Friday Review: Going up the country
By Nick Wood, Total Telecom
Friday 15 April 11

The U.K. broadband market could be set for a significant shake-up thanks to proposals unveiled by a certain Japanese tech giant.
U.K. wholesale incumbent BT Openreach has a fight on its hands as of this week if it wants to secure government funding to develop rural broadband networks.
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu on Wednesday pledged to invest between £1.5 billion and £2 billion – £500 million of which will come from the coalition government's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) fund – to deploy a 1-Gbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network that will connect 5 million rural premises to high-speed broadband over the next three-to-five years.
ISPs Virgin Media and TalkTalk have already agreed to buy access to Fujitsu's wholesale network in a bid to win high-speed Internet customers in remote areas of the country, which in turn promises to ramp up competition with BT Retail.
Fujitsu describes its new network plan as "…
U.K. wholesale incumbent BT Openreach has a fight on its hands as of this week if it wants to secure government funding to develop rural broadband networks.
Japanese tech giant Fujitsu on Wednesday pledged to invest between £1.5 billion and £2 billion – £500 million of which will come from the coalition government's Broadband Delivery UK (BDUK) fund – to deploy a 1-Gbps fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network that will connect 5 million rural premises to high-speed broadband over the next three-to-five years.
ISPs Virgin Media and TalkTalk have already agreed to buy access to Fujitsu's wholesale network in a bid to win high-speed Internet customers in remote areas of the country, which in turn promises to ramp up competition with BT Retail.
Fujitsu describes its new network plan as "…
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