CityFibre’s Gigabit Broadband Goes Live in Rotherham UK

CityFibre has today announced that their £29m rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham has finally reached the stage of connecting its first customers, which are being supported by local ISP partner Pure Broadband (more providers will follow).

As usual this rollout forms part of CityFibre’s wider £4bn investment programme, which aims to cover 1 million UK premises with their network by the end of 2021 (over 650,000 have already been reached) and then 8 million premises across 285 cities, towns and villages – c.30% of the UK (here). The 8m target aims to be “substantially completed” by the end of 2025, and they may yet extend that further to 10m premises (here).

The build in Rotherham, which aspires to reach “almost every home and property” in the town, began last July 2020 and a number of areas have since been completed – mostly around parts of Kimberworth, Bradgate and Deepdale.

Adam Roebuck, First resident to sign-up, said:

“When I first heard CityFibre were building a new broadband network across the city, I couldn’t wait. I registered my interest on the CityFibre website and even sent a few emails just to ask about when it might be coming.

I’m over the moon with the speed and reliability of the service as my previous 4Mbps connection struggled to manage multiple devices, especially at peak times. I went with the 200Mbps upload and download service and even with all nine of my devices connected I have never dropped under 190Mbps!”

As usual CityFibre won’t have Rotherham all to itself, with gigabit-capable broadband networks from rivals Virgin Media and Openreach also being present in the local area.