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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: Bowdon on November 09, 2017, 10:59:18 AM
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https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/11/vodafone-cityfibre-target-gigabit-broadband-5-million-uk-premises.html (https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2017/11/vodafone-cityfibre-target-gigabit-broadband-5-million-uk-premises.html)
In a major development Cityfibre and ISP Vodafone have this morning announced a new “long-term strategic partnership” that will bring Gigabit-capable “full fibre” (FTTH) broadband to “up to” 5 million homes and businesses across the United Kingdom by 2025, with the rollout starting by mid-2018.
The development follows Cityfibre’s announcement in July 2017 (here), which saw the company raise a further £201.8 million in private investment to help support the construction of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) broadband network for 5 to 10 UK towns and cities. At the time no related cities or ISP partnerships were named.
At the same time Vodafone has been repeatedly hinting that they too have been exploring the potential for a joint investment on a “large-scale” FTTH/P build in the UK, although until today nearly all of the talk that surrounded this has centred on the possibility of a partnership with Openreach (here). Instead Vodafone appears to have gone in the other direction and teamed-up with Cityfibre.
I think its good that there is talk of other networks appearing on the scene. It kind of gives us a hint that the next generation of Internet will be built on multi networks as 'the normal' way, rather than most of us being on one (or two with VM) network.