Category: Wholesale

The latest financial results from Virgin Media O2 show a declared footprint of 18.8 homes and the full fibre rollouts and upgrades are available to 9 million premises, so almost at the half way mark as the operator moves to embrace XGS-PON and full fibre rather than coax. In terms of customers, the level of […]

The historic medieval village of Alfriston in East Sussex has joined the modern Internet age as CityFibre has recently gone live with its full fibre service, sold by a variety of retailers including Vodafone. The rollout is not to every property in the village, so hopefully more addresses will go live in the coming weeks. […]

Moody’s has published a report that takes a look at the UK broadband and compares penetration and take-up rates with the collective EU+UK. For years the UK was lagging seriously with regards to full fibre availability compared to the EU 27, but since around 2024 when the UK drew level rollouts have continued. Of course […]

We covered our Openreach full fibre tracking hitting the 23 million milestone back on 4th July 2026, and now it is time for our regular 12th of the month summary of the Openreach FTTP rollouts. The pace of 1 million premises going Ready for Service a quarter appears to have been broken, and while the […]

Ses Indy who has 25 years of experience working in the digital infrastructure and fixed telecommunications sector has joined nexfibre in the role of Chief Commercial Officer. Ses Indy joins from Openreach where he had worked for 17 years working closely with providers like Sky, Vodafone and PXC with a focus on wholesale strategy. “I […]

With a few days under 6 months to go our tracking of the Openreach full fibre rollouts show they have built full fibre to some 23,004,858 premises where we’ve been able to identify them as Ready for Service. The build rate has been running at 1 million premises a quarter so the ambition to reach […]

In a move aimed at simplifying its operating model and deliver a laser focus on selling services that utilise the CityFibre network footprint the big altnet is selling Entanet and its non-core off-net business to Tom O’Hagan. The sale means Entanet will become a strategic wholesale partner of CityFibre while also utilising other networks where […]

The Equinox offers that Openreach launched in 2021 and are currently running as Equinox 2 are meant to incentivise retailers to sell more full fibre connections, particularly the higher speed tiers. Openreach has issued the pricing info for its sixth year of the Equinox offers. There will be no price changes in the April 2027 […]

As part of a national awareness campaign that will run for a week from 4th July 2026 INCA has announced July 4th as Broadband Independents’ Day. The aim of the day and subsequent awareness events is make people aware of the options that are available to them. Some 3.6 million broadband connections are already up […]

Some call it Project Mustang, some call it FibreUp but the programme Virgin Media O2 has underway to upgrade old coax DOCSIS 3.1 areas to XGS-PON full fibre has been underway for a while, but now with giffgaff selling its full fibre services using the nexfibre wholesale platform in some Project Mustang areas the landscape […]