CityFibre
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Utility Warehouse (UW) has signed a partnership with CityFibre, the UK’s second largest full fibre network, to improve the broadband services it provides to its customers. -
CityFibre has passed three million premises as it looks to reach up to a third of the UK.
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Sylwia Kechiche, principal industry analyst at Ookla shares her advice for the UK’s AltNet community.
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it is "unlikely" that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) approve a Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) takeover of CityFibre according to Jerry Dellis, equity analyst at Jefferies Equity Research.
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The owner of four of the UK’s smaller fibre operators are merging their operations in the face of rising competition.
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CityFibre has completed a trial of 2Gbps residential services in York with its launch partner Vodafone.
Forthcoming events
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DigitalBridge is selling one of its recent acquisitions after less than three years, to Antin Infrastructure, which has stakes in CityFibre and Eurofiber.
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CityFibre, which raised £4.9 billion in debt last month, has increased the speed of its planned direct fibre network to 10Gbps, and possibly 25Gbps.
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UK operator CityFibre has enough money to connect eight million homes to fibre, the company said after raising £4.9 billion debt.
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Openreach, the last mile fibre and copper operation owned by BT, has made Jenni Macfarlane its service delivery director for Scotland.
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As the UK fibre market becomes more crowded, CityFibre’s plan to bring full fibre connectivity within reach of eight million homes by 2025 remains on track. The group’s chief operating officer, Simon Holden, discusses the continued pace of the rollout, foreign investment and why closing the digital divide has always been a priority.
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CityFibre shareholder Mubadala Investment Company has committed a further £300m in equity to support its participation in Building Digital UK’s (BDUK) ‘Project Gigabit’ rural programme.
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TalkTalk has promoted Ruth Kennedy to be head of sales at its wholesale division. At the same time Richard Thompson, former managing director of wholesale, has left the company.
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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today!
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Colt Technology Services has expanded the reach of its UK metro network in eight cities across the country – Leeds, Bristol, Slough, Bracknell, Reading, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh and Glasgow.
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CityFibre has teamed with Ciena to successfully deploy its first 800GBpbs backbone wavelength that will reach up to eight million homes in the UK.
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Vodafone is claiming that a new deal with CityFibre will make it the biggest full fibre provider in the UK.
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Across the UK, local ventures – some funded by private equity, others by the community – are in a race with BT’s Openreach unit to connect rural homes to full fibre broadband. by Alan Burkitt-Gray
