ISP TalkTalk UK Extends Cityfibre FTTP to Adur and Worthing
Budget conscious broadband ISP TalkTalk has announced that their CityFibre based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages have just been made available to homes in the Adur and Worthing area (West Sussex), which follows a similar announcement from rival Zen Internet in January 2021.
CityFibre are currently investing £4bn to cover around 1 million UK premises with their alternative FTTP network by the end of 2021 (so far almost 650,000 have already been completed), which will then rise to 8 million across 285 cities, towns and villages – c.30% of the UK (here). The latter target is expected to be “substantially completed” by the end of 2025.
Last month saw TalkTalk beginning to extend their related ‘Future Fibre‘ package into some of the above areas, including the four cities and towns of Aberdeen, Bolton, Milton Keynes and Peterborough. Today they’ve extended this to Adur and Worthing, and we expect residents in the Peterborough villages of Glinton and Eye to follow once the network is built (here).
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Jonathan Kini, MD of TalkTalk Direct Business and Consumer, said:
“We believe fast, affordable, full fibre broadband should be accessible to all. This has been brought into even sharper focus by the pandemic, so we’re thrilled that people across Worthing can now benefit from the UK’s latest fibre technology thanks to our new Future Fibre packages.”
Prices tend to start at £32 per month for 150Mbps (symmetric) on an 18-month term (plus £4.95 postage) or £40 per month for 500Mbps, which is currently aligned with pricing on their Openreach based FTTP platform. Eventually we’d expect TalkTalk to become available across the whole of Cityfibre’s network and the same goes for other ISPs, so in the future we won’t be writing about every new city launch (too repetitive).
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Worst company ever. Constant disconnections. Horrible engineers who knows nothing. And telephone support absolutely India.Also upload speed is non existant.
You realise that any speed issues and disconnections are most likely to the the network your on not talktalk and this is via city fibre so speeds will definitely not be an issue
It depends on the service Danny. Talk talk are one of the ISPs with their own kit in BT exchanges to provide ADSL.
You one of those who want to take us back in time. Good thing small communities do better jobs than big corporations when it comes to speeds and reliability. After 13 years I’ll finally be able to order FTTP in this rotten country. Lack of knowledge how things works in network infrastructure. This is what makes this country really horrible and the reason why they still use oldest technologies as possible. Users one billion per day 50 million 4% of the internet.
Yet the UK was one of the only countries where isp’s weren’t having to hobble the entire network to cope with the surge during the pandemic…
Wait, you’re still using dialup? Or have you got a 1200bps leased line to an x.25 PAD somewhere?
When are they going to start offering this in Newcastle? Surprisingly its only Zen offering FTTP in Newcastle on the CityFibre network, not TalkTalk and not even Vodafone (Or at least the postcodes I checked were only offering Zen).
It’s seem as if new area only start with one provider until other are ready.
You should soon see all CityFibre providers offer service across the entire network, similar to the likes of Openreach but as this is all new it takes time to grow.