A new joint study by the Quality of Life Foundation and CityFibre, the UK’s largest independent Full Fibre platform, has revealed the growing importance of onli.
| 27 May 2021
The rapid rise of fibre networks across the UK is sparking huge new associated opportunity for the ISP community and in a clear indication of this trend, Giganet has expanded its partnership with infrastructure provider CityFibre .
The move will see the ISP extend its full-fibre home broadband services to 22 additional locations across the South of England. This meaning it now provides full-fibre broadband across 27 of CityFibre’s Gigabit Cities addressing 1.8 UK homes in places including Cambridge, Cheltenham and Norwich.
The expansion comes six months after Giganet’s initial commitment to offer full-fibre services in Portsmouth over CityFibre’s network. Giganet says that strong customer demand coupled with high customer satisfaction rates due to the superior speed and reliability of full-fibre broadband has enabled it to expand rapidly onto more of CityFibre’s networks across the South of England. Rollouts for Swindon, Reading, Plymouth, Crawl
| 19 May 2021
Former altnet turned third national digital infrastructure platform, CityFibre, has revealed its second north of England deployment in a matter of days by following up a rollout in Preston with the commencement of digging in Middlesbrough.
Starting with the Brambles Farm and Thorntree areas, CityFibre has launched a £42 million town-wide programme to bring to bring full-fibre connectivity within reach of almost every home and business of the Teesside town. The build out is being delivered by Map Group (UK) which says it will use a range of construction methods while working in close partnership with Middlesbrough Council and local communities.