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CityFibre UK Completes Primary FTTP Broadband Build in Aberdeen

21st February, 2025 (15 Comments)

Network access provider CityFibre, which has so far built their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover 4.3 million UK premises (4.1m Ready for Service), have confirmed the completion of their “primary” £59m build in the city of Aberdeen (Scotland).

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Vodafone UK Send Mixed Messages Over Static IP Availability for Broadband UPDATE

13th February, 2025 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and UK ISP Vodafone has today confirmed to ISPreview that customers of their fixed line consumer broadband packages, which are supplied over Openreach and CityFibre’s national networks (FTTC and FTTP), should still be able to request a Static IP (Internet Protocol) address. But this is despite some support staff telling users the opposite.

CityFibre Report 518K UK Full Fibre Customers and Profitability UPDATE

11th February, 2025 (35 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today published a key trading update for the year ended 31st December 2024 (FY24), which reveals that the coverage of their full fibre (FTTP) broadband ISP network has now reached 4.3 million UK premises (inc. Lit Fibre), with 518,000 live customers, and they also delivered their “first full year of profitability“.

Broadband ISP Zen Internet UK Now Offering 2.3Gbps Package

8th February, 2025 (27 Comments)

Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet appears to have Finally begun to make their long-awaited top tier Full Fibre Max package available over CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which means you can now take symmetric speeds of 2.3Gbps for just £55 per month.

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Gov Expand CityFibre’s Project Gigabit Broadband Rollouts in 9 UK Contracts UPDATE2

6th February, 2025 (5 Comments)

The Government’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) has published contract modification notices for CityFibre’s state aid funded Project Gigabit broadband roll-outs across four regions – Hampshire (Lot 27), Suffolk (Lot 2), Cambridgeshire (Lot 5) and Norfolk (Lot 7). The changes increase the level of committed public funding and often also the contracted scope.

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CityFibre UK Completes Primary FTTP Broadband Build in Bracknell

4th February, 2025 (7 Comments)

Network access provider CityFibre, which has so far built their 2.5Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband ISP network to cover around 4 million UK premises, have today confirmed the completion of their “primary” £20m build in the Berkshire (England) town of Bracknell.

Vodafone UK Surge to 1.55 Million Broadband Users as Mobile Falls to 18.3M

4th February, 2025 (11 Comments)

Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has today published their Q3 FY25 financial results, which confirms that their fixed line broadband base grew by a new record to total 1.549 million customers (up by 72k in Q3 vs 50k in Q2). But their mobile base fell again to total 18.3m (down by -174k vs -93k in Q2), due entirely to a fall in their prepaid/PAYG base.

Toob Expand Cheap Gigabit Broadband to 16 New UK Locations and Add 150Mbps Plan

3rd February, 2025 (4 Comments)

Hampshire-based broadband ISP toob, which has already deployed a 900Mbps+ full fibre (FTTP) network across parts of Southern England, have announced that they’ve expanded the availability of their services – under their partnership with CityFibre – to add 16 cities and towns across seven UK counties. We’ve also spotted a new 150Mbps package.

Anger After CityFibre Builds UK Broadband Cabinet on Private Garden

23rd January, 2025 (36 Comments)

CityFibre has been criticised by a homeowner in Southend-on-Sea (Essex, England) after the operator accidentally built one of their new full fibre broadband ISP street cabinets, without permission, on a private garden. But then, after attempting to rectify their mistake, “left the garden in ruins – an unsafe and hazardous mess“.

CityFibre Improves Testing of UK Full Fibre Network with EXFO Exchange

22nd January, 2025 (2 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today become the latest broadband infrastructure builder to adopt EXFO‘s Exchange solution, which is a solution that will improve the company’s ability to conduct field-testing of their full fibre network (covering. 4 million premises across the UK) and so also save them time, as well as money.

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CityFibre UK Starts Project Gigabit Broadband Roll Out for Kent

20th January, 2025 (11 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has today announced that they’ve begun the roll-out phase of their £112 million state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract for Kent (Lot 29) in England. This will extend their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband ISP network to an additional 50,000+ premises in hard-to-reach rural areas.

Some Vodafone UK Broadband Users Struggling to Claim Switching Credit UPDATE

20th January, 2025 (1 Comment)

Telecoms provider Vodafone UK has confirmed that they’re “working hard to resolve” a problem that appears to be making it difficult for some of their new home broadband customers to claim the operators offer of up to £100 in “switching credit” for inward migrations. This is offered to those who incur Early Termination Charges (ETCs) when leaving their existing ISP.

Report Examines Customer Take-up of Openreach vs AltNet Broadband ISPs UPDATE

16th January, 2025 (4 Comments)

Strategic consultancy firm Eight Advisory has today launched a new Takeup Tracker, which examines the steady rise in take-up across the UK’s many alternative full fibre broadband (altnet) networks and compares it with that of incumbent operator Openreach (BT). The new tracker paints a mixed picture, albeit one with some positives to share.

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Broadband Users on CityFibre’s UK Network Suffer Nokia ONT Problems UPDATE2

9th January, 2025 (23 Comments)

Some broadband ISP customers on Cityfibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network, which covers 4 million UK premises, are currently experiencing ongoing connectivity problems due to an unspecified issue that seems to only be affecting those that have one of Nokia’s Optical Network Terminals (ONT) installed inside their building.

CityFibre Begins Project Gigabit Broadband Roll Out for Sussex

9th January, 2025 (4 Comments)

Network operator CityFibre has this morning announced that they’ve begun the roll-out phase of their £108m state-aid supported Project Gigabit contract for the West & East Sussex (Lot 16 & 1) area in England. This will extend their 10Gbps capable FTTP broadband ISP network to an additional 57,000 hard-to-reach rural premises.

CityFibre Suffers FTTP Broadband Network Outage in York UPDATE2

31st December, 2024 (37 Comments)

More than four thousand customers on CityFibre’s full fibre broadband network in the Northeast England city of York (Yorkshire and the Humber), which is used by lots of different ISPs (Vodafone, Zen Internet, iDNET, TalkTalk etc.), are this afternoon being affected by a major network outage.

BDUK Expand CityFibre’s Norfolk UK Project Gigabit Broadband Rollout

21st December, 2024 (9 Comments)

The Government’s Building Digital UK (BDUK) agency recently revealed that their £114m (state aid) Project Gigabit broadband roll-out contract for Norfolk (Lot 7), which was won by CityFibre in July 2023 (here), has seen its scope expanded. As a result the public funding has been boosted to £128.8m and the targeted premises for intervention has risen from 62,282 to 75,587.