Global InformationFibrecity Holdings information
 | Parts of this article (those related to many "as of" sentences in this article are from 2011. It's 2020. Can someone fact check them to see if they still apply?) need to be updated. (August 2020) |
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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Telecommunications |
| Founded | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England (2008); acquired by CityFibre Holidngs in 2011 |
| Headquarters | 271 Regent Street, London, England |
Key people | Elfed Thomas, Founder Greg Mesch, CEO Mark Collins, CCO |
| Owner | CityFibre Holdings Limited |
| Parent | CityFibre Holdings Limited |
| Website | www.cityfibreholdings.com |
Fibrecity Holdings was formerly owned by i3 Group and was acquired in a Management buyout in January 2011 by CityFibre Holdings Ltd [1] following the collapse of FibreCity's principal lender Total Asset Finance.
i3 Group launched Fibrecity Holdings as a new high speed fibre optic infrastructure to be built in the UK and was also promised for overseas cities and metropolitan areas. It was said to provide connection speeds of 100 Mbit/s to homes, SMEs and educational facilities on the network. The network uses 'fibre to the home' (FTTH) technology.[2]
The infrastructure build was started by i3 Group in Bournemouth in 2009 and this was to become the UK's first Fibrecity. The next UK Fibrecity was announced to be Dundee where work on installing the infrastructure was reported to have started in summer 2010.[3]
i3 Group announced but ceased involvement with a Fibrecity project in Brisbane, Australia.[4]
- ^ "The i3 Group Sells UK Fibrecity Broadband Projects amid Council Fury". IS Preview. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Fibrecity offers Dundee residents 100Mbit/s FTTH". Computing. September 2010. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "Bournemouth the priority for new owners of 'fibrecity' superfast broadband project". The Courier. 5 May 2011. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
- ^ "A Series of Tubes #120: Your guided walk through the NBN forest!". IT Radio. Retrieved 13 July 2014.