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pricing will encourage adoption.The operator has offered fixed broadband services to consumer and businesses for a number of years using
connectivity to at least one million premises by 2021, a figure which could eventually rise to five million.Vodafone GigafastA successful
pilot was staged in Milton Keynes during the summer and on Friday 14 September, Vodafone will open pre-orders with a view to installation in
homes in Milton Keynes currently have access to the network, but it is expected that all of the city will be covered by 2020.Vodafone and
CityFibre will cover parts of Aberdeen and Peterborough later this year, with Coventry, Edinburgh, Huddersfield and Stirling set to follow
in 2019.CityFibre is one of several alternative network providers (altnets) which are deploying full fibre infrastructure across the UK
More traditional providers Openreach, Virgin Media and TalkTalk are among the others to have FTTP plans in the works.
