WightFibre’s Gigabit Island project continues at pace with a total of 15,000 homes now able to receive the service.
Homes throughout Ryde, Sandown, Wootton, Cowes, Gurnard, Northwood, East Cowes, Newport and surrounding areas, including Carisbrooke, can now enjoy WightFibre’s new full-fibre broadband.
This new ultrafast, future-proof full-fibre broadband truly is a different kind of broadband and provides a completely new online experience at speeds of up to 900Mb. This speed is amongst the fastest broadband speeds available anywhere in the world.
Commenting on the latest release, WightFibre CEO John Irvine said:
“This is a significant milestone in our project and demonstrates the project is well underway and on track to deliver full-fibre broadband across the whole island. Parts of Ryde and Sandown are included in the 15 000 homes passed and work is already underway to connect parts of Shanklin in the next couple of months as well.
“WightFibre’s point to point full-fibre network (where every home gets its own dedicated fibre optic cable rather than sharing with others) is fairly unique in the UK and will set the island apart from others allowing WightFibre to deliver an amazing customer experience”.
Bob Seely MP said:
“This is good news for the Island and a fantastic start to WightFibre’s Gigabit Island project. We need to start levelling up the Island and the Government’s full-fibre broadband programme will help deliver this ultrafast broadband to all Island properties over the next few years. This project is providing the Island with some of the best broadband available anywhere in the world.”
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Well done Wightfibre,are you going to return and make good pavements and driveway entrances that now look like patchwork quilts,and ploughed fields?
And how many people will actually use this on the Island?
Throughout Ryde did you say? I’m in Ryde and it’s not in Somerset road yet. Our pavements have been a patchwork quilt for as long as I have lived here (26years) so a little more patchwork will make no difference.