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CityFibre Make Business FTTP Broadband Available to 4.5 Million UK Premises

20th January, 2026 (1 Comment)

The country’s largest alternative broadband operator, CityFibre, has this morning announced that they’ve “unlocked” their nationwide footprint and made their business Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) services available across 4.5 million premises – offering wholesale business products at data speeds of up to 2.5Gbps (Gigabits per second).

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Six Alternative UK Broadband Networks Ranked in Sunday Times 100 Tech List

20th January, 2026 (4 Comments)

The latest 2026 Sunday Times 100 Tech list has been published, which reflects a ranking of Britain’s fastest-growing private technology companies. The good news is that six broadband network operators have managed to make it into the 2026 hardware list, with Netomnia topping the table in 3rd place and CityFibre just edging in at 48th at the bottom.

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Vodafone UK Sale Offers 12 Months Half Price Business Broadband

9th January, 2026 (0 Comments)

Mobile and internet provider Vodafone Business this week launched their Winter Sale Offers, which means that new small business customers can get 12 months half price on all their Business Broadband Plans. But the offer will only be available to order until Wednesday 4th March 2026.

Business ISP Exascale Launches UK Consumer Broadband Brand

5th January, 2026 (9 Comments)

Communications provider and UK network builder Exascale, which has deployed their own gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to a few thousand premises in part of Telford and Wrekin, has quietly launched a more consumer focused broadband brand that will sell packages via several fibre networks.

Toob Adjust Planned UK Full Fibre Broadband Build in Waterlooville UPDATE

23rd December, 2025 (5 Comments)

Hampshire-based altnet and UK ISP toob, which has built a gigabit speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband network across parts of South England and also harnesses CityFibre’s network in other areas, appears to have recently removed the core part of Waterlooville (Hampshire, England) from their future roll-out plan.

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Wholesale Provider PXC Launch CityFibre Business FTTP for UK ISPs

17th December, 2025 (2 Comments)

Network provider PlatformX Communications (PXC), which is a trading name of UK internet provider TalkTalk and sells wholesale solutions to ISPs (inc. other network providers), has today announced that they’ve made CityFibre’s Business Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband services available to all their partners.

Vodafone UK Add New Who’s Home Feature to Ultra Hub 7 Broadband Router

16th December, 2025 (10 Comments)

Customers of internet, mobile and phone provider Vodafone UK, specifically those who take their latest Ultra Hub 7 Fibre (FG4278VF) router on Pro 3 Home Broadband packages, may like to know that the ISP has just introduced a new ‘Who’s Home’ smart feature to the device that “provides alerts when your loved ones arrive home“.

ISP Zen Internet Acquire Lit Fibre’s UK Consumer Broadband Base UPDATE

16th December, 2025 (15 Comments)

Rochdale-based broadband ISP Zen Internet has today followed their recent acquisition of Fibrehop‘s customer base (here) by announcing that they’ve also agreed to acquire Lit Fibre’s customers. This follows a decision by Lit’s Board to exit the UK internet access market, after previously selling the full fibre network they built to CityFibre.

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CityFibre Updates on Future UK 50Gbps and 100Gbps Broadband Upgrades

10th December, 2025 (26 Comments)

The Chief Technology Officer of major alternative network provider CityFibre, David Tomalin, has provided an update on their plans to upgrade their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband infrastructure to support 50G-PON (50Gbps Passive Optical Network) and then 100G-PON technology in the future.

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BT’s Former Chief UK Network Architect Becomes CityFibre’s New CTIO

9th December, 2025 (6 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre, which have so far expanded their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband network to cover 4.6 million UK premises (4.3m RFS) and connected 730,000 customers, has today announced that BT Group’s former Chief Architect, Neil McRae, has been appointed to be the company’s new Chief Technology & Information Officer (CTIO).

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Vodafone UK’s CityFibre Broadband Users Can’t Upgrade to 2Gbps+

6th December, 2025 (52 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone’s fixed home broadband packages, specifically those on their 910Mbps (1Gbps) or slower Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages with major UK altnet CityFibre, have complained that the ISP is preventing them from taking out the provider’s fastest 2.2Gbps package due to the lack of an upgrade process.

Vodafone UK Launch Black Friday Sale on Broadband and Mobile

28th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK will today take the wrappings off their annual Black Friday sale, which introduces additional discounts on the monthly prices of their various fixed line home broadband packages and SIM-Only mobile plans, among other things.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet Expands UK Business Connectivity Products

27th November, 2025 (0 Comments)

Rochdale-based ISP Zen Internet has today announced that they’ve expanded their Direct Business connectivity portfolio to give UK businesses access to “more full fibre networks than any other ISP“. The main development seems to be the launch of CityFibre’s Business FTTP, Ethernet Flex and Direct Internet Access (DIA) services.

Utility Warehouse Prep UK VoIP Phone Service as 561,086 Take Broadband

25th November, 2025 (4 Comments)

Energy and communications provider Telecom Plus, which trades as Utility Warehouse (UW), has just published their latest H1 FY26 Results to the end of September 2025 and revealed that their broadband ISP grew its total UK customer base to 561,086 (up by 176,196 in the year) and their mobile base grew to 698,054 (up by 171,887).

ISP Vodafone Expand Streaming Add-ons to UK Fixed Home Broadband

21st November, 2025 (2 Comments)

Customers of Vodafone’s home broadband packages, which harness gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) lines from a mix of different networks (Openreach, CityFibre and CommunityFibre), may like to know that the internet provider has just expanded the availability of their ‘Add to Plan’ service from mobile to fixed line packages.

UK ISP Yayzi Move CityFibre Broadband Customers to Zen Internet UPDATE

20th November, 2025 (18 Comments)

Retail internet provider Yayzi Broadband has today suddenly started informing their residential broadband customers, specifically those served using CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, that they’re being “transferred” to UK ISP Zen Internet. We’ve also had this confirmed by one of Zen’s support reps.

Progress as CityFibre Integrates Connexin’s UK FTTP Broadband Network UPDATE

19th November, 2025 (8 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre appears to be getting close to completing the integration of Connexin’s 10Gbps capable full fibre (FTTP) broadband infrastructure, which is present across parts of East Yorkshire (Hull etc.), Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire (England), into their national UK network.