City fibre

[Derek1810]

Is city fibre something sky broadband can use to increase our speed and connection to wi if?

[GD1]

@Derek1810  No, sky only use the Openreach network.

[cookiemonsteruk]

@Derek1810 

No, sky use openreach infrastructure

Could you post your hub stats to see what speed you are getting

https://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Broadband/How-to-find-your-Sky-Broadband-router-stats/m-p/2855717#M1014...

And enter your full postal address below and post the table after removing your address from the image to see what is available

https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/#/ADSL/AddressHome 

[TimmyBGood]

@Derek1810 

CityFibre are an altnet company laying full fibre infrastructure which is effectively in competition with the BT Wholesale/Openreach national distribution.  I believe TalkTalk, Vodafone and Zen currently have distribution over CityFibre as well as Openreach, but so far neither Sky or BT has chosen to do so.

[Mr+Slant]

Sky trialled a FTTP service using CityFibre infrastructure in York back around 2014 (branded as UFO - ultra fibre optic) and pulled out of the trial a couple of years later. I think its safe to assume Sky won't be using CityFibre infrastructure in the next few years.

[Mini+Mo]

I do wish Sky would join  up with City Fibre, as they are starting to lay fibre here,whereas BT Wholesale/Openreach have said we are not in their current fibre rollout plan for a more few years.

[TimmyBGood]

@Mini+Mo 

I'd suggest there's naturally some reluctance on the part of ISPs of the scale of Sky and BT to use such backhaul, because the altnet providers are typically still in a venture capital startup stage and don't yet have viable long term finances.  It's quite likely that not all of them will survive, and that would be a real problem for customer provision: unlike the failure of the rival electricity providers there's no regulated system to keep broadband going when an ISP or network provider goes bust.

UK ‘altnets’ risk digging themselves into a hole 

[Mini+Mo]

@TimmyBGoodI think City Fibre is a safer bet, than a lot of the smaller altnet providers who I predict some will go into administration or bought out by the bigger altnet providers in 2023..