Category: Altnets

It’s been reported in the Financial Times that Telefonia and Liberty Global, the owners of Virgin Media O2, along with their investment partner InfraVia, are closing in on a £2bn takeover of Netomnia, the UK’s fourth largest broadband network, with the company to be rolled into Nexfibre. The deal will see the retail brands Brsk […]

Gigaclear holds the East Gloucestershire Project Gigabit contract and while the scope was reduced to around 3,550 properties in the summer of 2025, work started on 18 different areas. Kemble is the first area where Gigaclear has announced live services are available, which with a direct rail link of 75 minute duration to London Paddington […]

Fibre alt-net Community Fibre has announced its latest financial results with a catchy headline that 10% of Londoners are now using an FTTP service from Community Fibre. Annual revenue growth is up 48% to £113m. The company is EBITDA positive, with earnings reported at £49.8m. The company has a 32% take-up rate on its network, […]

Netomnia has published its financial results that cover the retail brands of YouFibre and brsk both of whom are full fibre networks embracing XGS-PON full fibre. The results for year ending 31st December 2025 tell us that they had a serviceable footprint of over 3 million premises, growing by 970,000 in the last year. More […]

UK broadband ISP Gigabit IQ has announced the beta launch of Parentline launching on Thursday 29 January 2026. It describes as the UK’s first AI-powered online safety assistant for families. This aligns with its strategy of focussing on online safety as it provides services beyond its original Altnet build area in the Full Fibre Ltd and F&W Networks footprints. […]

We’ve ingested the 30 million addresses for England and Wales from the latest DSIT Open Market Review released in January 2026 and the maps have been rendered and interactivity updated to let everyone browse the data. DIST collects the Open Market Review data every four months, i.e. January, May and September of every year and […]

Wholesale alt-net CityFibre has released its full-year results to date ending 31st December 2025, and it shows the company has now exceeded 20% penetration across its consumer FTTP footprint. The company has confirmed that with £2.3bn of financing agreed during the year, they have a renewed ambition to consolidate the sector and extend their services […]

Following recent reports of lenders circling around Gigaclear, Point Topic have looked into the business case for potential acquirers of Gigaclear within the altnet space, identifying three potential suitors. Firstly to set some context, here’s the Largest Full-Fibre Networks chart from our State of Broadband Report from September 2025 (next iteration due in April): This […]

Back in the day of ADSL where your broadband (and telephone) service terminated at the telephone exchange, you’d find that even during a power cut, your phone line would continue working as long as you had an Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) to power your router (and of course using a computer/device with batteries). This was […]

CityFibre has announced that it has expanded the availability of its business FTTP broadband service to now cover its entire ready-for-service network footprint. This means businesses, small or home offices, and home workers can now get access to symmetrical products with speeds up to 2.5Gbps. Previously, symmetric business products were only available to the business […]