Vodafone UK has started offering Gigafast Broadband, a new full fibre home broadband service with speeds of 1Gbps, to 50 families in Milton Keynes, before it is made widely available across the city.
Vodafone Gigafast Broadband runs over fibre optic cables at every stage of the connection to the Internet, instead of using old copper-based wires. This means customers will enjoy a faster and more reliable broadband service. Vodafone Gigafast Broadband will enable family members in a busy household to go online at the same time, using multiple devices.
Vodafone claims that with the new Gigafast Broadband, a family of four with Vodafone Gigafast Broadband, these activities can be carried out simultaneously:
- One family member can stream a live event on television in Ultra High Definition (Ultra HD)
- In a different room, another family member can stream a favourite movie or TV series in Ultra HD on a separate device
- The rest of the family can play an online virtual reality game
- A host of connected devices in the background keeps the home safe and secure.
Nick Jeffery, CEO, Vodafone UK
Full fibre is vital to our digital economy and to the UK’s future as a digital leader, yet just 3% of UK premises currently have access to it. That’s why we are offering Vodafone Gigafast Broadband and making it available on a mass scale, reaching a million UK homes by 2021.
