Full Fibre

CityFibre has signed a blanket wayleave agreement with Crawley Borough Council to boost its £23m rollout of a town-wide full fibre network.

ITS’ new six-mile full fibre network in Scunthorpe has gone live providing hundreds of local businesses with high-speed connectivity.

Openreach has made an offer to its wholesale Communications Providers, guaranteeing long-term price certainty on its FTTP technology for up to 10 years.

TalkTalk is ramping up its full fibre programme, offering residents in Derby 100% full fibre directly into the home in conjunction with CityFibre and Openreach.

In its Digging up Britain 2021 report, LSBUD found that the UK telecoms industry has increased its digging work 24% from last year, spurred on by the national fibre rollout.

UK altnets have boosted their fibre coverage by 110% in the past year, up from 50% in 2020, to cover over 2.5m premises according to a report commissioned by the Independent Network Co-operative Association (INCA).

As part of Openreach’s nationwide five-year full fibre upgrade in Scotland, the Forth Road Bridge is being kitted out with a 3km stretch of glass fibre to bring ultrafast connectivity to the town of South Queensferry.

TalkTalk has supported recommendations made by the Gigabit Take-Up Advisory Group (GigaTAG) in its latest report which warns the government that a lack of Gigabit awareness could stand in the way of customer and business uptake.