Connect to full fibre

[mandyb3]

Wildanet have recently installed full fibre in my road.  I live in a rural area in Cornwall and they are laying the fibre on behalf of Openreach.  How do I get connected to this?  Can I go through Sky as I am already a customer or do I have to go Wildanet which I would rather not?  I have Sky Fibre Max at the moment but it is a part-fibre connection.

[TimmyBGood]

@mandyb3 

In the UK, Sky doesn't currently use any network other than the national Openreach distribution. They have a carriage deal with CityFibre coming into effect later this year, but you will not be able to get a Sky Broadband subscription over Wildanet infrastructure.

To get connected on FTTP I suspect you'd deal directly with Wildanet as the ISP as well as the cable owner and operator: that's typically the case with smaller altnets.

[TimmyBGood]

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@mandyb3 wrote:

Wildanet have recently installed full fibre in my road.  I live in a rural area in Cornwall and they are laying the fibre on behalf of Openreach.  

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No, probably not. Altnets typically use their own venture capital to lay infrastructure that's effectively in competition with Openreach.

https://wildanet.com/latest-news/wildanet-secures-funding-from-the-cornwall-and-isles-of-scilly-inve... 

[Malarky861]

That is market domination? When one company dominates a market and I am forced to go with them that is not competition.