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CityFibre to Rollout FTTP Broadband Across Yorkshire Housing

30th June, 2022 (12 Comments)

Network builder CityFibre has reached a new wayleave (access) agreement with Yorkshire Housing, a charitable housing association that manages nearly 20,000 homes across Yorkshire (England), which will enable them to deploy their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to “thousands of tenants“.

CityFibre and O’Connor Utilities Launch Engineer Training Centre

28th June, 2022 (3 Comments)

The shortage of skilled UK fibre broadband engineers is quite a well-known problem, which has resulted in a number of network buildings and ISPs establishing their own training centres. CityFibre has now moved to do the same in South Yorkshire, which is being done in co-operation with civil engineering partner O’Connor Utilities.

AltNets Trial Ability to Replace Openreach Copper with Fibre Lines on Poles

15th June, 2022 (31 Comments)

Alternative broadband providers are about to begin a new trial that will, for the first time, grant their engineers the ability to replace an existing copper dropwire on an existing Openreach pole (telegraph pole) with a new optical fibre one for gigabit-capable broadband, albeit only under certain circumstances.

CityFibre Prep £2m FTTP Broadband Build for Village of Yaxley

14th June, 2022 (4 Comments)

The village and civil parish of Yaxley in Cambridgeshire (England), which is home to a population of over 9,000, has just become one of CityFibre’s smallest builds after they confirmed their plan to invest £2m as part of their ongoing deployment of gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP technology.

Vodafone Claims to be UK’s Largest Full Fibre Broadband ISP UPDATE

13th June, 2022 (21 Comments)

Vodafone today claims to have “overtaken” BT to become the UK’s “largest full fibre broadband provider” via their Gigafast Broadband plans, but they aren’t referring to customer figures (1 million). Instead, this reflects the fact that they now sell gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) plans via both Openreach and CityFibre.

CityFibre Begins GBP30m FTTP Broadband Rollout in St Helens

9th June, 2022 (6 Comments)

CityFibre has today broken the first ground on their £30m investment to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large town and borough of St Helens in Merseyside (England), which aims to cover most of the local homes and businesses by 2025.

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CityFibre Start Halifax FTTP Broadband Build with New Contractor

7th June, 2022 (9 Comments)

After a long delay due to the failure of their previous local contractor, CityFibre has today announced the start (or restart) of their £23m project to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the large West Yorkshire (England) town of Halifax.

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CityFibre Sign GBP4.9bn Debt Raise to Boost UK Full Fibre Rollout

3rd June, 2022 (14 Comments)

CityFibre has announced “one of Europe’s largest ever Full Fibre financings” by completing a debt raise worth a staggering £4.9bn. The deal enables them to complete their plan to cover 8 million UK premises with gigaibt-capable FTTP broadband and to bid on contract’s under the Government’s £5bn Project Gigabit scheme for rural areas.

CityFibre to Connect 4,000 Solihull Community Housing Tenants to FTTP

1st June, 2022 (6 Comments)

CityFibre has today announced a new “blanket wayleave agreement” with the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull in the West Midlands (England), which will enable their existing £25m rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network in the town to reach 4,000 Solihull Community Housing tenants.

CityFibre Prep GBP23m FTTP Broadband Build in High Wycombe

30th May, 2022 (1 Comment)

The large market town of High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire (England) has been named as the next to benefit from CityFibre’s rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network. The local build aims to “reach … almost every home and business” in the town and is being supported by a £23m investment.

Complaints Prompt Inspections of CityFibre’s Swindon Full Fibre Build

30th May, 2022 (6 Comments)

The Swindon Borough Council has confirmed that “all works” by CityFibre, which is currently investing £40m to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Wiltshire town, will be “inspected for defects shortly“. The move was prompted by “numerous” complaints.

CityFibre to Start GBP28m 1Gbps Broadband Build in Stockton

27th May, 2022 (11 Comments)

Network developer CityFibre has announced that they’ve committed £28m to help rollout their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “almost every home and business” within the market town of Stockton-on-Tees, which is in County Durham (England).

CityFibre Commit GBP17m to Build Full Fibre Broadband in Havant

25th May, 2022 (5 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they plan to invest £17 million in order to deploy their gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “every home and business” in the Havant, Emsworth, Southbourne and Westbourne areas of Hampshire (England).

CityFibre UK Scoops FTTH Council Europe’s Operator Award

24th May, 2022 (2 Comments)

The FTTH Council Europe, which is currently holding its annual conference in Vienna (Austria) this week, has today announced the winners of three awards that reflect those who have made “outstanding contributions” to the acceleration of FTTP/B deployment in Europe. One of the headline ‘Operator Award‘ winners was CityFibre.

CityFibre Completes FTTP Broadband Rollout to Peterborough UK

18th May, 2022 (23 Comments)

CityFibre has today announced that their long-running £35m project to rollout a new full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Cambridgeshire (England) city of Peterborough has now reached “primary” completion, which means that 67,000 homes and businesses (around 85% of the city) can now access gigabit speeds.

Vodafone Hits 1.05 Million UK Fixed Broadband ISP Customers

17th May, 2022 (3 Comments)

Vodafone UK has today published their latest results (financial Q4 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base has finally passed the million mark to total 1,050,000 (up by +59k in the quarter vs +29k in Q3 FY22). But it’s unclear whether they’ve managed to achieve national availability across CityFibre’s FTTP network, yet.

CityFibre Invest GBP15m to Build FTTP Broadband in Great Yarmouth

12th May, 2022 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they will invest £15m to rollout their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across “nearly every” home and business in the Norfolk seaside town of Great Yarmouth. Construction work on the new full fibre network is planned to “begin this winter“.