British full fibre infrastructure operator CityFibre has launched what it claims is the UK’s first wholesale 2.5Gbps symmetrical consumer broadband product. According to CityFibre, the new wholesale offering is being made available to its ISP partners on a rolling basis, starting in the operator’s ‘most mature’ XGS-PON deployment areas. It says it expects the 2.5Gbps wholesale product to be available at all premises served by its ‘rapidly expanding’ XGS-PON platform ‘in the coming months’.
CityFibre notes that by the end of 2023 it aims to have deployed its XGS-PON equipment into over 90% of its fibre exchanges with the new 2.5Gbps product becoming available to around 20% of its ready for service footprint – which currently stands at 2.5 million premises.
Meanwhile, multi-gig speeds will also reportedly be made available for premises where CityFibre’s network is yet to be upgraded to XGS-PON. According to the operator such a development will be achieved via a 2Gbps/1Gbps asymmetric GPON product that it plans to launch in the coming months. These services will ultimately be migrated to the XGS-PON platform when available.