Vodafone on Tuesday picked CityFibre to provide fibre connectivity to base stations and potentially some of its enterprise customers in York.
It is the first deal announced as part of a master services agreement (MSA) between the two companies.
Th e MSA sets out standard contractual terms under which CityFibre can supply fibre to parts of Vodafone’s network. As well as backhaul, and select corporate customers, Vodafone may also contract CityFibre to provide interexchange connectivity.
"This contract from Vodafone marks yet another important milestone for CityFibre, following two years of engagement and negotiations with this important new partner. As an approved supplier to Vodafone, CityFibre now has the opportunity to bring enhanced pure fibre connectivity to Vodafone’s customers," said CityFibre CEO Greg Mesch, in a statement.
"Furthermore, the addition of Vodafone to our partner ecosystem means that CityFibre has now secured trading relationships with the majority of Tier 1 service providers in the business and mobile connectivity markets," he said.
CityFibre operates 618km of local access networks service 1,017 customers in 61 U.K. towns in Cities.
In September, the company was awarded a £5.6 million contract that will see it expand its Edinburgh fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network by 100km.
