CityFibre’s joint venture with Sky and TalkTalk on Thursday completed phase one of its fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) project in the city of York.
The first phase of the deployment saw the joint venture partners establish the network’s design principles, engineering processes, as well as work out the economics of its deployment. The joint venture will now move onto phase two, which will focus on optimal FTTP deployment methods in a bid to accelerate a rollout at scale to thousands of premises.
"We are really pleased with what we have accomplished so far. As a team, Sky, TalkTalk and CityFibre have validated a network design for true ultra-fast fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) for residents and fibre-to-the-premises for business users," said Greg Mesch, CEO of CityFibre, in a statement.
Ci tyFibre said the venture is on track for Sky and TalkTalk to launch services later this year.
"Without the bottlenecks that exist in traditional networks, an ultra-fast fibre infrastructure will future-proof a city, offering superior quality of service and higher speeds as demand for bandwidth increases," Mesch said.
Set up in April 2014, CityFibre’s York joint venture with Sky and TalkTalk aims to offer gigabit broadband speeds via infrastructure that is wholly independent from that operated by BT Openreach. As well as the York JV, CityFibre is also involved in fibre projects in other major UK cities, including Aberdeen, Coventry, Edinburgh, and Peterborough.
Earlier this week, CityFibre reported revenue of £3.84 million for 2014, but its loss widened to £7.03 million from £6.29 million in 2013.
