Project Gigabit future: UK FibreCos say yes to expansion, but with caveats
Mooted bundling of Project Gigabit mega-contracts gets firm ‘no’ from altnet INCA gathering, but most on board for programme extension. New Labour government urged to protect and evolve rural fibre build to reach final few per cent of rural premises, learn from ‘zany’ Scotland, or risk missing FTTP targets. And then there’s that Type C elephant (not) in the room, Openreach…
This article includes:
- Events: INCA: The New Political Climate
- Geographic: Cornwall; England; Northern Ireland; Scotland; UK; Wales
- Organisations: Building Digital UK; Cameron Barney Herbst Hilgenfeldt; CityFibre; County Broadband; INCA; Labour government, Netomnia/YouFibre; Openreach; Scottish government; Wildanet.
- People: Alex Blowers; Allison Kirkby; Charles Cameron; Helen Wylde-Archibald; Jeremy Chelot; Paul Thompson.
- Themes: Altnet; Broadband; Fibre; Politics; Project Gigabit; Rural broadband; social housing; subsidised fibre build; Type A contracts; Type B contracts; Type C contracts.
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