ISP TalkTalk Switches on Future Fibre Broadband in Edinburgh

UK ISP TalkTalk has announced that their new CityFibre and Openreach based Future Fibre packages, which offer broadband speeds of up to 500Mbps via Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology, have been extended to homes in Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh.

At present, Cityfibre’s network is still in the early process of building out to cover 8 million premises by around the end of 2025, although well over 650,000 premises have already been completed. The same packages, at the same price, are also available via Openreach’s rival FTTP network, which currently covers 5.2 million premises and is aiming for 25 million by December 2026.

Prices tend to start at £32 per month for an unlimited 150Mbps service on a 24-month term or £40 per month for 500Mbps, although you’ll get slower upload speeds on the Openreach product (CityFibre is symmetric). TalkTalk also recently teamed-up with Amazon to offer its eero 6 and eero Pro 6 mesh Wi-Fi routers alongside these packages (here), although for some reason availability does tend to vary by location.

The same service has already gone live in other locations, including Harrogate, Aberdeen, Bolton, Bournemouth, Doncaster, Derby, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Adur, Worthing, Ipswich, Inverness, Coventry, Cambridge, Stirling, Leicester and Leeds.