{"id":44999,"date":"2026-03-12T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T00:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=44999"},"modified":"2026-03-11T11:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T11:10:04","slug":"cityfibre-presentation-talks-wholesale-take-up-and-future-uk-broadband-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/03\/cityfibre-presentation-talks-wholesale-take-up-and-future-uk-broadband-plans.html","title":{"rendered":"CityFibre Presentation Talks Wholesale, Take-up and Future UK Broadband Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Strategy Director for 10Gbps capable full fibre UK broadband operator CityFibre<\/a>, Clayton Nash, has given a new lecture to members of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) that reveals some interesting details about the company’s network roll-out, wholesale pricing, take-up and future plans.<\/p>\n

The network, which has long aspired to reach up to 8 million UK premises (c.30% of the UK) and in late January 2026 suffered more redundancies (here<\/a>), currently covers 4.7 million UK premises (4.5m RFS) and recently revealed (here<\/a>) that their take-up had grown rapidly to total 848,000 customers (up by 64% from 518,000 at the same time last year).<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> The operator is owned by Antin Infrastructure Partners, Goldman Sachs, Mubadala Investment Company, Interogo Holding etc. The network is supported by UK ISPs such as Vodafone<\/a>, TalkTalk<\/a>, Zen Internet<\/a>, Sky Broadband<\/a> and more (local ISP availability does vary).<\/div>\n

The new lecture by Clayton Nash, which is available as a 1 hour+ YouTube video below, doesn’t say too much that we don’t already know about CityFibre<\/a>’s plans. But it does include some information that we haven’t really seen being articulated much in public before and is thus worth watching.<\/p>\n

For example, Clayton’s slides state that CityFibre<\/a>’s wholesale full fibre (FTTP<\/a>) broadband products are around “40%<\/em>” cheaper than Openreach<\/a>’s comparable products, which varies across the tiers. At speeds of 160Mbps, CityFibre is shown to be 24% cheaper, while at 1000Mbps (1Gbps) it’s 37% and for Multi-Gigabit this falls back 25%.<\/p>\n

However, it’s also worth remembering that CityFibre’s tiers also offer symmetric speeds, while Openreach<\/a>’s uploads are currently significantly slower, so cost isn’t the only factor to consider. The lecture also offers an interesting overview of how much network capacity they’ll need in the future.<\/p>\n

\"CityFibre-Slide-Wholesale-Pricing\"<\/p>\n

\"CityFibre-Slide-Network-Bandwidth-Future\"<\/p>\n

The lecture also touches on customer take-up, which shows that CityFibre is now home to “above 900,000 customers<\/em>” and will “hit a million fairly soon<\/em>“. Clayton says CityFibre currently has a take-up rate of about 22% (they’re using the RFS premises figure for this), which they say compares will with the c.15% take-up at many other altnets (CityFibre currently expects to exceed 30% penetration by the end of 2026).<\/p>\n

\"CityFibre-Slide-Premises-Passed-and-Takeup\"<\/p>\n

On the subject of consolidation, which recently saw CityFibre lose out to VMO2’s parents in the battle for Netomnia<\/a> (here<\/a>), Clayton confirms that the operator still “intend to kind of work<\/em>” their way through the above list of alternative networks and “pick up a number of these altnet entities<\/em>” in order to help them reach “8 to 10 to 12 million homes<\/em>” in the future.<\/p>\n

You can view the full lecture from the IET Anglian Coastal Network below.<\/p>\n