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[Bowdon]

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/02/isp-gigaclear-celebrate-15000-rural-uk-full-fibre-broadband-customer.html

Rural fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has today celebrated the connection of the 15,000th customer to their 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP/H) ultrafast broadband network, which now covers 60,000 homes and businesses across 20 counties of the United Kingdom (25% take-up).

The commercial operator has made a seemingly viable business case out of deploying FTTP/H networks into rural areas. On top of that they’ve also signed numerous state aid supported deployment contracts (mostly in the South West, Midlands and South East of England), with the aim being to cover 150,000 premises by the end of 2020.

Always good to see new fibre being pushed out. I just wish the fibre lines were being laid faster! Hire the workers and the diggers!

[niemand]

It's a pleasure seeing Gigaclear continue to progress.

They are, perhaps, the best guide to what a commercial operation has to do to make the business case work - their cheapest package, symmetrical 50Mb, is £41.30 a month.

A good reminder of reality for companies that actually have to pay to build their networks and that they should not be compared to community solutions.