Over the years since we first launched our fixed wireless access service, technology has moved on in leaps and bounds. However, people's expectations and needs have risen in parallel. Although, historically, we have made a (local) name for ourselves as a "wireless broadband" provider, we have always known that the long term future for broadband access lies with fibre.

We have now commenced our initial deployments of fibre to the "X" in two locations. The first of these is Highnam Buiness Centre, where we have a 100 Mbps fibre connection back to our main PoP in Gloucester. There we are simply replacing existing cat5 cables running through the ducts with fibre.

Our second deployment is more ambitious. This is at Ullenwood Court, a rural Business Park around 3 miles south of Cheltenham (very close to the Star Collage). We have installed a high capacity (100 Mbps) microwave link from the site back to our main PoP in Gloucester and are in the process (May 2010) of installing a fibre-to-the-building local distribution. The fibre infrastructure is "point to point", such that each tenant has their own dedicated fibre cable back to the central "street cabinet". Mike Cuttell, the owner of the Business Park, is providing the trenching, whilst Loop Scorpio are providing the ducts, minitubes and blown fibre.