Category: Wholesale

The Openreach full fibre footprint we have mapped is just shy of the 50% mark by 180,000 premises and hopefully we will find and map that many before the New Years Eve parties get underway.

Wales sent out the press release on Tuesday 10th December and our monthly summary also showed Wales hitting the one million premises ready for service over the Openreach FTTP network back on 7th December 2024.

Changes are on the way around WLR stop sell exemptions that gave various services a bit of extra life in the race to migrate voice and other services away from the old PSTN to IP or Digital Voice based services.

The primary roll-out has just completed in Hartlepool according to CityFibre with the roll-out passing some 33,000 premises. In terms of the best town handle, once other full fibre options are counted 90% of the town council area has one or more full fibre option.

nexfibre is now showing up in many of the areas where the old alt-net Upp was present in the East of England.

With the many concerns around people being left without phone or broadband service in cases where service is critical to their well-being and safety Openreach is starting a small scale trial to ensure people are not left in a dangerous situation.

Openreach has published a list of the 10 places in Kent with the highest levels of full-fibre coverage that they've built, we add the key figures to this list.

Work is underway to roll-out Openreach FTTP to the island of Iona under the Scottish R100 contract with the first residents due to go live in early 2025.

The XGS-PON FTTP wholesale service from nexfibre, currently exclusively sold by Virgin Media O2 is now available to a large proportion of Whitby.

AllPointsFibre is not worried about the amount of fibre in our diet but rather ongoing situation where its not obvious if a Fibre 50 service is full fibre based or part fibre based in advertising.