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Wed, 6/04/2022 - 10:28
CityFibre has wrapped up its £42m primary build in Milton Keynes, marking its first completed project in England.
Construction began in March 2018 and CityFibre has since laid 1,000km of fibre infrastructure to cover 90,000 premises, around 90% of those in the city. CityFibre will now densify and infill the last remaining areas.
Milton Keynes was the first location addressed by CityFibre and Vodafone’s strategic partnership in 2018 and residents can now access full fibre broadband from Vodafone, TalkTalk, Zen, Fibrehop and IDNet.
A forthcoming report by the consultancy Hatch will show that Milton Keynes stands to benefit from over £560m in productivity gains and £123m from a widened workforce over a 15-year period due to its new digital infrastructure.
Greg Mesch, CEO at CityFibre (pictured), said: “As we complete our rollout in Milton Keynes, we leave behind a city fully equipped for the data age. With the UK’s finest digital infrastructure under its streets, its citizens, businesses, and public institutions are only just beginning to tap into the huge benefits that are to come.”
