H20 Networks making Bournemouth UK's first Fibrecity

bingham67 · 25 Sep 2008 at 16:00

Work will start next month on the UK's first Fibrecity in Bournemouth which will see connectivity speeds of 100 Mbps to all homes and businesses in the area. A Fibrecity deployment in Dundee will follow early in 2009, with other towns and cities announced in due course.

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/news/EkkkFFFpuEGLsGbwlt.html

http://www.h2onetworksdarkfibre.com/

Anyone from Bournemouth signed up to it i heard they was sending out letters be interested to hear thoughts on service.

Happy · 25 Sep 2008 at 16:03

Sound good, we're living in the stoneage for broadband speeds in the U.K

FrenchTart · 25 Sep 2008 at 16:05

Happy said:
Sound good, we're living in the stoneage for broadband speeds in the U.K

Hardly the stone age - just look at the US.

I agree that we need to get fibre up and running in order to maintain any sort of modern internet access for the majority of the population though.

Kerplunk · 25 Sep 2008 at 23:23

Yeaaaa, bring it on!

malef!c · 25 Sep 2008 at 23:40

Hopefully this may give companies like Virgin a kick up the ar*e.
They have sat back for a while on their laurels so with these guys using tunnels already in place, VM will be missing big chunks of new estates etc that they 'cannot afford' to cable up.

Hope these guys all the best!

Ignition · 26 Sep 2008 at 00:10

Aekeron said:
Hardly the stone age - just look at the US.

What about the US?

Ah right.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210603269

Broadband fiber subscribers up to 3.76 million in U.S.
Fiber to the home topology now passes 13.825 million homes

Trifid · 26 Sep 2008 at 07:17

Ignition said:
What about the US?

Ah right.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210603269

While they are better in some areas (high density areas) where it is cost effective to supply FTTH, they are worse in the amount of users who only have access to 56k.

bingham67 · 16 Oct 2008 at 18:04

Update on this

ISPreview.co.uk has spotted the news that the fibre rollout for the H2O Fibre to the Home service has started in Bournemouth, specifically the BH10 and BH11 postcode areas.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3745-100mbps-broadband-rollout-starts.html

Wonder what pricing will be.

sja360 · 16 Oct 2008 at 22:50

probably around £60+ i'd imagine, they wont be letting this service go cheap.
i do wonder what the upload is like and also any limits or traffic management.
Dundee

shame, im only 15 miles out