{"id":29388,"date":"2021-11-29T11:32:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=29388"},"modified":"2021-11-29T11:32:12","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T11:32:12","slug":"cityfibre-to-harness-shared-digital-infrastructure-for-fttp-in-blackpool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/cityfibre-to-harness-shared-digital-infrastructure-for-fttp-in-blackpool.html","title":{"rendered":"CityFibre to Harness Shared Digital Infrastructure for FTTP in Blackpool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> aim to boost their \u00a360m rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband ISP network in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool by joining the <a href=\"https:\/\/cni.coop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cooperative Network Infrastructure<\/a> (CNI) scheme, which enables commercial re-use of existing local authority owned cable ducts and fibre.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The operator&#8217;s work in <strong>Blackpool<\/strong>, supported by Telent, began during the spring of 2021 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/04\/cityfibre-and-telent-start-blackpools-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>) in the Moor Park area of Bispham and the entire project is expected to be finished by the end of 2024. By harnessing the CNI, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a>, along with existing operators like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vm\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Media<\/a>, will also gain wholesale access to fibre and exchange point facilities to help support their build.<\/p>\n<p>As the CNI website explains: &#8220;<em>Tameside, Blackpool [, Manchester, Sussex] and their public sector partners invest in new infrastructure assets where a business case can be made to meet needs. Then those assets are sewn together to form a coherent, integrated infrastructure that can be shared using a co-operative. In general, the business case for each investment stands alone. By linking assets together into a shared network, the business case is multiplied<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>Steve Thorpe, Local City Manager at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With our teams already starting to build the network in the borough, collaboration and coordination with local partners is imperative. Membership of the CNI is a critical and positive step forward and we\u2019re looking forward to the new opportunities that this will bring.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of the above should aid CityFibre\u2019s wider <strong>\u00a34bn<\/strong> investment programme, which has already covered 1 million UK premises with <a class=\"shortlink shortlink-110 shortlink-chref\" title=\"fttp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-chref=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/broadband_fibre_optic.php\">FTTP<\/a> and aims to have 8 million \u201c<em>substantially completed<\/em>\u201d \u2013 across 285 cities, towns and villages (c.30% of the UK) \u2013 by the end of 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/cityfibre-name-279-uk-areas-for-4bn-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>). This will also cover a total of around 800,000 businesses, 400,000 public sector sites and 250,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/5g\">5G<\/a> access points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CityFibre aim to boost their \u00a360m rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool by joining the Cooperative Network Infrastructure (CNI) scheme, which enables commercial re-use of existing local authority owned cable ducts and fibre.<\/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":[418,56,435],"class_list":["post-29388","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 v27.9 - 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