Category: Wholesale

Virgin Media owner, Telefónica, has advised that it will consider further takeovers of broadband providers to try and strengthen Virgin Media O2’s position against Openreach. Telefónica owns 50% of VMO2 alongside shareholder Liberty Global. VMO2 recently announced that it was acquiring broadband altnet Netomnia following agreement of a deal worth £2bn for the firm to […]

A small line or two in the paperwork but incredibly significant part of the £2 billion acquisition of Substantial Group (Netomnia) needs highlighting. “nexfibre to finance the fibre upgrade of the 2.1m VMO2 HFC homes (that are adjacent to the Netomnia footprint) with VMO2 paying wholesale fibre access fees on its customers in those homes […]

On the same day the new Openreach CEO Katie Milligan officially starts will also see a revamp of several parts of Openreach in moves that the telco feels will improve the experience they deliver for Communication Providers and their customers. Surinder Khatter will be appointed as Chief Customer Experience to lead a new Customer Experience […]

The change took place at the weekend and now the official announcement that Zzoomm is to be the single retail brand on the 600,000 premises area created by the merger of Zzoomm and FullFibre Ltd. Our map shows the postcodes that form a footprint of 601,000 premise spread across England, compared to some other providers […]

In the last week, we have seen some 14 addresses where we had previously seen Openreach make full fibre available, but subsequently remove the ability to order full fibre, and now these addresses are able to order FTTP again. Confusing, we know, but important for those living on these streets. That we are seeing addresses […]

The slowest month for Openreach full fibre additions for some years has just happened, just 160,930 premises have been added to our tracked total for Openreach FTTP. Several reasons are behind this big drop compared to the previous months total of 536,981 and the 353,433 premises we reported on in December 2025. We suspected the […]

Altnet group AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN) has announced a new partnership with Sky Business Wholesale to deliver Ethernet services through its platform, allowing APFN business customers to order full fibre (FTTP) services alongside Ethernet services across Sky’s network outside of APFN’s own coverage, giving it access to a larger nationwide footprint. We are increasingly seeing […]

Clive Selley who has taken Openreach through a decade of massive change is to be succeeded by the current Deputy CEO Katie Milligan on 1st April 2026. “I’m thrilled and privileged to be given the opportunity to lead Openreach. Our role in connecting communities, underpinning the UK economy and driving the benefits of digital inclusion […]

We have focussed on Stevenage because it looked likely as a place where we might find Openreach pausing Ready for Service availability on lots of addresses. After a couple of days of checking addresses we are in a position to share the results, at the start of 2026 Openreach full fibre coverage in the Stevenage […]

Over the Christmas break, we started to see some oddities with addresses where Openreach full fibre has previously been recorded as available, and now, a month later, we can share what looks to be happening at some scale across Great Britain. In the last few weeks, we’ve removed Openreach FTTP availability for over 18,000 addresses […]