Thursday, 12^th June, UK: VodafoneThree has today announced a new strategic wholesale agreement with London’s largest full fibre network, Community Fibre. The partnership will provide access to Community Fibre’s network, allowing VodafoneThree, under the Vodafone brand (as the converged brand in the VodafoneThree portfolio) to offer full fibre broadband to up to 1.3 million homes across the capital, and become London’s largest full fibre supplier.

Community Fibre joins a roster of existing partners - including CityFibre and Openreach. Vodafone already had the largest full fibre footprint exceeding 20 million homes and businesses. When adding Three’s Fixed Wireless Access offering with fibre-like speeds, this number further grows to over 22.5 million, reaching more homes and businesses than any other broadband provider in the UK.

From today, Vodafone will begin offering its home broadband services to Three mobile customers, allowing those who previously took Fixed Wireless Access to upgrade to full fibre broadband.

With Community Fibre’s network providing symmetrical speeds of up to 2.5Gbps in London, the partnership will significantly enhance Vodafone’s current broadband proposition in the capital, while also complementing the brand’s existing mobile network, which is already recognised as London’s Best Network by NET CHECK*.

The agreement represents another significant step forward in VodafoneThree’s mission to offer 100% of UK homes and businesses fibre, or fibre like speeds, challenging the market and helping more customers get the speed and choice they deserve.

Max Taylor, CEO VodafoneThree, said: “Through our strong network of partnerships, we’ve built the biggest full fibre footprint in the country – all part of our commitment to bring fast, reliable broadband to as many households and businesses as possible. We’re delighted to be partnering with Community Fibre, a company that shares our ambition to improve the customer experience, and are looking forward to launching in the market this summer.”

Community Fibre, London’s largest and fastest full fibre broadband network, will benefit from VodafoneThree’s scale and reach, expanding its wholesale capabilities and customer base across the capital. The partnership marks a major milestone in Community Fibre's growth strategy and reflects the increasing demand for ultrafast, reliable broadband services across the UK. By partnering with VodafoneThree, Community Fibre gains access to a broader customer base, driving expansion and strengthening the company’s position as a key player in the wholesale market.

Olaf Swantee, Chairman of Community Fibre said “We are delighted that VodafoneThree has selected Community Fibre as a strategic partner for the expansion of their full fibre broadband network in London. We are confident that our excellent reputation for fast, quality installations and reliable connectivity will support VodafoneThree’s growing reputation for excellent customer service. This deal helps cement Community Fibre’s position as the leading alternative fibre network in London.”

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Notes to Editors

*Vodafone was named London’s Best Network on the basis of NET CHECK’s 2024 measurement report of objective mobile network performance in Greater London. This test used the latest commercially available equipment to test the performance of four mobile networks in October/November 2024. Vodafone’s network was tested in a range of voice and data service categories including accessibility, reliability, speech quality and speed tests using customer applications such as browsing of popular web pages, video streaming and more. NET CHECK revealed that Vodafone ranked first, ahead of other UK mobile providers in combined voice and data services, and first in data services specifically.

 

About VodafoneThree

VodafoneThree is the UK’s largest mobile network operator serving the fixed and mobile market, formed following the merger of Vodafone UK and Three UK in June 2025.

Through an unprecedented £11 billion investment, VodafoneThree will build the UK’s best network. The network will deliver reliable, quality connectivity to all nations and regions, creating as many as 13,000 jobs and laying a digital foundation for the country’s growth ambitions. VodafoneThree is the only mobile network operator with a fully funded, regulated and guaranteed network build plan, reaching 99.95% population coverage by 2034. From big cities to small towns, and everywhere in between, the company’s mission is to build the UK’s best network.

VodafoneThree is a private company, 51% owned by Vodafone and 49% owned by CK Hutchison Holdings. It encompasses all businesses and assets, including Vodafone UK, Three UK, VOXI Mobile, SMARTY and Talkmobile.

 

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About Vodafone

Vodafone UK is a technology communications company that connects people, businesses and devices to help our customers benefit from digital innovation. Our services span mobile, fixed-line connections, home and office broadband, and the Internet of Things (IoT).  

 

We have a strong track record as a tech pioneer, making the UK’s first mobile phone call, sending the first text message, and making the UK’s first live holographic call using 5G in 2018. We were also the first to start carrying live 5G traffic from a site in Salford, Greater Manchester. As of June 2021, we have 5G in 670 locations across Europe - 318 in the UK and 352 across Germany, Spain, Italy and Ireland. Our 4G network coverage currently reaches over 99% of the UK population.  

 

Today, Vodafone serves more than 20 million unique full fibre premises in the UK through partnerships with CityFibre and Openreach.

 

About Community Fibre 

Community Fibre is London’s best quality broadband, providing fast, affordable, sustainable connections for everyone.  It has passed 1.3 million homes across and around the capital, with more than 185,000 London-based businesses within 200 metres of Community Fibre’s network footprint. Using the UK’s best broadband technology, it is bringing Gigafast broadband at unbeatable speeds and prices to the capital, helping Londoners do more and be more. Community Fibre also operates in parts of Surrey and Sussex under its own brand, where prior to May 2024 it was operating as Box Broadband.

As the Best Internet Provider network on Trustpilot, commanding an ‘Excellent’ rated service with more than 57,000 5-star reviews (June 2025), Community Fibre offers speeds of up to 5 Gbps for consumers – up to 72x faster than the UK average download speed and 272x faster than the UK average upload speed, as well as broadband packages of up to 10 Gbps for businesses.

This year, Community Fibre awarded by Which? as the UK’s ‘Greatest of Great Value’ in its 2025 customer satisfaction survey, as well as the UK’s #1 leading broadband provider by Broadband Savvy (August 2023). Community Fibre was awarded 2023’s Best Alternative Network by Uswitch. In November 2024, Community Fibre was recognised at the Internet Service Provider Association (ISPA) Awards as the UK’s Best Consumer ISP in its category for the fifth consecutive year. Most recently, it picked up award wins for Consistent Quality, Download Speed, Upload Speed, Reliability Experience and Video Experience on Opensignal’s London Regional Fixed Broadband Experience Table (December 2024).

 

More about Community Fibre

The announcement of Community Fibre’s second wholesale agreement with another Internet Service Provider (ISP) follows latest filings from the company, which recently reported (May 2025) an 82% increase in annual revenue to £76m, reporting earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) of £8mn in 2024, marking its first profit. The alternative fibre network (Altnet), which is the only Altnet in London with two significant wholesale deals, is backed by private equity firm Warburg Pincus, and has been EBITDA positive since April 2024. The company says it is excited by the potential with the enlarged VodafoneThree business, as both ISPs have large customer bases in London. This follows latest reporting from Community Fibre, which also saw annual gross margin increase to 87%, as well as a 51% customer base growth in the past year, making it the UK’s third-largest Altnet network by the all-important measure of customer numbers. On the same measure it is the leading network in London.