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CityFibre Deal Brings FTTP Broadband to 18,000 Citizen Tenants

31st March, 2021 (1 Comment)

Some 18,000 tenants and customers of Citizen, a social housing provider in the West Midlands (England) city of Coventry, look set to gain access to a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network as part of a new agreement with CityFibre.

Report Claims Labelling Could Help UK Uptake of FTTP Broadband

31st March, 2021 (41 Comments)

A new report from WIK-Consult, which was commissioned by CityFibre, has claimed that the introduction of a new UK labelling system, with better information on broadband services, could increase consumer take-up of gigabit Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) ISP products by 40% (i.e. an extra 1.6 million homes by 2025).

Quickline and Pure Broadband Live on Doncaster’s Cityfibre FTTP UPDATE

30th March, 2021 (1 Comment)

CityFibre’s £25m project to deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network across the South Yorkshire town of Doncaster, which began in April 2020 (here), has started to bear fruit after two of their UK ISP partners – Quickline (Quickfire) and Pure Broadband – began connecting their first customers.

Wildcard Networks Births New UK Full Fibre ISP Fibreconnect

20th March, 2021 (4 Comments)

Business ISP Wildcard Networks has given birth to a “full fibre” (Dark Fibre and FTTP broadband) focused sibling called Fibreconnect, which is the operator’s consumer-facing brand. Both sides of the business are now building networks around Newcastle and, on top of that, they’re about to hop on Cityfibre’s platform.

CityFibre Prep FTTP for 12,500 Thirteen Group Homes in Middlesbrough

18th March, 2021 (0 Comments)

CityFibre UK has reached a new partnership with landlord and housing developer Thirteen Group, which thanks to a blanket wayleave agreement will ensure that 12,500 of their customers in Middlesbrough (North Yorkshire, England) can gain access to a 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband ISP network.

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CityFibre Start FTTP Broadband Rollout for Poole and Christchurch

17th March, 2021 (2 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today announced that they’re investing £30m to support the rollout of a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to homes and businesses in the Dorset towns of Poole and Christchurch, which will complement their existing deployment in the neighbouring city of Bournemouth.

CityFibre UK Sets GBP20m FTTP Broadband Rollout for Solihull

16th March, 2021 (0 Comments)

CityFibre has today confirmed some details of their £20 million rollout plan for a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to homes and businesses in the large West Midlands (England) town of Solihull, which is home to 123,000 people. The first construction work is due to begin in April 2021.

ISP TalkTalk UK Extends Cityfibre FTTP to Adur and Worthing

15th March, 2021 (8 Comments)

Budget conscious broadband ISP TalkTalk has announced that their CityFibre based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages have just been made available to homes in the Adur and Worthing area (West Sussex), which follows a similar announcement from rival Zen Internet in January 2021.

Cityfibre Name 285 UK Areas for GBP4bn Gigabit Broadband Rollout UPDATE

12th March, 2021 (98 Comments)

Alternative network builder CityFibre has today confirmed the full list of 285 UK cities, towns and villages where they plan to deploy their new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTHP) broadband platform, which will work alongside ISPs like Vodafone and TalkTalk to cover 8 million homes and businesses. Rural areas will also benefit.

CityFibre Update – Full Fibre Plans for Glasgow, Blackpool and Cheltenham

11th March, 2021 (9 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today issued some important progress updates on their plans to deploy a new 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover premises (homes and businesses) across the city of Glasgow (Scotland), and the towns of Cheltenham in Gloucestershire and Blackpool in Lancashire (England).

CityFibre Spend £1.5m to Extend Peterborough’s FTTP Broadband

10th March, 2021 (5 Comments)

CityFibre has announced that they will invest an additional £1.5m to boost the coverage of their original £30m project in the Cambridgeshire city of Peterborough, which was one of their first deployments of a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network with UK ISP partner Vodafone (plus TalkTalk).

Cityfibre UK Prep Preston’s £30m FTTP Gigabit Broadband Rollout

9th March, 2021 (4 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today announced that they’ve started detailed survey work for another of their planned builds, which will see them invest £30 million to deploy a new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Lancashire city of Preston.

Zen Internet’s 900Mbps Broadband Live in Leicester via CityFibre

9th March, 2021 (15 Comments)

Broadband ISP Zen Internet has just become the first provider to confirm that their residential service is now available to those covered by CityFibre’s new £80 million rollout of a 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network in the East Midlands city of Leicester, which began last June 2020 (here).

CityFibre May Sell Minority Stake to Raise Fibre Rollout Funding

8th March, 2021 (20 Comments)

CityFibre, which is currently working to deploy their 1Gbps FTTP broadband ISP network to cover 8 million UK premises over the next five years (here and here), has reportedly hired bankers at UBS and Rothschild to help it sell a significant minority stake (worth many hundreds of millions) to a third potential backer.

CityFibre Preps 1Gbps FTTP Rollout in Bracknell and Maidenhead

8th March, 2021 (10 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today confirmed that they will soon start work on their £34 million project to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Berkshire (England) towns of Bracknell (£20m) and Maidenhead (£14m), with both being expected to reach completion during 2024.

Fibre Engineering Firm Lite Access Updates on its Cityfibre Dispute UPDATE

3rd March, 2021 (8 Comments)

Lite Access, which specialises in deploying UK fibre optic (e.g. FTTP) broadband infrastructure, has officially appointed FRP Advisory Trading Limited as administrators and confirmed that they intend to “vigorously defend” themselves against Cityfibre’s position that they were in repudiatory breach of contract(s).

CityFibre Begins FTTP Broadband Rollout to Homes in Chester

2nd March, 2021 (8 Comments)

CityFibre UK has today announced that construction has started on their new £23 million project to deploy a gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network across the Cathedral City of Chester in Cheshire (England), which is home to around 80,000 people.