ISP Andrews and Arnold Soft Launch CityFibre Based FTTP Plans

UK ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP) has today soft launched their first Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband packages over Cityfibre’s network, which marks the first time that they’ve offered products on an alternative platform to Openreach’s national infrastructure.

In case anybody has been living under a rock for the past few years. Cityfibre is a large alternative full fibre network that aims to cover up to 8 million premises – 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 a supporting ISP (here).

The latest ISP to support Cityfibre’s network is AAISP, although they’re still in somewhat of an early market deployment phase and as such customers will need to manually email and ask the provider whether it’s available before knowing if you can get it in your area. Full online ordering will follow later for the full launch.

Further details can be found on the provider’s Dedicated Cityfibre Page, which shows that all of their related residential packages come attached to a short 1-month minimum term, a static IPv4 WAN address and /64 (or bigger if required) block of IPv6 addresses and a one-off installation / migration charge of just £10, with a lead time of 10-14 working days.

Customers will be able to use their own router or pay a bit extra to get one of the provider’s pre-configured options. Prices for their symmetric speed packages start from £37 per month for 160Mbps with a 1 TeraByte (TB) usage allowance (£47 if you want 10TB), which rises to £57 for their top 1Gbps tier (£67 for 10TB).