CityFibre has announced that the roll-out of its independent full fibre network in Milton Keynes is now complete and has a reach of roughly 90,000 homes and covers 90% of addressable properties.
Milton Keynes finishing its journey to become a Gigabit City is a huge moment and a fantastic achievement for all involved. With CityFibre’s project now complete, households, businesses and public sector sites across MK will be able to benefit from the best possible internet connections.
The legacy left by this project is just beginning. The world class digital infrastructure now in place will keep Milton Keynes at the cutting edge of technological change and underpin our growth and success for generations to come.
Ben Everitt, MP for Milton Keynes North
It is excellent news that CityFibre has completed its rollout of the Fibre-to-the-Premises programme, reaching 90,000 premises across Milton Keynes.
Having access to fast and reliable broadband in our home, work and community is increasingly important as we move forward and I am grateful for CityFibre’s role in making this possible.
Iain Stewart, MP for Milton Keynes South
So has CityFibre achieved what it says it has? Well it looks that way since our database is recording 90,047 premises where CityFibre FTTP is available in the unitary authority that is Milton Keynes. We don’t have an exact split for this figure between homes and businesses but since we don’t count metro network deployment in business parks its fair to say that a very high percentage of the 90,047 is residential properties. Also we do not count those postcodes where CityFibre thinks it is a private road and a wayleave is needed, or if they say the network is built and no retailer available yet, or is still on the way. Tuesday saw us do a sweep across Milton Keynes and while CityFibre are saying the build is complete there are still locations that look like they flip to being able to order in the coming months e.g. as wayleaves and final snagging to resolve on the way messaging takes place.
The 90% of addressable properties is a harder one to verify as we do not know what CityFibre considers as addressable and how they define the boundary of the area. At the simplest level using the ONS unitary authority code E06000042 for Milton Keynes and the ONS definitions for rural and urban we get the following: 124,884 premises in total and 81.8% of those are urban. This means the urban part of Milton Keynes is around 100,000 premises and therefore 90,047 premises is around 90% of the urban part of Milton Keynes. When you add the other FTTP providers present in Milton Keynes the urban area has FTTP coverage of 94.27% and rural is lower at 69.58%.
Our figure of 124,884 premises in Milton Keynes is our best count as of today, on Tuesday it was 249 premises lower due to finding some more new build premises and increases in the premises count in other previously released postcodes. This sort of change is happening all the time in our database i.e. one of the daily jobs is to pick an area and look for new build, but as we knew Milton Keynes was on the agenda it was the turn of MK postcodes. We believe for CityFibre we are within 2 to 3 weeks of the leading edge of the roll-out and any differences between us and CityFibre are down to things like wayleaves. For Openreach we believe are around 4 to 5 weeks behind, and we did spend some time digging into areas that may overlap with CityFibre with very little to show for it.
Milton Keynes as a local authority is running at 90.09% FTTP coverage on the morning of 6th April 2022 and this includes a sweep for Openreach and CityFibre FTTP completed on Tuesday. The last public update on Saturday 2nd April was lower at 89.9%. Alt-nets such as CityFibre, OFNL and Hyperoptic (CityFibre is by far the largest) cover 74.5% of the local authority area and Openreach has its own footprint of 32.93%.
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Mr Saffron – Is there any chance for add map showing 4G and 5G mobile broadband?
Sorry to put a dampener on the celebrations but there are many residential areas shown on the map above that have no fibre and no sign of it coming anytime soon.
It is amazing that, even in this urban area, there are now a number of Starlink “dishys” sprouting up above the rooftops. There is even one just by the railway line north of Bow Brickhill – within a a few yards of the Red Bull F1 facility!
It has the highest rate of full fibre of any urban area apart from Hull I believe. It’s nearly three times that of the as a whole and over one and a half times higher availability than the capital.
I’m going to need a smaller violin for this one.
@shirvlleg We are confident the map is good, so if there are significant areas that are wrong then given a road name or postcode we will investigate and apply corrections where needed.
News that a provider is claiming 90,000 and them falling far short of that is more news than us agreeing with them
Milton Keynes seems to get the best investment from every telecoms company, whats so attractive about it?
Chrysalis for a long time MK had really bad internet connections. But we didn’t sit back, we did something about it. Formed an action group MKBAG and pestered and got under the skin of the internet suppliers in those days BT and Virgin. Virgin didn’t want to know so we hit BT hard and got results. But we worked with BT and got a reputation for great feedback and great trialists. So now when companies want to establish a system they come to us because we have a great reputation for cooperation.
We could of course just have sat at home and moaned but instead we did the opposite and got results.