Sky FTTP on City Fibre

[Floydianslip]

Sky FTTP broadband will soon be available on City Fibre, will it be symmetrical and cheaper?

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/08/isp-sky-broadband-uk-to-launch-cityfibre-based-fttp-pa...

[Chrisee]

@Floydianslip according to the Sky pres release https://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/sky-and-cityfibre-sign-partnership-to-bring-sky-full-fibre-br... the service wont launch until sometime in 2025 so far too early to know products or prices. Personally I wouldn't expect equivelant products will be cheaper but until Sky annouce prices your guess is as good as mine.

[peter-marlow+1966]

As far as I know you are asking  about two different  broadband  providers,  run an on line check to find out what speeds  are available  in your  area,  bit they both offer  fttp, sky use open reach  for there's  city fibre  I believe  install their own  infrastructure, don't  thing they will be combining 

[Chrisee]

@peter-marlow+1966 the announcement is Sky will be using both Openreach and City Fibre networks to deliver broadband from 2025 in much the same way Talk Talk and other isps already do. City Fibre sell wholesale access to ISPs in the same way as Openreach. 

The details are just what is in the press release but where a customer has City Fibre passing their home they will be able to order Ultrafast full fibre broadband using that network rather than say a slower Superfast service over Openreach copper network. City Fibre already pass 3.8million homes and are planning to pass many more including 1.3million as part of a government Project Gigabit which will be addresses judged to expensive to be part of the commercial fibre roll out.

Potentially the City Fibre network offers symmetrical speeds and speeds well over 1Gb/s if Sky want to offer those.

[Blueboy9]

Sky and TalkTalk today announce that they have joined forces with CityFibre to create a new company that will deliver ultra-fast broadband services in the City of York. The new joint venture company plans to build a state of the art, city-wide, pure fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network to deliver broadband speeds of 1 Gigabit (1000 Mbps) direct to tens of thousands of homes and businesses in York, offering customers better quality and value.

The new network will leverage CityFibre’s existing metro fibre infrastructure in the City. Once the ultra-fast network is in place, Sky and TalkTalk will retail competing broadband services over the new infrastructure, with the first York customers expected to be connected in 2015. 

to check out more check cityfibre website

[Chrisee]

@Blueboy9 that is a blast from the past as IIRC that annoucement was made around 2014. The York roll out was an experiment that went no where as Sky decided investing in networks wasn't going to be their thing.. For customers it was a mess which finally ended a  couple of years ago after the service had limped on with virtually no support from Sky for years..

[TimmyBGood]

@Blueboy9 

As @Chrisee indicates, that's text from a press release dated April  15th 2014 for the project known as UFO which has long been and gone.  It's entirely unrelated to the news today.

https://cityfibre.com/news/sky-and-talktalk-partner-with-cityfibre-to-launch-ultra-fast-broadband 

[Chrisee]

@TimmyBGood we should take a moment to remember UFO which was finally laid to rest in August 2022 after many long and painful death throws. RIP.

[peter-marlow+1966]

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@Floydianslip wrote:

Sky FTTP broadband will soon be available on City Fibre, will it be symmetrical and cheaper?

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/08/isp-sky-broadband-uk-to-launch-cityfibre-based-fttp-pa...

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I have just  checked  their website  and the only mention of sky is  if you  want to switch  from them  to city fibre or BT. or any other  Internet provider  to city fibre 

[TimmyBGood]

@peter-marlow+1966 

A key phrase in the article is 'from next year'

[Guy+Price]

LOL, I was a SKY UFO customer for nearly 7 years before SKY dropped City Fibre like a hot potato in October 2022 leaving myself and many other customers in a pickle as BT infra structure in York is appauling at best, SKY tried to convince me that going from 1GB connection to 25MB at double the price was a good thing, and now they are repartnering with them! You couldn't make it up....

[Tony-44]

Hi, I'm a 'newbie' to this forum, but I'll do my best.  Coming to the end of my contract I decided to upgrade with some add-ons and also go full fibre.  I live on an estate where City Fibre have done a massive job running full fibre cables to almost every house on our estate.  At our place the small rubberised cover is right by the front fence and just 6 mtrs from the house.  With that in mind I negotiated a new 24 month contract with Sky and a date of 26 June 25 was given for getting things up and running.   Then the fun began.  Open Reach sent an engineer to mark the pavement and check out what was required for the installation.   But hang on, we already have City Fibre to the house and ready to go.  No noise, no inconveniience all done (and I checked).   Sky and City Fibre have a contract up and running.  None of this mattered as it was decided that the "dig-work" would be done by Open Reach and would commence on 26 June25.  Just three days before work was due to start I was informed by txt that the work was delayed with no date given for it to be done.  Several phone calls and three hours later it was confirmed that City Fibre and Open Reach make the decisions as to how and when any work is to be carried out.  In my case the work is due to be completed on or before August 27 - yes, over 2 months away and a three month wait in total.   Everyone at Sky that I have spopken to, and there have been many from India to North of England all agrgee that it makes sense, both financial and ease of access to get City Fibre, but the matter is out of Skys hands.  Every member of the Sky workforce that I have talked with have been extremely patient and helpful to the best of their ability.  Seems like City Fibre and Open Reach don't much care for the customers wishes.  Still I am looking forward to getting it (eventually) completed.

[JimM1]

@Tony-44 What does the OR and the BTW links say regarding fibre to your address! Use address and fill in the details to each to see!

Fibre Checker

BT Broadband

[Tony-44]

Thanks for your reply.  I am not great on Tech stuff, so forgive me if what I put below is rubbish:

OR (Open Reach)  "Available Now"

BT Broadband checker came up with quite a lot of info which, to me, means nothing.  Sorry.

[TimmyBGood]

@Tony-44 

Having CityFibre infrastructure in the vicinity doesn't necessarily mean that Sky will contract with them rather than Openreach as their carrier: there are potential upstream complications which mean that's not always possible.