Category: Internet Service Providers

The gap between the RFS footprint of 120,000 that Lightspeed said back in April and our tracking is reducing but still a big gap between 50,000 premises and 120,000 premises.

The pressures on full fibre alt-nets is back in the news once more as Lightspeed is notifying some staff of future redundancies according to ISPreview.

Vodafone remains the largest full fibre retailer in the UK, but as others enlarge their footprint on the CityFibre network the gap is closing.

Virgin Media O2 and its nexfibre roll-out mean Virgin Media O2 remains the largest Gigabit retailer in terms of homes services serviceable and that might remain the case for many years

We believe it is fair to say if the broader economy was booming, the full fibre new entrants would not be looking at cutting operating costs, and investors might be willing to give longer before closing their wallets.

Northern Ireland at the start of April was showing 90.3% FTTP coverage and largely due to the Fibrus roll-out this has jumped to 91.8%. April has seen has find 30,000 premises passed by Fibrus full fibre in Northern Ireland and North West England.

6G Internet is rolling out a fixed wireless service in the North West, though it seems to make claims of sending a full fibre signal over a wireless network which makes no sense.

The latest FTTP network added to our maps is Connect Fibre with their roll-out in Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire.

YouFibre has just hit its 30,000 customer milestone and as this was being passed it has connected its first customer in Derry/Londonderry. This means the FTTP service has customers in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

It appears Zybre which recently acquired Air Broadband may be up for sale. A statement published on the company's website suggests they are in "negotiations with Home Telecom part of the TalkTalk group" although it is not clear exactly what this means.