{"id":20978,"date":"2020-03-06T07:43:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T07:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=20978"},"modified":"2021-03-11T14:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:17:04","slug":"cityfibre-confirm-62-uk-areas-for-4bn-ftth-broadband-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/03\/cityfibre-confirm-62-uk-areas-for-4bn-ftth-broadband-rollout.html","title":{"rendered":"Cityfibre Confirm 62 UK Areas for \u00a34bn FTTH Broadband Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full fibre builder Cityfibre<\/a> has today confirmed that an additional 36 UK cities and towns have been added to their 1Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH<\/a>) broadband roll-out programme (total of 62), which working with ISPs like Vodafone<\/a> and TalkTalk<\/a> aims to eventually cover 8 million premises by 2025 or a bit later.<\/p>\n

In case anybody has forgotten, Cityfibre<\/a>’s project originally started in late 2018 (here<\/a>) – supported by UK ISP partner Vodafone<\/a> and substantial investment from Goldman Sachs – with a plan to spend \u00a32.5bn on deploying their 1Gbps FTTH<\/a> network to reach a “minimum<\/em>” of 1 million homes and businesses across 12 cities and towns by the end of 2021 (c.\u00a3500m Phase One), then 5 million premises in 37 cities and towns by the end of 2025 (c.20% of the current UK broadband market).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Cityfibre<\/a> aim to cover 85%+ of premises in each location on their list. Most of their builds are based off existing Dark Fibre networks, which until now were often only used to serve public sector and business sites.<\/div>\n

Since then the operator has been busy ramping-up their civil engineering build across their Phase One cities. On top of that they recently spent \u00a3200m (cash) to acquired TalkTalk<\/a>’s FibreNation network (here<\/a>), which had already largely covered the city of York (c.50,000 premises) and was busy deploying to several large towns (Dewsbury, Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon).<\/p>\n

As a result of the above deal Cityfibre raised their planned investment to \u00a34bn and aims to reach 8 million UK premises (c.30% of the market). Vodafone<\/a> has also relaxed their exclusivity deal (they now get 12 months in each location) so that TalkTalk<\/a> and other UK ISPs can hop onto the new network (Sky Broadband<\/a> also exists but only under the FibreNation footprint – pending talks).<\/p>\n

The recent changes have meant that the operator needed to update their plans and today’s announcement represents the next phase of that process. Essentially Cityfibre has added another 36 cities and towns to their confirmed roll-out plan (many more will be added in the future), which brings the total number of confirmed roll-out locations so far to 62 (reflecting 5 million homes<\/strong>).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Cityfibre has suggested that, outside London, their plans may eventually require up to 7,000 engineers.<\/div>\n

Greg Mesch, CEO at Cityfibre, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Britain\u2019s need for a world-class digital infrastructure has never been greater which is why we stand firmly behind the Government\u2019s plan for nationwide coverage by 2025. Full fibre will play a critical role in levelling-up the UK and so today we are accelerating our plans, bringing full fibre to more towns and cities, even faster.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oliver Dowden MP, DCMS Secretary of State, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We want to make sure every corner of the country benefits from world-class, gigabit speed broadband, so it is great to see CityFibre expanding out into 36 more towns and cities.<\/p>\n

We are working closely with industry to push ahead with nationwide rollout and investing \u00a35 billion so the hardest-to-reach areas aren\u2019t left behind.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A related process is now underway to award \u00a31.5bn in new construction contracts by the summer 2020 (finding enough skilled engineers is a particularly difficult job these days) and network build is being brought forward in the “vast majority of these towns and cities<\/em>” to start the end of the year. At present Cityfibre has network construction underway in 16 towns and cities, with Gigabit-speed services live in 11.<\/span><\/p>\n

However Cityfibre’s effort has also come under increasing pressure from rivals. On the one hand we have Virgin Media<\/a>, which is in the process of upgrading their existing network to offer 1Gbps speeds and that is due to complete by 2021 (here<\/a>). On the other hand we have Openreach<\/a>’s (BT<\/a>) ambition to make FTTP<\/a> available to 15 million premises by around 2025.<\/p>\n

Not to mention lots of alternative network providers, such as Hyperoptic<\/a>, G.Network<\/a> and others that are building in some of the same urban areas. A few of these may overbuild Cityfibre’s new network, although they all have different pros and cons. Suffice to say that there’s plenty of competition, although that will also make it harder for some operators to attract subscribers on to specific networks (expect winners and losers from this race).<\/p>\n

At the time of writing Vodafone still offers the only related Gigafast Broadband<\/a><\/strong> packages on Cityfibre’s network for homes, which is priced from \u00a328 per month for an unlimited 100Mbps (symmetric speed) service on an 18 month contract, including free installation (you also get a good wireless router). The plans rise to \u00a340 per month for their top 900Mbps (Gigabit) tier and we’re currently waiting to see TalkTalk’s package.<\/p>\n

