Category: Wholesale

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 […]

The target of Openreach hitting 25 million premises Ready for Service with FTTP by the end of 2026 is looking a close run thing. Our tracking is currently suggesting we will be reporting on the figure being reached between 16th January 2027 and 19th February 2027. So it seems possible that Openreach may have passed […]

Back in October 2024 APFN acquired the customer base of Brillband and now as APFN (All Points Fibre Networks) continues its repositioning as a purely wholesale operation utilising the aquila platform the Brillband customers have now been acquired by Olilo. “Brillband has built something really special, and we’re not coming in to rip everything up. The product, pricing, and […]

The eight call-off regional contracts Openreach holds with the aim of delivering Gigabit capable broadband using full fibre has seen a number of the contracts change in value. All the changes are detailed on our Project Gigabit page which tracks the changes as the Project Gigabit team update their own pages. The total value of […]

Ofcom has started a one month consultation to garner support or opposition to its proposal to force Openreach withdraw its ‘Incremental New to Openreach Offer’ as the regulator considers the charges as potentially harmful to network competition. This would be the first time that Ofcom has blocked a commercial offer from Openreach. The Openreach proposal […]

The Openreach Stop Sell programme is in full swing, and Openreach state that 15.4 million premises as of 20th August 2026 will be under active Stop Sell. This number is growing all the time and today has seen the next batch of 112 exchanges that will in a years time enter the Stop Sell phase. […]

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. […]