mark collins - director of strategy cityfibre
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Plugging Britain's “Fibre Gap”Competitive Investment in the UK’s Communications InfrastructureINCA Building Gigabit Britain Conference – October 2016
Fibre coverage to premises in OECD nations – end 2015
Fibre coverage to premises in OECD nations – end 2015
UK FTTP = 2%Spain FTTP = 62%
Ofcom’s Strategic Direction:
1. A strategic shift to large scale investment in more fibre
2. To reduce the UK’s dependency on Openreach
3. To achieve full competition between three or more networks for 40% of premises…
“The UK will be a world leader in the availability and capability of its digital networks”
“The best driver for investment and innovation is network based competition”
Building the UK’s Fibre Future
150km of network built in 9 month window
Connects 324 public sector sites, including 137 schools
Able to serve 7,000 businesses today
Potential to serve 17,000 businesses
Designed for expansion to fibre to the home (FTTH)
Fibre infrastructure for 4G and 5G mobile services
OPEN ACCESS SHARED FIBRE INFRASTRUCTURE
Builder of Gigabit Cities• 40 cities today
• Many more planned
• Fibre platform for economic growth• Northern Powerhouse, Midlands
South West
• Scotland and Wales
• Gigabit speed broadband for the whole community
Businesses Cell Towers Public Sector Homes Data Centres
Who Benefits?
Customers in Hull had to suffer with a poor mobile network experience for far too long. They can now enjoy a fast and reliable network in the city.
Bryn Jones, CTO
CityFibre’s dark fibre connectivity supported a 380%
increase in network traffic in Hull, at the point of ‘switch on’.
With our customers’ data usage rising all the time, a flexible and cost effective backhaul capacity solution is hugely important so that we can keep giving a world-leading mobile experience.
Fotis Karonis, CTO
Enabling 4G & 5GNetwork Evolution
Proving FTTH on a shared infrastructure
Successful deployment of Gigabit FTTH Broadband in York: FTTH reference architecture using
CityFibre’s core fibre network Sub £500 per premise passed
Capex Competitive localised ISP
marketing Penetration >15% and
growing steadily
Acceleration of growth2013 2014
2016
Secondary placingIPO
2015
£90m Acquisition£180m Financing
Today – 40 cities
HULL
Britain Must be Ambitious:We must plug the “Fibre Gap”
Competition to Openreach is the key
A third, shared FTTP infrastructure will scale to many towns and cities throughout the UK
Sparking innovation and powering our digital economy