New towns and cities announced for full fibre deployment (36):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Barnsley (\u00a332m)
\n\u2022 Bath
\n\u2022 Blackpool (\u00a360m)
\n\u2022 Bognor Regis
\n\u2022 Bracknell (\u00a320m)
\n\u2022 Brighton & Hove (\u00a380m)
\n\u2022 Bury St Edmunds (\u00a38m)
\n\u2022 Chatham (part of the \u00a340m Medway build)
\n\u2022 Cheltenham (\u00a330m)
\n\u2022 Chester (\u00a323m)
\n\u2022 Chichester
\n\u2022 Christchurch
\n\u2022 Crawley (\u00a323m)
\n\u2022 Dundee (\u00a340m)
\n\u2022 Eastbourne (\u00a326m)
\n\u2022 Gateshead
\n\u2022 Gillingham (part of the \u00a340m Medway build)
\n\u2022 Glasgow (\u00a3?)
\n\u2022 Gloucester (\u00a331m)
\n\u2022 Halifax c.51,000 premises
\n\u2022 Horsham
\n\u2022 Littlehampton
\n\u2022 Maidenhead (\u00a314m)
\n\u2022 Middlesbrough (\u00a342m)
\n\u2022 Norwich (\u00a350m) c.100,000 premises (2.5 year roll-out – starting end of 2020)
\n\u2022 Nottingham (\u00a3117m)
\n\u2022 Poole
\n\u2022 Portsmouth (\u00a332m)
\n\u2022 Preston (\u00a330m)
\n\u2022 Reading (\u00a358m)
\n\u2022 Sheffield (\u00a3115m)
\n\u2022 Solihull
\n\u2022 Stoke on Trent
\n\u2022 Weston-super-Mare (\u00a322m)
\n\u2022 Wolverhampton (\u00a350m)
\n\u2022 Worcester (\u00a325m – \u00a335m)<\/p>\n

SEPT 2020 Addition: Renfrewshire (\u00a340m) – Paisley, Renfrew and Johnstone.<\/p>\n

OCT 2020 Addition: Plymouth (\u00a352m).<\/p>\n

NOV 2020 Addition: North Tyneside (\u00a350m).<\/p>\n

NOV 2020 Addition (via FibreNation): Bolton (\u00a337m)<\/p>\n

DEC 2020 Addition (via FibreNation): Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon (\u00a346m combined)<\/p>\n

JAN 2021 Addition: Sunderland (\u00a362m)<\/p>\n

Towns and cities previously announced (26):<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Aberdeen (\u00a340m)
\n\u2022 Adur & Worthing (\u00a325m)
\n\u2022 Batley – 6,000 premises by end of 2022
\n\u2022 Bournemouth (\u00a338m) – Also owns a legacy FTTH<\/a> network to c.20k premises
\n\u2022 Bradford (\u00a375m)
\n\u2022 Cambridge (\u00a320m) – c.60,000 premises
\n\u2022 Coventry (\u00a360m)
\n\u2022 Derby (\u00a345m)
\n\u2022 Dewsbury (\u00a340m) – 61,000 premises by end of 2022
\n\u2022 Doncaster (\u00a325m)
\n\u2022 Edinburgh (\u00a3100m)
\n\u2022 Huddersfield (\u00a330m)
\n\u2022 Inverness (\u00a320m)
\n\u2022 Ipswich (\u00a324m)
\n\u2022 Leeds (\u00a3120m)
\n\u2022 Leicester (\u00a380m)
\n\u2022 Lowestoft (\u00a314m)
\n\u2022 Milton Keynes (\u00a340m)
\n\u2022 Newcastle-upon-Tyne (\u00a369m) – c.103,000 premises
\n\u2022 Northampton (\u00a340m)
\n\u2022 Peterborough (\u00a330m)
\n\u2022 Rotherham (\u00a329m)
\n\u2022 Slough (\u00a324m)
\n\u2022 Southend (\u00a335m) \u2013 c.100,000 premises
\n\u2022 Stirling (\u00a310m)
\n\u2022 Swindon (\u00a340m)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At this point our eagle-eyed readers might notice that a few locations are missing from the list that Cityfibre originally announced in 2018, including Bristol, Harrogate, Manchester, Southampton and Wakefield. Quite why all of these weren’t confirmed today is unclear, but we can guess at some of the reasons and they may be confirmed in future updates (we eventually expect about 100 cities and towns to be included).<\/p>\n

For example, Harrogate, York, Knaresborough and Ripon all come under the FibreNation network and the merger of that is on-going (i.e. we should see those three confirmed in the future). Admittedly Dewsbury also belongs in that club, but Cityfibre had already confirmed that location last year and so they couldn’t very well remove it this time around.<\/p>\n

We’re less certain why Bristol, Manchester, Southampton and Wakefield have been missed off the list, although some of those already have three Gigabit broadband providers building (e.g. in Southampton there’s toob<\/a>, Virgin Media<\/a> and Openreach<\/a>). Realistically it is significantly more difficult for a fourth altnet provider to enter an area with that many players already present.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 8:41am<\/strong><\/p>\n

A little bit of related news has just come in. VolkerSmart Technologies (VolkerHighways) has just secured the \u00a324m civil engineering contract to build Cityfibre’s FTTH network in Ipswich, which they said would be completed by the autumn of 2022. The works will include excavating 300,000 metres of new trenches around the town and installing ducting, before blowing, splicing and finally testing the fibre optic cables.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 9:33am<\/strong><\/p>\n

We have sought a bit of clarification from Cityfibre on a few of their targets. Apparently the initial expectation is still to cover at least 1 million premises by the end of 2021, while they hope to have “substantially completed<\/em>” the 8 million by the end of 2025 (i.e. the roll-out may go on for longer than 2025, depending upon how they define “substantially<\/em>“).<\/p>\n

In addition, they confirmed that Harrogate, York, Knaresborough and Ripon have not yet been added to the plan as the FibreNation deal has yet to formally complete, but we can expect that by around the end of this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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