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.
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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.
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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
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UK-based full fibre operator CityFibre has hired someone from the government as its chief marketing officer.
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UK-based infrastructure company CityFibre has exceeded its plans, leaked in May, to raise £1 billion.
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Neos Networks and CityFibre are ramping up their Ethernet network expansion programme, adding nine urban areas.
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CityFibre is reportedly closing in on sale a £1 billion stake in its business, to help fund an expansion of its fibre rollout plans.
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The number of UK households without an internet connection has almost halved in the year since the pandemic began.
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Fibre operators in the UK have welcomed today’s statement by the telecoms regulator, Ofcom, on its plans for the fixed wholesale market.
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CityFibre and Virtual1 have announced a collaborative partnership to serve the UK connectivity community with full fibre business services.
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UK telecoms group Daisy has demerged its cloud business into a separate company, with investment from private equity fund Inflexion.
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European telco euNetworks has bought a Manchester fibre network from its UK rival Gamma Telecom.
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UK independent telco TalkTalk is set to be taken over by a hedge fund and a private equity firm for £1.1 billion.
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After four years with Sunrise in Switzerland, Olaf Swantee is now heading a company with an ambitious target to fibre up London. Alan Burkitt-Gray asks him about his vision
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UK digital infrastructure provider CityFibre has won a multi-million-pound contract by Three to connect an additional 1,300 mobile masts across 59 towns and cities.
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Commsworld has confirmed its completion of a £10 million, UK-wide Optical Core Network built on more than 2,000km of dark fibre leased from CityFibre and Zayo.
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CityFibre has announced the creation of “up to 10,000” new jobs over the next 36 months, as Britain upgrades to full fibre infrastructure as part of the government’s “gigabit connectivity by 2025” pledge.
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Shareholders have given the green light for CityFibre to acquire network builder FibreNation from Talk Talk Group, paving the way for a roll out plan that will reach up to eight million premises and create up to 7,000 construction jobs.
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Mobile network operator Three is to leverage CityFibre’s nationwide full fibre infrastructure to deliver the country’s “fastest 5G network”
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CityFibre has confirmed the acquisition of FibreNation from TalkTalk Group for £200 million.
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CityFibre is attempting to restructure its exclusive partnership agreement with that gives Vodafone exclusive rights to sell broadband on its first million full-fibre lines.
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UK alternative provider of wholesale full fibre infrastructure CityFibre has today announced that it has made its full fibre products available to Digital Wholesale Solutions (DWS) in 27 cities.
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CityFibre, the UK’s alternative provider of wholesale full fibre infrastructure, is set to undertake an industry-wide consultation on the role of alternative full fibre infrastructure builders in helping to switch-over customers from legacy copper networks.
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Openreach, the UK’s wholesale last-mile company, says it will extend all-fibre broadband to 36 new locations, with work due to start over the next 12 months.
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Wholesale carrier CityFibre’s Gigabit City programme has begun connecting a further million UK homes and businesses to full fibre.
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Openreach, BT’s wholesale last-mile subsidiary, has expanded its targets for directly connected fibre to 15 million UK buildings by the mid-2020s.
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UK fixed operator TalkTalk is trying to raise £1 billion to build a fibre network connecting up to three million homes, according to unconfirmed reports.