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The XGS-PON roll-out by nexfibre is appeared to the majority of Belper now and overbuilds the existing Full Fibre Ltd network.

Openreach has built its FTTP network to cover 17 million homes and businesses across the UK and is orders are growing up 26% in the last year to around 68,000 per week.

CityFibre who describe themselves as the largest independent full fibre platform has commenced work on its Project Gigabit contract for Leicestershire and Warwickshire.

With the news that construction to connect properties in Bedfordshire, Northamptonshire and Milton Keynes in areas where full fibre services were not expected commercially is underway from CityFibre they are now building in 6 of 9 contracts they hold.

The Advent Calendar today holds not just a small piece of chocolate but the milestone that the thinkbroadband footprint tracking is showing the Openreach full fibre footprint as covering 50.001% of UK premises.

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.