Category: Wholesale

ITS Technology Group have been awarded a £3.5m contract to build a dark fibre network in South Wales as part of the Digital Infrastructure Programme Swansea Bay City Deal. The money will go towards 41 dark fibre connections across 34 public sector sites in Carmarthenshire, connecting various local authority, health and education sites. ITS have […]

CityFibre have announced that their rollout of 10 Gbps XGS-PON has enabled them to increase the coverage of their Business Ethernet services to over 260,000 UK businesses, up from 80,000. The new FTTP technology that they are rolling out across the network incorporates a dedicated Business Ethernet platform from Calix. To help support businesses, they […]

Another month closer to the 2026 deadline for Openreach delivering 25 million premises passed and in the last 31 days we have added 323,437 premises to our Openreach FTTP Ready for Service footprint. The last month has seen the additions average out at 10,433 premises every day and mean the total footprint on our maps […]

Leveraging its XGS-PON network the altnet has launched a symmetric 5.5 Gbps service. The service extends the maximum speeds consumers could order from 2.5 Gbps to 5.5 Gbps and there is still headroom for even faster speeds as XGS-PON can deliver 10 Gbps. The UK’s full fibre future is here, thanks to CityFibre’s powerful, 10Gb […]

Another urban area has reached the point where CityFibre is saying its primary FTTP build has completed. Reading and the surrounding area now has some 97,000 homes which are Ready for Service via the many resellers who use the CityFibre wholesale network. The CityFibre press release makes the claim that the rollout means Reading is […]

AllPoints Fibre Network (APFN) and its aquila platform is expanding as a deal has been signed with Onecom. The new deal means Onecom business customers will have access to what the press release calls the largest network of business grade fibre premises in the UK. It will means Onecom will be able to use the […]

Our tracking of the Openreach full fibre rollout and mapping of premises where the public can get the service installed has hit the 18.3 million premises milestone. This is month after it was mentioned by Richard Tang at Connected North during a keynote presentation and 23 days since the Openreach press release announcing the milestone […]

Openreach has its 25 million premises passed by full target for the end of 2026 and based on the build rates observed over the last 3 to 12 months we are expecting to report on that sometime between November 2026 and January 2027. In the last 12 months Openreach has said it built full fibre […]

The recently launched aquila platform by AllPoints Fibre has gained a big partnership. Gamma Communications with a long tail of over 300 partners has signed a partnership agreement with APFN to resell services using multiple networks. We’re so pleased to be working with Gamma. It’s amazing to have a top-tier reseller join the aquila platform […]

Fingers crossed this new deal with BT will actually target the properities with the slowest broadband speeds in the Swansea Bay City Region.