Zen Internet’s 900Mbps Broadband Live in Leicester via CityFibre

Broadband ISP Zen Internet has just become the first provider to confirm that their residential service is now available to those covered by CityFibre’s new £80 million rollout of a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the East Midlands city of Leicester, which began last June 2020 (here).

Cityfibre are currently investing £4bn to cover around 1 million UK premises with their alternative FTTP network by the end of 2021 (500,000 have already completed), which will then rise to 8 million across 100+ cities and towns (c.30% of the UK) – due to be “substantially completed” by the end of 2025. But your ISP options do tend to vary from location to location.

So far Zen Internet has made their new CF based gigabit class broadband package available to homes in Adur & Worthing (here), Newcastle (here) and Ipswich. The latest to join that club is Leicester, which was due to go live last month but has instead started a little later.

As before the relevant 900Mbps Full Fibre Plus package costs just £40 per month with free setup (normally £29.99), although this launch offer is due to end on 30th June 2021.

Paul Stobart, CEO of Zen Internet, said:

“We are really excited to be bringing this reliable and lightning- fast broadband service to homes in Leicester via our strategic partnership with CityFibre. All of us as consumers of technology are increasingly reliant on reliable connectivity; rates in the volume of data and information being shared are rising dramatically.

In order to be successful we need to ensure everyone everywhere has access to fill fibre. As we near an end to the prolonged period of lockdown we have all had to endure, it is great that Leicester, a city which has suffered immensely throughout the pandemic, is one of the first locations to be able to unlock the benefits that gigabit-speed connectivity can bring. Reliable high-speed connectivity will be crucial to bolstering the city’s digital capabilities, which in turn will drive significant business and economic growth.”

More locations are due to follow.