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Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

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Originally Posted by FibrecityBmouth (Post 34765925)

Hi Broadbandings,

As far as I am aware the negotiations are still ongoing at an advanced stage and should be completed shortly.

Obviously at my level I am not informed of every detail and outcome so I may only find out a few days before everyone else! To be honest with you, the information (below) from the press release is pretty much what I have been told so far:

The firm is in a very strong position and is in final negotiations and positive discussions with a number of key content providers and companies that will provide next generation services including IPTV, delivering a complete range of channels including interactive gaming.

Regards

Paul

No disrespect, Paul, but that's what you said nearly five months ago on your first post (#71 in this this thread)

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Originally Posted by FibrecityBmouth (Post 34673071)

Hi Guys

My name is Paul and I am currently working for Fibrecity. I am currently the data controller for Fibrecity Bournemouth.

Things are going well so far and we are aiming to get 20% of Bournemouth signed up by Christmas. Some initial work has started in the BH10 and BH11 postcodes in Bournemouth and we will shortly be announcing the first service provider to use our connection. The provider is in place but as everything is still not finalised we are not at liberty to announce this at this time.

From the calls and emails we have recieved we can see that a number of people have questions regarding the work we are doing so I thought I would post here and see if I can get some answers to any questions or concerns you may have (especially those of you in Bournemouth who have not yet signed up!!).

I previously worked for Virgin Media BBI tech support based in the Albert Dock for 2 years and during that time have leeched on Cable Forum to see what was happening and have often found out many useful things while browsing the forums. Indeed that was how I cam across this thread.

So if you guys have any questions please feel free to post them and I will do my best to get the answers for you.

Thanks in advance,

Paul

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Hi foreverwar,

Fair comment and I am sorry I cannot give everyone more to go on, however I can only tell you what I am told myself. Obviously we as a company would like this to have been sorted a lot sooner but unfortunately things are not always as simple as we would like them to be.

As I said previously as soon as I have been given concrete information I will make sure to post it, until that time I can only update you on the progress as much as I myself am updated.

Hopefully because the first homes have been connected and now need to be made 'live' this will push negotiations forward to a conclusion.

As I said in an earlier post unfortunately the answers I can post may not always be the ones people are looking for but I will do my best.

Regards

Paul

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

I guess the provider could be C4L as they have got a Gigabit backbone to Bournemouth.

http://www.c4l.co.uk/colocation/sout...ournemouth.php

I have seen the fibrecity vans out and about in the "BH7 7" region (Littledown estate in particular) and I know the fibre has actually been installed there but haven't seen any premises which have been connected yet.

I live a bit further down the road in the "BH7 6" (Boscombe East) region and cant wait to be connected, any news on when work will commence here?

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Must be C4L because i found this statement:

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C4L Preps 100Gbps of Connectivity for Bournemouth

We have plans to increase this to 800 Gbps when required (enough to run 400,000 homes on 100Mbps 50:1 ratio) which will significantly increase connectivity in Bournemouth and the local area.

The core of this service will be at our Bournemouth data centre which will be launched later in the year. Here we are running the connectivity down to enable the most cost effective line solutions in time for the release of pricing.

Circuits will be available back to London for any ISPâ€™s wishing to use their own bandwidth/networks. We will also be offering 100Mbps, 1000Mbps and 10GigE 1:1 to premises for Business. More details will be provided soon."

from http://www.ispreview.co.uk/news/EkEEkZkuAFYrIyrrPe.html

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

C4L are not a residential provider and have no interest in becoming one. Notice that the only circuits they mention are business.

From your quote:

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Circuits will be available back to London for any ISP’s wishing to use their own bandwidth/networks. We will also be offering 100Mbps, 1000Mbps and 10GigE 1:1 to premises for Business. More details will be provided soon.

C4L will according to that offer backhaul to other ISPs but their only FTTP service will be business leased circuits.

The reference to homes was I think an example, plus it's a nice big number, 400,000 homes ;)

EDIT: I actually suspect that C4L installed the backhaul to use i3's dark fibre for those nice profitable business services, not as part of the FibreCity residential PON deployment. I'll see if the guy I used to know at C4L is still there and chat with him.

Nice find on the story :)

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

if the ISP's are Sky or Be* you guys in Bournemouth are so lucky!

Anyone on here one of the lucky 50?

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Right now, the 50Mb and above services are not subject to traffic management, just fyi :)

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

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Originally Posted by C_Agent (Post 34769936)

Right now, the 50Mb and above services are not subject to traffic management, just fyi :)

Erm ok, not entirely sure of relevance to Bournemouth's FTTP but there we go :)

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Originally Posted by *sloman* (Post 34767734)

if the ISP's are Sky or Be* you guys in Bournemouth are so lucky!

Anyone on here one of the lucky 50?

Still no ISP.

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Its gone a bit quiet recently.

Is there anyone out there that has been connected up yet that can give us some info?

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Depends how you define "connected"

There are, I'm sure, people who have a cable installed.

But there's no ISP to connect to.

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Hi Guys,

Sorry for the lack of contact lately, have been in Bournemouth recently following up a few things.

@lloydio - We have not yet announced the service providers using the connection at the moment, as soon as I am able to do this I will be sure to post on here for everyone.

@Pierre - There are a number of homes installed as you have mentioned and we should be starting the roll-out in earnest in around 2-3 weeks.

I will post any information that I can as soon as guys.

Regards

Paul

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

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Originally Posted by foreverwar (Post 34793373)

Anybody want to buy a bridge? ;)

That image links to a nice looking webpage...

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Please remember this is a family site with lots of vulnerable members. :dozey:

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Which postcodes are as of now planned and are there any roll out dates for other ones?

Also which streets/ postcodes are currently as of now live.

Re: 100mbps for Bournemouth

Have they got an ISP yet ????