CityFibre UK Complete Primary FTTP Broadband Rollout in Dundee
Network operator CityFibre, which has so far built their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 4.4 million UK premises (4.2m Ready for Service), have today confirmed the completion of their “primary” £40 million build in the city of Dundee (Scotland).
The full fibre network deployment, which was originally started in October 2020 (here), has now built to over 58,000 premises (homes and businesses) in Dundee via over 488km of new fibre cable. The operator also connects more than 25 public sector sites in the city, including council offices, schools, libraries and leisure centres (this bit is more akin to Dark Fibre).
As usual, CityFibre aren’t the only gigabit-capable broadband network present in the city, with Dundee also being home to significant coverage from Openreach’s FTTP network and Virgin Media (inc. nexfibre). On top of that there are several smaller deployments from Hyperoptic and FibreNest.
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The operator said they would now “continue to explore opportunities to connect more homes and businesses, including flats, new-build homes, business parks and homes on private roads.”
Paul Wakefield, Senior Partnership Manager at CityFibre, said:
“We’re delighted to announce the completion of our full-fibre primary build in Dundee. This rollout marks an exciting step for the city’s connectivity, which will benefit from faster, more reliable and cheaper broadband connectivity. With the UK’s most advanced digital infrastructure now beneath its streets, Dundee residents can enjoy seamless streaming and significant productivity benefits.”
The alternative network operator, which has so far attracted 550,000 (March 2025) live customers and also expects to have upgraded their entire network to 10Gbps capable XGS-PON technology by mid-2025 (here), currently still aspires to cover up to 8 million UK premises with their new full fibre network (funded by c.£2.4bn in equity, c.£4.9bn debt and nearly £1bn of BDUK / public subsidy) – representing c.30% of the UK. But quite when they’ll reach that point is unclear.
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“The alternative network operator, which has so far attracted 518,000 live customers”
Mark – You can’t take a number from 31st December 2024 and claim that number in April 2025!
Policy is to take the most recently available public figure issued by the operator, which is perfectly reasonable as that’s all you can do. But in this case, there was a new one released indirectly by an ISP recently, so I’ve put that above.
Rollout in Dundee apparently complete but came to my street and only done the bottom half, got told from the manager that they would look to put it into the service strip and had the ducting for it not to be done. Half a Joab if you ask me, I wouldn’t class it as complete In Dundee when the checker on the website says their still building in my area. Point being if your not gonna do all of it what’s the point in doing quarter of the street
Build has to stop somewhere and doing every property was never going to happen.
Key word being primary. Your area probably wasn’t done to engineering difficulties or unadopted land.
Just because the primary build is complete doesn’t mean infill won’t be doing parts that are missed.
Good shout, I am currently with a provider that has its hands tightly grasped around the necks of this whole area Dundee Dunbar area iv checked on all the different fiber offers none offer there services to us unfortunately, Dont know if this area is even part of the secondary work nothing to say it is and they just say permission required, anyone know who we can reach out to to see if they will be fitting it around here, i have a family member away out in strafpether and there running fiber to home brawband! Just a simple update to there sites to say they are working in our streets its been roled out all around this area for quite some time now, surly if they can fit fiber in rural areas they can do it in a City?
Should Aberdeen not read Dundee in this sentence: “As usual, CityFibre aren’t the only gigabit-capable broadband network present in the city, with Aberdeen also being home to significant coverage….” AFAIK Virgin Media isn’t available in Aberdeen but does cover most of Dundee!
Oops, fixed :).