In what's being described as the UK's largest ever Fiber to the home initiative Fujitsu telecommunications Europe will connect up to one million properties to i3 groups Fibrecity Broadband network within the next four year.

In July, Fujitsu began rolling out the Fiber Optic network to 68000 homes in Dundee Scotland by 2012, every home and business across the city is expected to have access to broadband up to 1Gbps, the i3 group has pioneered the use of building low cost fiber optics infrastructures in existing ducts in the scwer networks to bring Super Fast Connectivity to homes and business known as the FS system, its claimed that this and other innovative methods enable the i3 group to lay fiber optic cable quicker and more cost effectively than traditional civil works.

In May, Fibrecity holdings which is already enabling home in the southern coastal town of Bournemouth to benefit from Super Fast connectivity services, announced it also plans to develop networks in Derby, Halton, Nottingham, Plymouth and York. Further cities under consideration for networks include Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol and Ipswich.