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CityFibre and Fujitsu join forces to deliver pure fibre infrastructure throughout UK cities

CityFibre, one of the companies that is currently leading the fibre optic infrastructure market in the UK, and Fujitsu, the internationally-renowned information technology service provider, ended the month of April with the announcement that they will be teaming up to further the plans of CityFibre to implement advanced pure fibre infrastructures throughout the UK’s second-tier cities.

This is a deal that is reportedly worth an initial £50 million in terms of the estimated contract value for the Japanese company, and marks the second time that the two companies have worked together – Fujitsu constructed the 103k fibre optic network that CityFibre implemented around the historic city of York. The CEOs for the two companies, Greg Mesch (CityFibre) and Andy Stevenson (Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe) have already expressed their delight to be working with each other once again, and will be hoping that this becomes a regular, mutually beneficial partnership.

Under the terms of the deal, Fujitsu will be responsible for the planning, building and eventual operation of CityFibre’s carrier-grade infrastructure. As demonstrated with the work it assisted on in York, the company has a huge amount of experience and capability when it comes to working on big projects, although CityFibre is by no means inexperienced, having made a commitment to create new communications networks rather than renovating the old ones that have surpassed the point at which they were most effective. Nevertheless, Fujitsu’s involvement will surely boost the confidence of everyone else involved that this project can finally get off the ground and deliver everything that has been promised since its announcement. Once the work is completed, it is hoped that the infrastructure will reach over a million homes and 50,000 businesses across the country.

This deal has also highlighted the fact that the residents of smaller cities are not being forgotten as better communications systems are set up – the bigger companies like BT and Virgin are concentrating on getting cities like London and Manchester up to speed, so it is to CityFibre’s credit that smaller cities are still very much on the radar. In addition to this project, the company will also continue to work on its goal of providing staggeringly fast internet speeds of up to 1GB per second to 24,000 homes in the Bournemouth area by the end of the year.

A BROADBAND ACCESS FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN EUROPE

The current rise of broadband which has literally shrunk the globe will soon be an essential service as needed as gas and energy by people. If Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes proposal is anything to go by then this might as well be one ambitious broadband dream for the nations of Europe. Many a big groups and organizations have taken to this cause and many more than mere words are being pumped into this vision. The success of this plan will see every person in Europe having access to next generation broadband speed by 2013.

The bands to be offered under consideration right now are in the range of 900/1800 MHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.4 — 3.8 GHz band. With time however this will increase greatly seeing a mind boggling 800 MHz band to be had access to by the people in Europe by as early as the first month of 2013.

In spite of having the highest penetration of broadband in the world, high speed internet is still accessed by only one percent of the European homes. For this very purpose even the radio frequencies are going to be relocated making way for the faster broadband internet speeds. A copy of the plan has also been submitted to the leading political parties of Europe. Among them is also the EU council of ministers.