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Several customers of UK ISP Sky Broadband have now informed ISPreview that the provider’s support staff have recently notified them about the launch, next month, of new WiFi Max hardware. This appears to reflect both the Sky Max Hub router and the Sky Max Pod WiFi extenders.
The information could be seen as an update or complement to our prior news (here), which indicated that the first large-scale customer trials of Sky Broadband’s new CityFibre powered FTTP packages are predicted to begin next month (May 2025) – possibly alongside a soft launch of related packages.
We have previously suggested that the new CityFibre plans were almost certain to require a new router (the current Max Hub would struggle to deliver CF’s top speeds). But Sky’s support staff have also been indicating to those on Openreach based FTTP lines that the new kit will be made available to them too (it’s unclear if this will extend to FTTC / G.fast users).
Officially, Sky cannot yet confirm a date for any of this, but they have promised to share more information soon. The current suite of Hubs will also remain available for customers, so it may only be certain packages or add-ons that can benefit from the new kit at launch. Speaking of which, we do not yet know for certain if Sky will be launching faster plans than 1Gbps at launch, but both Openreach and CF are able to offer such tiers at wholesale (up to 1.8Gbps download on Openreach and 2.5Gbps on CF – the latter being symmetric).