{"id":35589,"date":"2023-09-04T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=35589"},"modified":"2023-09-04T08:25:56","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T07:25:56","slug":"cityfibre-pauses-multiple-uk-fttp-builds-linked-to-kier-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/09\/cityfibre-pauses-multiple-uk-fttp-builds-linked-to-kier-group.html","title":{"rendered":"CityFibre Pauses Multiple UK FTTP Builds Linked to Kier Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> has confirmed to ISPreview that they&#8217;ve recently taken the decision to exit a number of UK full fibre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) broadband contracts with build partners for a variety of reasons. One of those is known to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kier Group<\/a>, which held various contracts for places such as Weston-Super-Mare, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath and Worcester etc.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The operator&#8217;s 10Gbps capable <strong>Fibre-to-the-Premises<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/fttp\">FTTP<\/a>) network currently covers 3 million UK premises (up from 2.5m in January 2023) and 2.6 million of those are considered to be \u2018Ready For Service\u2019 by a supporting broadband ISP (up from 2.2m).<\/p>\n<div class=\"bq2\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> is owned by Antin Infrastructure Partners, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Mubadala Investment Company and Interogo Holding.<\/div>\n<p>All of this forms part of their ambition to cover up to 8 million premises (funded by c.\u00a32.4bn in equity and c.\u00a34.9bn debt) \u2013 across over 285 cities, towns and villages (c.30% of the UK) \u2013 by the end of 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2021\/03\/cityfibre-name-279-uk-areas-for-4bn-gigabit-broadband-rollout.html\">here<\/a>). The work is also being supported by various UK ISPs, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/tt\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">TalkTalk<\/a>, Giganet and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/zen_internet\" target=\"_blank\">Zen Internet<\/a> etc.<\/p>\n<p>However, it&#8217;s fair to say that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/cityfibre\" target=\"_blank\">CityFibre<\/a> has &#8211; not unlike many other network builders &#8211; had somewhat of a rocky 2023. The operator, under pressure from rising costs, competition and other factors, like the need to generate strong take-up, began the year by announcing hundreds of job losses (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/02\/cityfibre-restructures-to-keep-uk-fttp-plan-on-track-cuts-400-jobs.html\">here<\/a>). More recently, the operator&#8217;s build in Norwich has been paused after their local build partner, <a href=\"https:\/\/telecgroup.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telec Networks<\/a>, called in the administrators (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2023\/08\/full-fibre-broadband-builders-telec-networks-calls-in-administrators.html\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At around the same time as Telec was getting into trouble last month, we also started hearing reports of CityFibre&#8217;s work being suspended in other parts of the UK too. The full picture remains unclear, but some checking revealed that the biggest pauses seemed to be taking place in locations like Weston-Super-Mare, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bath and Worcester &#8211; these are largely the domain of build contracts with the <strong>Kier Group<\/strong>, worth up to \u00a382m in total (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kier.co.uk\/media\/news-releases\/kier-awarded-up-to-82m-cityfibre-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bq1\"><p><strong>A CityFibre spokesperson told ISPreview:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Our rollout is progressing well towards our 8m target with over 3m premises now passed by our network and we\u2019re on track to deliver 1m Ready For Service homes for our customers this year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As would be expected with a programme of this scale, we continuously review the prioritisation of our rollout locations to take account of factors including competitive rollouts, build partner performance, and deployment costs. As part of that process, we&#8217;re pausing some local builds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Alongside this activity we are continuing to align our rollout with our increasing participation in government\u2019s Project Gigabit programme, a project in which we are an integral delivery partner, and we are actively exploring a wide range of commercial opportunities to expand our footprint further.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The decision to cancel or change a build partner is one that can often cause significant delays to related projects, and the larger the project, the longer it may take to resolve and restart. CityFibre will now have to find and appoint a new construction firm to replace Kier and Telec (as well as any other firms they may have exited), which in our experience is a process that typically takes up to around a year (sometimes longer, sometimes less).<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, CityFibre have declined to disclose more specific details about the current situation, which isn&#8217;t surprising given that there will no doubt be various commercial and legal considerations. The good news is that the operator remains confident of both their roll-out targets and that they&#8217;ll be able to find replacement contractors, with the first of these paused projects expected to be restarted within the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the level of disruption involved means that there will surely be some significant slowdown in their rate of build, although the operator has previously signalled that one way of overcoming that could be by acquiring a number of rival networks as part of a consolidation drive.<\/p>\n<p>However, consolidation is also a complex and expensive business, due to the many differences that can exist between networks and technologies. But for now, it remains to be seen how successful CityFibre will be in this regard and whether it will be enough to help keep them on target. Meanwhile, locals in the affected areas will have to resume thumb twiddling.<\/p>\n<p>We did ask Kier to comment too, but they have yet to provide a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CityFibre has confirmed to ISPreview that they&#8217;ve recently taken the decision to exit a number of UK full fibre (FTTP) broadband contracts with build partners for a variety of reasons. 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