ISPs can now advertise true 1Gbps speeds with CityFibre
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CityFibre has introduced a new ‘True Gig’ 1.2Gbps wholesale broadband product. The move allows internet service provider (ISP) partners to offer advertised 1Gbps speed services throughout a footprint covering more than 3 million premises across the country.
The ‘True Gig’ service is designed to overcome the challenges experienced by ISPs when advertising ‘Gigabit speed’ broadband services to consumers. ISPs are prohibited from advertising a service as 1Gbps unless they can prove that 50% of their customers actually get 1Gbps on average at peak times. Due to the bandwidth overhead required for ISPs to run and monitor a service, a typical 1Gbps wholesale service must therefore be advertised to consumers at slower speeds, typically 900Mbps.
By increasing the wholesale speed to 1.2Gbps, CityFibre is enabling its ISP partners to promise a full 1Gbps service to their customers, provided that their own backhaul arrangements and in-premises equipment also support this. The new product is available to ISPs for the same price as CityFibre’s existing 1Gbps wholesale product.
The 1.2Gbps product will benefit from symmetrical download and upload speeds when served over CityFibre’s XGS-PON (10 Gigabit symmetrical passive optical network) network. Where its network is yet to be upgraded from GPON to XGS-PON, a variant with 1Gbps upload speeds is provided as an interim alternative. Both variants provide upload speeds over eight times faster than those available from Openreach’s fastest FTTP broadband service.
“As the builder of the UK’s largest independent full fibre network, CityFibre helped introduce the UK to the concept of the Gigabit, so it’s a privilege to be able to now launch a ‘True Gig’ service to our partners,” Dan Ramsay, the chief marketing officer at CityFibre, said. “This will give them the confidence to advertise their services as Gigabit Speed and will encourage even more people to join the full fibre revolution.”
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