Category: Wholesale

With many millions of Fibre ONT set to be deployed over the next few years building them from recycled plastic is a big step towards the Openreach ambition for reaching net zero emissions by 2031. “Openreach’s ‘Let’s reach zero’ strategy is a great initiative that we are excited to be a part of. Together, we were […]

Bognor Regis is just one of many places across England and Scotland where CityFibre is building its wholesale full fibre network. Large sections of the rollout in Bognor Regis are now complete and the wholesale operator has revealed they’ve laid FTTP along some 286,000 metres beneath the roads so far. “Bognor Regis is making great […]

Openreach have announced they are extending their ‘FTTP Uninhabitable pilot’ for a further year, to now end on 31st August 2026. The pilot is evaluating the order, installation process and use of ruggedised ONT at uninhabitable locations. Ruggedised equipment is often used in more demanding environmental locations to withstand higher heat or weather that the […]

Freedom Fibre has added two more speed options to it service i.e. new 160 Mbps and 2.5 Gbps options, the later clearly exploiting the abilities of XGS-PON FTTP. This brings the total speed options to four, i.e. 160, 550, 1000 and 2500 Mbps. A new lower priced 160 Mbps option will make it easier to […]

Beckenham in the London Borough of Bromley has in the last 24 hours seen a chunk of new fibre to the premises from Openreach appear on our maps. We believe this footprint has gone live with retailers using the Openreach network in the last week. The areas bordering Beckenham already have a good amount of […]

While the original goal of reaching 8 million premises passed by the end of 2025 is looking impossible now, the good news is CityFibre has raised more financing to help them continue their rollout of fibre to the premises. The CityFibre network is said by CityFibre to have reach 4.5 million premises so far, though […]

A bumper month for the Openreach full fibre rollout, we’ve tracked an additional 401,911 premises added to the total. This means the total Openreach full fibre footprint is 18,922,497 premises and no doubt the internal tracking at Openreach has it at over 19 million premises. Number of Openreach FTTP premises passed as of 12th July […]

Openreach, the incumbent infrastructure operator forming part of the BT Group, has announced it will add 21 new build locations adding 80,000 new homes and businesses across England and Wales to its footprint. The plans form part of Openreach’s plan to reach an additional 5 million premises in the current year (to March 2026). “This […]

The majority of the public who buy a Gigabit full fibre service from a reseller using the Openreach network buy the 1000 Mbps download with 115 Mbps upload option but there has been a 220 Mbps upload variant around for a while. The good news is the 1000 Mbps download with 220 Mbps upload is […]

The deadline for the PSTN switch off in 2027 is getting ever closer and after a successful proof of concept for Openreach to deliver extra help for retailers migrating vulnerable people Openreach is launching a larger pilot. The new pilot will run for six months from 22nd July 2025 or until 10,000 migrations have occurred. […]