Vodafone Gigafast now live in 15 UK towns and cities

Fibre can be a mucky business when a telco is working for the government and telecom has suffered losses for its public service.

Gigafast Broadband now covers 360,000* more homes in Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool.

Gigabit speed broadband is now available in 15 UK towns and cities and is scheduled to be made available in 3 million homes and businesses across the UK in the next year.

Vodafoneโ€™s Gigafast Broadband service is delivered via multiple partnersโ€™ infrastructure.

Working with Openreach

The latest locations to go live are the result of a commercial deal with Openreach, BTโ€™s wholesale access arm, agreed last November. 

The service is initially be available to 400,000 premises across the three cities which will rise to more than 500,000 premises by mid-2021 as Openreach builds out its infrastructure.  

CityFibre contract

The first 12 towns and cities that gained Gigabit Broadband were due to its long-standing contract with CityFibre, an alternative provider of wholesale fibre network infrastructure.
 
Vodafoneโ€™s full-fibre broadband gives users download speeds on average of 900Mbps, which is not a gigabit, but still is up to 14 times faster than the average fixed broadband service in the UK.

*This figure has been revised from the original 400,00 at Vodafoneโ€™s request.