{"id":25061,"date":"2020-12-02T12:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=25061"},"modified":"2020-12-03T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:16:01","slug":"cityfibre-to-start-89m-fttp-rollout-for-reading-and-gloucester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/cityfibre-to-start-89m-fttp-rollout-for-reading-and-gloucester.html","title":{"rendered":"Cityfibre to Start FTTP Rollout for Reading, Plymouth and Gloucester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> has announced that their plan to rollout a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" title=\"fttp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a>) based broadband ISP network across the large UK town of Reading (Berkshire), the city of Gloucester (Gloucestershire) and Plymouth (Devon), costing \u00a358m, \u00a331m and \u00a352m respectively, is due to begin in January 2021.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The project forms part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a>&#8217;s wider <strong>\u00a34bn<\/strong> investment programme (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/cityfibre-confirm-62-uk-areas-for-4bn-ftth-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/11\/cityfibre-sign-1-5bn-of-contracts-for-uk-fttp-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>), which currently 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) &#8211; the latter target is expected to be \u201c<em>substantially completed<\/em>\u201d by the end of 2025. The operator usually aims to cover 85%+ of premises in each location they target.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a>&#8217;s network is supported by various ISPs, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> (<strong><a class=\"shortlink shortlink-89 shortlink shortlink-89\" title=\"vodafone gigafast broadband\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafonegigafast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gigafast Broadband<\/a><\/strong>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/zen_internet\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Internet<\/a> etc., although they aren&#8217;t all live or available in every covered town\/city.<\/div>\n<p>The <strong>Kier Group<\/strong> has been contracted to handle the civil engineering work in Gloucester, while<strong> Instalcom Ltd<\/strong> will do the same for Reading and <strong>Oakway Ltd<\/strong> is handling Plymouth. As usual Cityfibre will use their existing Dark Fibre infrastructure as a foundation for the new networks, as well as working closely with the local authority.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Reading, Cityfibre&#8217;s biggest gigabit-capable competitor will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>, although <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\/hyperopticfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperoptic<\/a>, Glide and OFNL also have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> deployments in some parts of the town. The story in Gloucester is almost identical, except for the absence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/hyperopticfibre\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperoptic<\/a>&#8217;s service in local MDUs. Similarly, Plymouth is currently dominated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> having a few small patches of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE 3rd Dec 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Added Plymouth too as many details are similar and they were only announced a day later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cityfibre has announced that their plan to rollout a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across the large UK town of Reading (Berkshire), the city of Gloucester (Gloucestershire) and Plymouth (Devon), costing \u00a358m, \u00a331m and \u00a352m respectively, is due to begin in January 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[467,418,438,56,451,96],"class_list":["post-25061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-berkshire","tag-cityfibre","tag-devon","tag-fttp","tag-gloucestershire","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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