{"id":26686,"date":"2021-04-19T10:13:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=26686"},"modified":"2021-04-19T10:13:24","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T09:13:24","slug":"cityfibre-and-telent-start-blackpools-gigabit-broadband-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/cityfibre-and-telent-start-blackpools-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"CityFibre and Telent Start Blackpool&#8217;s Gigabit Broadband Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> and their civil engineering partner Telent have today broken ground on a new \u00a360m project in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool, which aims to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) based broadband ISP network to cover nearly all local homes and businesses.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The project forms part of the operator\u2019s wider \u00a34bn investment programme, which ultimately aims to cover 1 million UK premises with their alternative <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> network by the end of 2021 (over 650,000 have already been reached) and then 8 million premises across 285 cities, towns and villages &#8211; c.30% of the UK (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/cityfibre-name-279-uk-areas-for-4bn-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>). The latter target is expected to be \u201c<em>substantially completed<\/em>\u201d by the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">Cityfibre<\/a> is being 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>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/zen_internet\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Internet<\/a>, Giganet and others, but they aren&#8217;t all live or available in every location yet. The operator usually aims to cover 85%+ of premises in each town or city they target.<\/div>\n<p>Work in Blackpool has now started in the Moor Park area of Bispham and the entire project is expected to be finished by the end of 2024. We note that Telent is also supporting some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a>&#8217;s other builds, such as in Chester and Preston.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Steve Thorpe, CityFibre&#8217;s City Manager for Blackpool, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m immensely excited and proud to see work getting underway in Blackpool today. This is the start of an exciting new chapter for the town as it gets ready to thrive in the digital age. It\u2019s important to remember that any short-term disruption will pay off tremendously in the long-term &#8211; once the network\u2019s built, it will serve the community\u2019s connectivity needs for decades to come.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In terms of gigabit-capable rivals, the town is already extremely well covered by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>&#8217;s network, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/openreach\" target=\"_blank\">Openreach<\/a> also have a small bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> in other parts of the town. On top of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yayzi.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Yayzi Broadband<\/a> via the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/itstechnology\" target=\"_blank\">ITS Technology<\/a> group are also deploying in the town and <a href=\"https:\/\/wefibre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WeFibre<\/a> (Telcom) have plans for the area too.<\/p>\n<p>Like some of the other deployments named above, CityFibre&#8217;s deployment is similarly designed to complement the Blackpool &amp; Fylde Coast full fibre network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CityFibre and their civil engineering partner Telent have today broken ground on a new \u00a360m project in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool, which aims to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network to cover nearly all local homes and businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[418,56,435],"class_list":["post-26686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-cityfibre","tag-fttp","tag-lancashire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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