From spring 2020, Vodafone will start making Vodafone Gigafast Broadband available to customers in Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool on the Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network that Openreach is building.
Vodafone states that its Gigafast Broadband has speeds of up to 900Mbps, and the service will be available to 500,000 premises in these locations by mid-2021 under phase one of this strategic agreement. The agreement includes the option for further phases that could extend coverage to other places.
Vodafone Gigafast Broadband is currently live in Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Coventry, Huddersfield, Milton Keynes, Peterborough and Stirling.
“Vodafone is committed to a full fibre future and to creating the infrastructure Britain needs to compete and win in the digital era,” commented Nick Jeffery, chief executive officer, Vodafone UK. “This initiative with Openreach builds on our existing commitments with CityFibre and underlines our belief in the power of digital technology to connect people for a better future and unlock economic growth for the UK.”
Clive Selley Openreach’s chief executive added, “Our full fibre broadband network already covers more than 1.9 million premises in the UK, and Openreach engineers are building it to another home or business every 26 seconds. We’re keen to upgrade customers as quickly as possible to this new, ultrafast, future-proof platform, so we’re proud that Vodafone’s placing its confidence in Openreach to deliver a great broadband experience for their customers. We’re determined to be the partner of choice for all communications providers and we’ll do that by offering the best connectivity and service with the widest possible coverage throughout the country.”
In addition to full fibre, Vodafone has already introduced 5G in Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool as part of its wider nationwide roll-out of the new mobile broadband standard.
