Cityfibre UK Expand Glasgow FTTP Broadband Build to Clydebank

Cityfibre has today announced that their huge £270 million rollout of a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network across Glasgow (Scotland) is being extended into the Clydebank area, which will be supported by a new civil engineering contractor – local company IMS Scotland.

The Glasgow project, which began in 2021, is the operator’s largest city-wide investment for full fibre deployment in the UK. Broadband services have already gone live across a large chunk of the city region, such as from Johnstone in the west to Rutherglen in the east, with many parts of Glasgow City Council’s area included too. But there’s still a lot of work left to do.

The planned expansion into the Clydebank area is due to start during “early 2023” and indeed, upon closer inspection, we can see that the first Cityfibre works in this phase look set to begin around 24th January 2023.

David Cannon, CityFibre’s Area Manager for Glasgow, said:

“The appointment of IMS Scotland marks the next stage of our ambitious rollout of full fibre infrastructure across Glasgow. We are pleased to be bringing our network to a new area in the city so that more people can access the benefits of full fibre broadband.

We have worked with IMS in other cities across Scotland and I am confident they will deliver the build with as little disruption as possible. I want to thank the local community for their patience as we work to future-proof Glasgow’s digital infrastructure.”

The expansion forms part of Cityfibre’s wider project to cover up to 8 million premises (funded by c.£2.4bn in equity and c.£4.9bn debt) – across around 285 cities, towns and villages (c.30% of the UK) – by the end of 2025 (here). So far, the operator has already covered 2 million UK premises – with 1.8m Ready For Service (RFS) via UK ISPs (here). The network will also pass around 800k businesses, 400k local authority sites and 250k 5G access points.