List of UK Places Live with CityFibre’s FTTP Broadband ISPs – 2023 Edition

At present, it can sometimes be difficult to keep track of where Cityfibre are actively building their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network and which of those deployments have gone allow (i.e. allowing you to order a live service from an ISP). The following list may help to answer this.

Just to recap. The operator is currently several years into a rollout (start 2018) that will see them become the UK’s third major provider of broadband infrastructure after Openreach and Virgin Media (VMO2). As part of that they’re investing an estimated £2.4bn in equity and £4.9bn debt to reach up to 8 million premises – across more than 285 cities, towns and villages (c.30% of the UK) – by the end of 2025 (here).

At the time of writing, Cityfibre has already covered 2.6 million UK premises, although slightly less than that (2.3 million) are currently considered as Ready For Service (RFS) via UK ISPs, but we’ll come back to that. The network, once completed in a few years’ time, should also pass around 800,000 businesses, 400,000 local authority sites and 250,000 5G access points (masts, rooftop sites etc.).

The operator is now actively building across 86 (up from 63 last year) of their over 285 planned locations, although most of those are still a long way from completion, and the list of in-build locations continues to grow. Once live, consumers tend to be able to pick from a selection of ISPs, but they aren’t all live or available in every location yet.

In each location, the new network tends to go live gradually (phased approach) as work is completed in each neighbourhood, although it can sometimes take around a year before the very first neighbourhood gets switched-on. One caveat here is that CityFibre may declare some areas as RFS before any ISPs are available to take a live connection from (this is reflected in the list below).

The list below displays which of CF’s locations are in-build, as well as which of those in-build areas have premises that are RFS and which of those in-build locations have RFS premises where it’s actually possible to order live services via a supporting ISP.

Just to be clear on the aforementioned points. CF’s network will currently only be live in SOME parts of the locations listed below, and we don’t have an exact list of which ISPs provide service to each listed location – it varies, and the list of ISPs is much longer than those we’ve mentioned above (e.g. in Bradford you’d probably be looking at Legend Fibre – since acquired by Octaplus). But some providers, like those mentioned earlier, either already have or are still working toward full national availability.

Finally, it’s worth pointing out that CityFibre has already completed their primary builds for several locations, including Binley Woods, Solihull, Stirling, March, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Coventry, Yaxley and Inverness. But we should add that the operator is still extending coverage (i.e. beyond their original build plan) in many of those.