[YLUG] Voting for BT to put fibre broadband in York

[Peter Hawkins]

The City Council Scheme is being managed by FibreCity which is part of H2O
Networks Limited who have a 'revolutionary' way of putting fibre optic
cables into sewers. (I don't think it involves tying the fibres to the tails
of rats !!). The actual installation was sub-contracted to Fujitsu who then
sub-contracted to trench diggers.

As John said, the financing of the project is being justified by the Council
on the basis of (a) the money it will save in renting individual data
circuits into schools, libraries and other council premises and (b) the
increased efficiency from having truly high speed data transfer between
these premises and to the wider internet.

There has been talk of local businesses having the opportunity to link into
it but I think this may be somewhere in the future. I'm not sure about
residential properties but it does go right past my house on its way to
Poppleton Ousebank School and there is a footway box within a foot of my
boundary so I can hope can't I.

FibreCity had indicated that they wanted to do a presentation to the Clifton
Moor Business Association earlier this year but then they changed their mind
about that.

Your exchange is MYMSG Mike -
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/MYMSG

Peter Hawkins

-----Original Message-----
From: york-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk [mailto:york-bounces at lists.lug.org.uk]
On Behalf Of john halewood
Sent: 10 October 2010 17:22
To: york at lists.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [YLUG] Voting for BT to put fibre broadband in York

On 10 October 2010 17:05, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I did not know that - so I learned something today - I am
> connected to Melrosegate so I guess the vote in York will be split
> across several exchanges. I also don't know how the council-supported
> big rollout of the fibre infrastructure that has been going on for the
> past year or so links to this if at all?  All over the place there
> have been trenches dug with purple plastic ducts which I was told by
> one of the guys working on that as I was walking in one day is part of
> the fibre infrastructure being installed across York.
>
> Anyone know any more about this?

The council fibre rollout is to link up all the various council sites
(about 100), including libraries and schools as well as offices.
Although the link is council only, it means that the infrastructure is
already in place so any third party will have to do much less leg work
(and incur much lower costs) and otherwise. Once you've got fibre on
the long haul filling in the last mile becomes a lot cheaper. It also
means that there's now fibre links to the surrounding villages in the
York area.

cheers
john

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