Tag: high-speed internet expansion

  • Community Fibre hits 400K milestone in fibre subscriptions

    Community Fibre hits 400K milestone in fibre subscriptions

    The new take-up milestone is said to make Community Fibre the number one major altnet provider in the UK in terms of customer penetration.

    400,000 homes and businesses connected across the capital from a footprint of 1.3 million properties means a penetration rate of 30.7%. Speed options range from its 35 Mbps social tariff through to 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps (2,500 Mbps and 5000 Mbps) utilising XGS-PON.

    Community Fibre operates another much smaller footprint in Surrey and Sussex that was previously Box Broadband and the full fibre there is currently GPON to maximum speeds are 1 Gbps.

    Competition in London is increasing, especially now that Openreach is rolling out to a number of new areas in the capital. The strategy Community Fibre has used on engaging with communities via for example providing free broadband for 720 community spaces assuming it continues should in theory help in the face of increased competition, e.g. when people see the service working reliably in a community space they will be more confident to take the service in their own home or flat. ThinkBroadband