Thanks for the feedback, this has now been updated. (We did originally qualify it as “bits” in the text to avoid ambiguity.)

As for more details, I would expect there to be further announcements and reports as the project progresses. Future articles will take the opportunity to address some of the common questions arising.

I visited one project where build is just about to start in a rural town. They are putting in FTTH to 4000 signed up subscribers and passing approx 12000 more during a 120 day period. We should be doing the same to similar timescales in the UK. The expertise is available to do this and has been for some years.

Doing small scale projects might seem a good idea but it is an expensive route to the end game, especially when the hard evidence about the benefits of FTTH are well-documented. It is time the UK government, RDAs, consultants etc realised we need big build FTTH, not scaled, demo projects. We are already such a long way behind so many other countries with this.

Good on MDDA and Geo but raise the bar a bit, guys!

And please can we have accurate reporting (it’s Mbps not MBps) and more details – what backhaul is in the network? Are the user connections contended or dedicated? What technology is being used in the active and passive infrastructure? etc. Thanks!

I don’t know the details, but I assume that GEO is only doing civils??? The important bit is when the actual network equipment (xPON, GPON to be specific) is dimensioned to provide services. Or… it could be active Ethernet (which I doubt).