Category: Wholesale

Everyone complains that premises passed even if they are Ready for Service as we track is meaningless, but there should be no complaints about the first person who was recently passed and is now the first live connection on the Hampshire Project Gigabit contract.

Our tracking of all the full fibre Openreach is building shows the footprint has hit 18 million premises and is third party confirmation of what Richard Tang announced at Connected North.

INCA sees the widespread availability of altnet full fibre as setting the stage for mass migration away from legacy retailers like BT and Virgin Media.

Between 12th January 2025 and 12th April 2025 our database of Openreach full fibre coverage has increased by 1.3 million premises to just shy of 17.9 million premises. The highest growth in a three month period we've seen.

Back in February 2025 we started showing the CityFibre rollout in Warwick on our maps being sold by both TalkTalk and Zen Internet, for unknown reasons the footprint now seems to be exclusive to Zen Internet.

Openreach has informed service providers of a wholesale FTTP upgrade promotion due to take place in May.

With a footprint around 72% of premises CityFibre currently has the largest full fibre network in Dundee.

Lots of changes over the next decade and one of the big ones is Openreach existing thousands of exchanges, and stopping the sale of exchange based services is a big part of that.

The broadband landscape in the Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire has just seen a big change with the acquisition of the Connexin full fibre footprint by the wholesaler CityFibre.

The alt net Trooli is now on the PXC platform increasing the full fibre footprint various retailers can sell across.