{"id":29317,"date":"2021-11-22T12:59:29","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=29317"},"modified":"2021-11-22T13:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:02:06","slug":"zen-internet-set-to-extend-cityfibre-fttp-availability-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/11\/zen-internet-set-to-extend-cityfibre-fttp-availability-nationwide.html","title":{"rendered":"Zen Internet Set to Extend CityFibre FTTP Availability Nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Founder and Chairman of UK broadband ISP Zen Internet<\/a>, Richard Tang, appears to have confirmed that they will be able to connect into 100% of the locally connected on-net footprint for CityFibre<\/a> by the end of this financial year (September 2022) – expanding the availability of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a>) products.<\/p>\n

Just to recap. CityFibre<\/a>’s wider \u00a34bn<\/strong> investment programme has already covered 1 million UK premises with their gigabit FTTP<\/a> broadband lines and they aim to have 8 million “substantially completed<\/em>” – across 285 cities, towns and villages (c.30% of the UK) – by the end of 2025 (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Zen Internet<\/a>, which until recently had traditionally preferred to only work with Openreach<\/a>, officially joined CityFibre’s network as one of the first partner ISPs – alongside Vodafone<\/a> and a few others – back in January 2021. Initially they were only available across part of CF’s network, including Newcastle, Leicester, Ipswich and Worthing, but they’ve now started to launch in additional cities (i.e. Edinburgh, Bolton, Cambridge, Stirling, Bradford, Inverness, Derby, and Milton Keynes).<\/p>\n

By the end of this month, we also expect them to be offering a full fibre package across CityFibre’s growing network footprint in Huddersfield, Leeds, Doncaster, and Maidenhead too. However, industry sources have long informed us that some ISPs would eventually be available across all of CF’s UK deployments, with TalkTalk<\/a>, Vodafone<\/a> and Zen Internet most often being mentioned as being among the first expected to achieve this goal.<\/p>\n

The situation was largely confirmed this month, after Vodafone revealed that they would become available across CityFibre’s entire nationwide footprint by April 2022 (here<\/a>) and TalkTalk<\/a> will soon follow. During a speech to the LINX 114 event in London this month, Richard Tang similarly appeared to confirm that they also expected to be 100% on-net with CityFibre by September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n