Category: Wholesale

The Openreach target of 25 million premises by the end of 2026 is looking increasingly likely to slip into 2027. We suspect they may be able to declare premises passed, but once you count Ready for Service, which we track, the date is firmly in January 2027 and is sliding into February 2027. The rolling […]

Openreach has today announced Stop Sell lists (Tranche 26) across 112 full fibre telephone exchanges which means legacy analogue services can no longer be ordered where Full Fibre is available to over 75% of premises in these locations. This applies to new connections, upgrades, and most provider switch situations is designed to redirect customers towards […]

Virgin Media O2 has issued a statement on the TalkTalk/PXC purchase by BT Group: “This has all the characteristics of a stitch up masked as a rescue deal in the public interest. Just days after the competition regulator proposed potentially blocking a logical deal between nexfibre and Netomnia that would accelerate fibre investment and create […]

Addresses where full fibre has been rolled out and was available to order (RFS) for a while but is subsequently withdrawn are known as transients in our system and there are at least 42,000 addresses like this across Great Britain for the Openreach FTTP network. Transients are not purely an Openreach problem, as we see […]

A bit of fun or a table highlighting the scale of work left if the WLR switch off is to complete by end of January 2027. There is little time left for homes and businesses that are using a copper based telephone line (Wholesale Line Rental/WLR) service to switch to a VoIP (Digital Voice) or […]

AI is the darling of the moment, but it does have practical uses and while many worry about it coming for their job, if used right it can help firms to do more and utilise staff. Of course, some firms are going to see AI as a chance to get rid of support teams and […]

The Openreach rollout of full fibre to 25 million premises by the end of 2026 is said to be on track by those speaking for Openreach, but in terms of verified Ready for Service (RFS) the current pace is suggesting we can report on that figure between 29th January 2027 and 19th March 2026. Openreach […]

With only 3 and a bit months until the end of 2026 the Openreach goal of 25 million premises passed by its full fibre network is getting very close. Today our tracking of not just the premises passed but actual addresses where service is Ready for Service has hit 23.5 million premises, and this is […]

APFN is celebrating that its wholesale platform is selling Fibre to the Cabinet services in the form of Single Order Generic Ethernet Access (SoGEA). The combination of this with the full fibre options already on the aquila system gives them a combined part fibre and full fibre reach of 32.9 million premises. “The PSTN switch-off […]

With competitors selling XGS-PON services as standard and Sky customers often showing up enjoying 5 Gbps download speeds using the CityFibre network, the news that Openreach is turbocharging the speeds on its network will help level up the competition. An Openreach FTTP pilot has been running in the Guildford area since March 2026, with the […]