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Broadband ISP WightFibre<\/a>, which operates a network across the Isle of Wight – just off the South Coast of Hampshire in England, today claims to have become the first telecommunications operator in the UK to switch off their old copper network – beating KCOM<\/a>, Virgin Media<\/a> and Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) to the punch.<\/p>\n

The operator is currently investing \u00a394m to support their “Gigabit Island Project<\/em>” to rollout a new Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (FTTP<\/a>) broadband network, which aims to cover around 78,000 homes and businesses – roughly 96% of all premises on the island – by the end of 2023 (they had completed 40,000 in July 2022 and expect to reach 60,000 by the end of this year).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Infracapital, which also owns or has stakes in Gigaclear<\/a>, Neos Networks<\/a>, Fibrus<\/a> and Ogi<\/a>, is backing WightFibre<\/a>.<\/div>\n

However, it’s easy to forget that, prior to all this, the operator was serving a smaller number of premises via their older Hybrid Fibre Coax<\/strong> (HFC) based cable network, which used a mix of coaxial copper and optical fibre lines via the DOCSIS<\/a> standard to deliver ultrafast broadband speeds. But rather than upgrade HFC to DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1, much like Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) did, they instead opted to go right to FTTP<\/a> and expand their coverage.<\/p>\n

The good is that the final few cable customers on their old network were upgraded to full fibre earlier this year. Over the summer the last few phone-only customers were also upgraded, allowing their copper network to finally be decommissioned.<\/p>\n

John Irvine, CEO of WightFibre<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Our big copper switch-off was a major undertaking. For most customers the migration to full-fibre was seamless \u2013 their existing phones and analogue devices are supported on the new network with the notable exception of rotary dial telephones \u2013 thankfully there were only a few of those.<\/p>\n

A small number of customers with very old alarm systems did need to upgrade their alarm systems as these are incompatible with full-fibre. With business customers this extended to some older dial-up credit card machines and fax machines. In many case WightFibre<\/a> helped with these changes to persuade customers to upgrade.<\/p>\n

Overall the process ran fairly smoothly. Our customers love the new network, the faster speeds, and the much-improved reliability.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

By comparison, it’s expected to take Openreach<\/a> until around the mid-2030s before they can completely switch off their physical copper line network (not to be confused with the PSTN phone switch-off in 2025), but even then it’s possible that some extremely remote areas might not be ready.<\/p>\n

As for Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2), they expect to have completed their upgrade from HFC to full fibre by around 2028. But it remains unclear whether they will have been able to migrate all of their associated customers by that point – operators usually aim to complete this phase after the new network has gone live.<\/p>\n

Finally, there’s KCOM<\/a>’s old twisted-pair copper network in Hull. The final migration plan for that looks set to start this month and won’t take long to complete (here<\/a>). We’re expecting to hear more about this, as well as on KCOM<\/a>’s future FTTP<\/a> expansion plans, in the very near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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