{"id":6832,"date":"2014-05-23T11:06:15","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T10:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2014-05-23T11:06:15","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T10:06:15","slug":"tibus-seeks-build-ultrafast-10gbps-fibre-optic-network-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/05\/tibus-seeks-build-ultrafast-10gbps-fibre-optic-network-belfast.html","title":{"rendered":"Tibus Seeks to Build Ultrafast 10Gbps Fibre Optic Network in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses in the city of Belfast (Northern Ireland) could soon benefit after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tibus.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tibus<\/a> (The Internet Business Ltd) revealed that it was planning to make use of the UK Government&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Super-Connected Cities<\/em>&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.connectionvouchers.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">Connection Voucher <\/a>Scheme in order to roll-out a new fibre optic network in the area.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Connection Voucher scheme offers grants worth between <strong>\u00a3200 &#8211; \u00a33,000 +vat<\/strong> to individual businesses (i.e. any SME of up to 249 employees with a turnover no greater than \u00a340 million per annum) across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/12\/broadband-connection-voucher-scheme-goes-live-first-uk-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\">22 of the UK\u2019s cities<\/a>, which is designed to help related firms get connected to a superfast broadband connection of 30Mbps or faster.<\/p>\n<p>However several vouchers can also be aggregated in order to deliver a general infrastructure improvement and it appears as though Tibus intends to leverage this approach in order to deploy its own network into specific areas of <strong>central Belfast<\/strong>, before later expanding into the rest of the city and suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>The plan was revealed as part of a <a href=\"http:\/\/stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk\/binaries\/consultations\/tibus\/summary\/TIBUS.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">formal proposal<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> to grant <strong>Code Powers<\/strong> to Tibus, which would make it easier for them to conduct street works (dig up pavements, roads etc.). &#8220;<em>[Tibus] believes that, without the delivery of its proposed level of connectivity and managed services, several tenants will leave the Cathedral Quarter area of Belfast, resulting in the loss of employment and a halt to future inward investment in the area<\/em>,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s consultation.<\/p>\n<p>The consultation will remain open until <strong>23rd June<\/strong> and is unlikely to be opposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses in the city of Belfast (Northern Ireland) could soon benefit after Tibus (The Internet Business Ltd) revealed that it was planning to make use of the UK Government&#8217;s &#8220;Super-Connected Cities&#8221; Connection Voucher Scheme in order to roll-out a new fibre optic network in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[472,52,414,36],"class_list":["post-6832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-business","tag-fibre-optic","tag-northern-ireland","tag-ofcom-regulation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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