Category: Wholesale

CityFibre holds several Project Gigabit contracts in the East of England and its Norfolk contract has gone beyond passing homes and is now connecting its first customers.

Openreach is looking to start sending out a pre-visit questionnaire to business customers, initially those in the London area.

Freedom Fibre who are rolling out full fibre in the the North West has appointed a new CEO with Nathan Vautier succeeding the current CEO Neil McArthur who will remain a different strategic role.

North Somerset have applied to Ofcom for code powers to allow them to build an FTTP network.

First there was Lightspeed with its vertically integrated network, but with the launched of LightSpeed Networks there is now opportunity for wholesale access to the network.

The speed options in several Norfolk villages just outside Norwich are improving as we have mapped the first live postcodes in the CityFibre Project Gigabit Norfolk contract.

Openreach says it is building past 1 million premises every quarter, the pattern is that each quarter has two months of average build volume and one exceptional month. Our report this month falls into the average category, but that is still more than double any competitor.

We knew it was on the way since mid August but it looks like Openreach has signed a contract valued at up to £800 million to bring Gigabit capable full fibre to large parts of Wales.

The UK business broadband market gets a lot less coverage than the residential, in part because its a lot smaller, but news today of an agreement between Sky Business and ITS will mean Sky has another Ethernet option in its armoury.

One route to having full fibre installed that is in demand from providers, but has had little visible discussion is Openreach offering a proactive upgrade path. This has been running for a year and now is set to be adopted as a standard product.