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Announcements => News Articles => Topic started by: Bowdon on April 12, 2018, 02:31:12 PM
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https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/04/inca-claim-alternative-uk-fttp-networks-reach-1-million-premises.html (https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/04/inca-claim-alternative-uk-fttp-networks-reach-1-million-premises.html)
A new report created jointly by the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA), UKWISPA and Point Topic has estimated that alternative network ISPs had expanded the reach of FTTP/H/B based “full fibre” ultrafast broadband networks to 998,500 premises at the end of 2017.
On top of that INCA predicts that, come 2025, the number of premises passed via full fibre infrastructure supplied by altnets could rise to cover “nearly” 14.25 million homes and business (roughly 50% of the UK’s population), although they wisely note that this “may include some double counting from overbuild” (the overbuild situation is currently a significant unknown). INCA also expects this to include around 4.8 million live connections.
The report further forecasts that an estimated 1.92 million premises will have the ability to order altnet based fixed network “high-speed broadband” services by the end of 2019, with an estimated 554,700 subscribers connected. At present it’s suggested that altnets currently account for 207,500 live connections on fixed networks and an estimated 100,500 on Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) infrastructure in the UK
Seems like an interesting report. It's good to see the altnets pushing forward like this.