First Customers Live on Bradford’s CityFibre Broadband Network

The first customers have now started to connect to CityFibre’s new £75 million Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network in the Bowling and Tyersal areas of the West Yorkshire UK city of Bradford, which is being built with support from civil engineering firm Network Plus.

The first ISP to offer services on Bradford’s network is newcomer Legend Fibre, which charges from £39 per month on a 24-month term for symmetric speeds of 500Mbps and that goes up to £49 for their top 1Gbps plan. We should add that CF is being supported by various ISPs, such as Vodafone (Gigafast Broadband), TalkTalk, Zen Internet, Giganet and others, but they aren’t all live or available in every location.. yet.

All of this forms part of Cityfibre’s £4bn commitment, which aims to cover 1 million UK premises with their FTTP network by the end of 2021 (over 650,000 have already been reached) and then 8 million premises are expected to be “substantially completed” across 285 cities, towns and villages – c.30% of the UK – by the end of 2025 (here). But CityFibre may yet extend this target to 10m premises (here).