Lightwave Staff
Marsh Mills Plymouth 5 June 2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
UK service providers Sky and TalkTalk and fiber to the home (FTTH) infrastructure company CityFibre say they will create a new company that will deliver 1-Gbps broadband services in the City of York, as well as two other locations that they will reveal later.
The joint venture will leverage CityFibre’s existing metro fiber infrastructure in York and systems from Fujitsu (see“CityFibre, Fujitsu form UK FTTH engineering alliance”). Once FTTH extensions are in place, Sky and TalkTalk will retail competing broadband services over the fiber-optic network. The partners expect to begin connecting customers to the FTTH network in 2015.