Rochdale-based UK ISP Zen Internet appears to have Finally begun to make their long-awaited top tier Full Fibre Max package available over CityFibre’s national Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network, which means you can now take symmetric speeds of 2.3Gbps for just £55 per month.
Just to be clear about this, the new package is currently only available via parts of CityFibre’s network that have been upgraded to support XGS-PON technology (here) and that means availability is quite limited. At the last update in October 2024, CityFibre informed ISPreview that they were “on track to double our XGS-PON footprint to 40% by the end of the year” (RFS premises) – out of c.4 million UK premises passed.
The package itself attracts an 18-month minimum contract term with free setup, a pledge of no mid-contract price rises and Zen will also throw in one of Amazon’s eero Pro 6E routers, although we really wish they’d bundle a more professional / advanced user focused device with this sort of tier (e.g. the eero kit is seriously lacking in the ports department). You can optionally pay £10 a month extra for the eero Max 7 Pro, but that’s still a pricey compromise device.
The new speed tier was originally due to launch in September 2024 (here), but it ended up taking a little bit longer than that to arrive, although we aren’t sure of the exact date they finally made the 2.3Gbps option available (oddly, Zen’s pre-registration page for it is still live). Credits to Gary for spotting.