Category: Wholesale

Openreach has announced the names of some of the areas where it has delivered full fibre already as part of its Type C Project Gigabit contracts.

Forget consolidation of altnets the big business move in 2025 looks to be launching wholesale platforms with the aim of making it easier for retailers to access multiple FTTP networks.

The last three months has seen us add 1.2 million premises to our broadband maps for where Openreach full fibre is available and the largest full fibre network in the UK now covers 55.1% of the UK.

Sleaford has Openreach full fibre and Lightspeed too and is one of latest areas where we are seeing nexfibre appear with services sold by Virgin Media O2.

The Openreach FTTP Priority programme is now at 1501 exchanges in size and the next batch of 163 exchange locations has been announced.

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.