Category: Altnets

London-focussed Broadband Altnet Community Fibre has re-launched its popular Double the Speed promotion which sees it upgrading its package speeds. These increased speeds will be valid across the 24-month contract period with prices fixed until April 2026 when they go up by £2/month as part of annual prices increases (and £4/month at the end of […]

We are seeing quite a few reports of outages affecting Hyperoptic users in Southeast London including in Lewisham, Deptford, Greenwich, Woolwich, Dartford and Northfleet on the Bank Holiday Monday. It appears connectivity has returned, although the outage did seem to last some hours. There are users who report difficulties getting through to Hyperoptic support. In […]

CityFibre announces the launch of its 8.5Gbps product, which it is rolling out across its entire network, allowing customers across the UK access to some of the fastest FTTP products available. The company has been working to roll out 10Gbps XGS-PON technology nationwide across the CityFibre footprint, which reaches over 4.7m premises according to the […]

Altnet full fibre coverage had reached 19.7m premises at the end of 2025 according to INCA’s State of the Altnets report, and they have over 3.5 million live connections. The number of premises passed has grown by 20% year on year, but the number of live connections has grown by 32%. The report points out […]

The wholesale aquila platform has had CityFibre services available over it for some time, but a new platform release means that APFN (All Points Fibre Networks) is now able to offer 1.7 Gbps and 2.3 Gbps through the system. This means partners can now offer XGS-PON speeds matching other platforms that sell the CityFibre services. […]

The rollout of full fibre to the premises by Fibrus in the North West has continued at a reasonable pace and they have now rolled out FTTP to some 30,000 homes and businesses where no commercial plans to deliver a Gigabit bit capable service across the Cumbria area. The Cumbria Project Gigabit contract from November […]

The rollout by CityFibre in Leighton Buzzard appeared recently on our maps and while there is a far bit of overlap with the Openreach full fibre network based on the DSIT OMR data it does look like some streets and addresses are part of Project Gigabit. The addresses we think are via Project Gigabit subsidy […]

A look at a few bits of news that have also come out this week. PXC reveals major updates to 1Portal PXC has updated its wholesale platform, 1Portal, focusing on end-to-end automation. The platform allows providers to order services including Openreach SOGEA, CityFibre FTTP, Community Fibre and Freedom Fibre, with further altnets in the pipeline […]

One of the most significant acquisitions in the Altnet world was announced last week when InfraVia, Liberty Global and Telefonica, the shareholders who own Virgin Media O2 and Nexfibre, announced their £2bn deal for Nexfibre to acquire Netomnia. We also published an analysis on what this deal means for the VMO2 and Nexfibre networks. The […]

The joint venture company nexfibre is to buy Netomnia (YouFibre and brsk) in a £2 billion deal, following on from substantial rumours over the last few months. Substantial Group, which most people will know as Netomnia, with the retail full fibre brands YouFibre and brsk. The £2 billion deal includes selling the customers from the […]