CityFibre celebrates one year of Project Gigabit in Cambridgeshire

CityFibre has reached its one-year milestone in delivering faster and more reliable broadband to homes and businesses in harder-to-reach areas of the UK, as part of the UK Government’s Project Gigabit programme.

The first area to benefit from CityFibre’s Project Gigabit rollout was Grantchester in Cambridgeshire. The very first resident to connect was Josh Newman, a filmmaker and lecturer with a huge need for a speedy and more stable connection. His previous provider offered a mere 80Mbps download speed and 18Mbps upload, but thanks to CityFibre’s Project Gigabit rollout in the area Josh was able to upgrade to full fibre through Vodafoneⁱⁱ. Josh’s new 2.2Gbps service boasts 27 times faster download speeds and 122 times faster upload speeds than his previous connection and has since transformed the way his family uses the internet.