{"id":8163,"date":"2014-11-26T08:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T08:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=8163"},"modified":"2014-11-26T08:31:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T08:31:04","slug":"spectrum-internet-builds-community-fttp-broadband-shirenewton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/11\/spectrum-internet-builds-community-fttp-broadband-shirenewton.html","title":{"rendered":"Spectrum Internet Builds Community FTTP Broadband in Shirenewton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of a well sized rural village in Monmouthshire (Wales) called Shirenewton could soon be able to benefit from a superfast fibre optic connection via Fibre-to-the-Premises (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) technology, which is being rolled out by Cardiff-based ISP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spectrum-internet.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">Spectrum Internet<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The village, which interestingly is also listed for inclusion under the wider <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superfast-wales.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #227ab4;\">Superfast Cymru<\/span><\/a> project with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> after September 2015 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/wales-uk-confirm-autumn-2015-fibre-broadband-rollout-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), has recently seen some fresh activity via contractors for Spectrum Internet moving in with 25mm wide <strong>micro-trenching<\/strong> equipment to lay new fibre optic cables.<\/p>\n<p>Officially the ISP isn&#8217;t yet ready to tell us much about the development, although they appear to be doing some interesting \/ similar things with several communities in Wales and they aren&#8217;t worried about the rival BDUK plans because their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> approach is generally superior to the slower hybrid-fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a>) solution that dominates the BDUK scheme (unless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> suddenly decides to stick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a> into Shirenewton as well).<\/p>\n<p>Separately it also appears as if much of the ISPs FTTP work is taking place in areas that suffer from a lot of nasty <strong>Exchange Only Lines<\/strong> (EOL). Meanwhile a quick check of Spectrum&#8217;s website reveals that two separate sites have now been setup for related projects &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superfastmonmouthshire.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Fast Monmouthshire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.superfastgower.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Fast Gower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Monmouthshire site references a mix of 75Mbps capable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> and superfast wireless solutions for locations served by either the Wolvesnewton, Shirenewton or Tintern exchanges (aka &#8211; the <strong>BiGDiG<\/strong> area), such as Devauden and Penallt that may also be able to benefit from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/welshgov\" target=\"_blank\">Welsh Government<\/a>&#8217;s <strong>Access Broadband Cymru<\/strong> (ABC) grant funding for use in sub-2Mbps areas.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere the Gower site is more familiar because it covers some similar work that we&#8217;ve reported on before (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/06\/spectrum-internet-deploy-own-fibre-broadband-to-700-homes-in-rural-wales.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>), which has already benefitted Horton, Oxwich, Port Eynon, Llanrhidian, Middleton and Rhossili.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly the FTTP side to all this is something new and represents a big progression from Spectrum Internet&#8217;s prior <strong>Sub-Loop Unbundled<\/strong> (SLU) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttc\">FTTC<\/a> approach, although for now the ISP isn\u2019t yet willing to say precisely what they&#8217;re doing or have planned for the future, but we should know more soon.<\/p>\n<p>One other interesting aspect of all this is the growing tendency for alternative network (altnet) ISPs to shun rival <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/britishtelecom\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">BT<\/a> deployments through BDUK and instead go it alone, which is something that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/b4rn\" target=\"_blank\">B4RN<\/a> has also done in part(s) of <strong>Lancashire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of a well sized rural village in Monmouthshire (Wales) called Shirenewton could soon be able to benefit from a superfast fibre optic connection via Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology, which is being rolled out by Cardiff-based ISP Spectrum Internet.<\/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":[471,52,56,71],"class_list":["post-8163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-bduk","tag-fibre-optic","tag-fttp","tag-wales"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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