COMMUNICA | Issue Five
“Significant progress has been
made and we have now reached
64,000 homes and businesses, and
connected our 15,000th customer”
John Henry Group has been
building Gigaclear’s rural network
in Northampton, providing both
fibre services and construction
techniques.
Secondly, we have also now started using innovative
LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) technology to
map and design full fibre networks.
This technology gives us a pin-point accurate and
up-to-date three-dimensional view of where we
are going to build from which they can clearly see
surface types and even the scars in the road left by
other utilities so we can better plan to avoid them.
With each new project, we learn and adapt our
processes, automating our operation. This makes
each build more predictable, which ensures that the
network designs are increasingly accurate every
time, saving both time and money.
Looking to the future
Significant progress has been made and we have
now reached 64,000 homes and businesses, and
connected our 15,000th customer.
But this is not enough. Our vision is that every rural
property in the UK should be able to enjoy a full fibre
connection by 2030.
That will mean massive investment in fibre networks
and an end to the patching and repairing of centu-
ry-old copper lines.
Gigaclear definitely can’t meet that whole challenge
on our own, but there’s widespread agreement,
across government and the telecoms industry, that
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this is exactly what needs to happen.
For now, our immediate plans are to connect
150,000 customers by 2020 – and we’re on track to
achieve that. Whilst our business goes from strength
to strength, we keep our long-term vision firmly front
of mind.
Imagine if every home, in every town, village or
hamlet – no matter how rural – had connection to
ultrafast full fibre broadband.
Imagine if every tiny primary school in the country-
side had access to all of the digital resources that
their bigger cousins in major cities enjoy.
Imagine if every small business enjoyed an internet
connection that enabled them to compete with their
urban rivals, rather than endure lengthy commutes to
work alongside them.
That’s the Gigaclear vision, and we believe it will
become a reality by 2030.