Here's why Zen Internet's full-fibre is worth the wait for ultra-fast broadband speeds throughout Bolton

Residents in Bolton can now access full-fibre connectivity with Zen Internet, the only Which? Recommended Provider for Broadband 2022.

Delivered over the CityFibre network, more than 20,000 homes are already enabled, with thousands more added every month.

Only 33 per cent of UK households are full-fibre enabled, giving residents of Bolton the opportunity to be early adopters on what is being coined the future of broadband.

Full-fibre broadband is the faster, more reliable, higher performance connection the UK has been waiting for, and it’s now already available via Zen for thousands of residents in Bolton.

Whether for working, playing, streaming, downloading or backing up precious files, Zen's full-fibre is built to keep the whole home connected.

Whatever you’ve heard it called – from Fibre To The Premises (FTTP) and Fibre To The Home (FTTH) to Ultrafast or Gigafast – full-fibre gives you a different type of broadband; one that swaps old-fashioned copper wires for a faster, more modern and reliable connection delivered via fibre optic cables.

Traditional broadband connections use copper wires all the way from the exchange to your home. Copper is great at carrying phone calls, but when it’s used for data, as it has been for years, it can create certain problems.

For example, the strength of your signal can degrade very quickly over copper, which basically means the longer the copper wire between your home and the exchange, the slower your broadband speed.

Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) improved this situation a great deal in the last decade by using fibre optic cable to connect the exchange to your local street cabinet. But that ‘last leg’ – the final bit of distance between the cabinet and your house – still uses copper