The company said the new offering will enable its ISP partners to advertise full 1Gbps speed services across its 3 million premise national footprint.
The ‘True Gig’ service is designed to overcome the challenges experienced by ISPs when advertising ‘Gigabit speed’ broadband services to consumers. ISPs are prohibited from advertising a service as 1Gbps, unless they can prove 50 per cent of their customers can access 1Gbps on average at peak times.
Due to the bandwidth overhead required for ISPs to run and monitor a service, a typical 1Gbps wholesale service must therefore be advertised to consumers at slower speeds, typically 900Mbps.
By increasing the wholesale speed to 1.2Gbps, CityFibre said it is enabling its ISP partners deliver a full 1Gbps service to their customers, provided that their own backhaul arrangements and in-premises equipment also supports this.
Dan Ramsay, chief marketing officer, CityFibre, said, “As the builder of the UK’s largest independent full fibre network, CityFibre helped introduce the UK to the concept of the Gigabit, so it’s a privilege to be able to now launch a ‘True Gig’ service to our partners.
“This will give them the confidence to advertise their services as Gigabit Speed and will encourage even more people to join the full fibre revolution.”
The new 1.2Gbps product can deliver symmetrical download and upload speeds when served over CityFibre’s XGS-PON network. Where its network is yet to be upgraded from GPON to XGS-PON, a variant with 1Gbps upload speeds is provided as an interim alternative.