Category: Wholesale

CityFibre is celebrating that it has 1 million households and businesses signed up to its full fibre network now, and there is a further around 16,000 connections for mobile operators and other corporate/local authority bodies. “We have built a nationwide, full fibre network to be proud of and, today, CityFibre is trusted by millions to […]

As the CMA investigation into the acquisition of Substantial Group (better known as Netomnia) by nexfibre plods along, nexfibre commissioned a report by Assembly Research that looks into the implications of the merger and highlights potential dangers if the investigation drags on for many months. We’ve previously reported on the impact of the acquisition in […]

Price competition is fierce in the UK broadband market, and for consumers who engage and chase deals full fibre broadband can buck the inflation trend. Openreach has the largest full fibre network in the UK and is looking to ensure that as well as the largest network it gets retailers using its network to upsell […]

In the last three months we’ve tracked 1,128,974 premises that have gained access to Openreach full fibre services. This puts Openreach on track to hit its goal of 25 million premises Ready for Service in the timeframe of the first two weeks of December 2026. The last 30 days since a record breaking month has […]

The steady conversion from Openreach running a network dominated by copper and part fibre to a full fibre by default one continues. 238 more exchanges have been added to the list and these exchanges cover some 1.69 million premises across the UK. The stop sell programme has been running for a few years now and […]

PXC that was birthed from the old TalkTalk Wholesale business has added another alt-net to the range of networks it sells via its partners. Trooli is largely available across the South East and East of England but does have a smaller presence in Scotland under what was originally the Axione roll-out. The addition of Trooli […]

The small rural town of Chard in South West England is one of the latest areas where we’ve mapped nexfibre full fibre as being available. Chard itself already has an extensive Openreach full fibre footprint, but nexfibre brings XGS-PON with speed options of 2 Gbps and symmetrical speeds if willing to pay a £6 per […]

The Zyxel ONT constructed with plastic that is 95% recycled plastic has been installed in over 500,000 places across the UK and is a key part of Openreach reducing its environmental footprint. Sustainable business practices may not always be the flavour of the month but by using only 5% virgin plastic in the casing of […]

Things are going to get messy with a small number of people who were waiting on the multi-port ONT that Openreach use to become available in June 2026. The largest full fibre operator in the UK has announced no more multiport ONT will be deployed – if you have one then the existing stock will […]

After a smaller set of figures back in February than usual everything seems to be back to normal, as we’ve tracked an additional 363,513 Openreach full fibre premises in the last four weeks. Worries that Openreach had scaled back its rollout can now recede into the background, and the issue seems to be a big […]