connecting local homes and businesses, represents a significant commercial extension and forms part of their wider \u00a34bn investment (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/cityfibre-confirm-62-uk-areas-for-4bn-ftth-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>). Under this project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> aims to cover around 1 million premises by the end of 2021 and then 8 million across 100+ cities and towns (c.30% of the UK), which is expected to be &#8220;<em>substantially completed<\/em>&#8221; by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The local plans for Inverness suggest that civil engineering, which is being delivered by contractor <strong>GCU UK Limited<\/strong>, will be taking place on a massive scale over the next few months and the bulk of that then looks likely to complete by October 2021. However a formal completion date has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The city looks to be a good target for Cityfibre because their gigabit-capable rival, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>, has zero presence in that area (not unlike the situation in Stirling) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a>) similarly only has a limited deployment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> services. As such the network operator should be able to scoop a strong first-mover advantage if they can build fast enough (it certainly looks as if this will be a relatively rapid deployment).<\/p>\n<p>At present Cityfibre has two residential ISPs on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ftth\">FTTH<\/a> network, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, although the latter has yet to go live outside of their limited <strong>FibreNation<\/strong> patch. Meanwhile the only cities where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> has an agreement to sell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafonegigafast\"><strong>Gigafast Broadband<\/strong><\/a> are in the following locations: Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Aberdeen, Stirling, Coventry, Huddersfield, Leeds, Cambridge, Southend, Bournemouth, Northampton and Edinburgh (no mention of Inverness, yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cityfibre&#8217;s civil engineering teams have now started to build a new \u00a320m 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) based broadband ISP network in the city of Inverness (Scotland). 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