Category: Wholesale

The days of Openreach having well over 5,000 telephone exchanges is rapidly approaching with contracts for two of the pilot exchanges on the exit programme seeing contracts ending in November 2025.

The stop sell programme where is you can get Openreach FTTP on an exchange with over 75% FTTP coverage has just had tranche 17 added, comprising of some 92 exchanges.

An average month during June and the first few days of July in terms of what we have been able to map with regards to Openreach full fibre. Their footprint is now 14.6 million premises which is 44.7% of the UK premises.

TalkTalk is the retailer currently able to sell the CityFibre full fibre products to 22,000 homes across Wellingborough.

Openreach has today notified service providers that as of the end of 2025, it may serve 90 days' notice to cease providing Wholesale Line Rental (WLR) services. It is expected the full copper switch off won't happen until 2027 as previously indicated, however Openreach appears to be pushing providers to keep the momentum going to avoid problems nearing the final deadline.

The first customer to go live via one of the DSIT Project Gigabit contracts CityFibre holds has gone live in Grantchester and is using a 2.2 Gbps Vodafone service.

The Netomnia roll-out may have slowed down a bit in 2024, but they are still building at a pace that has seen them almost double their RFS footprint from half a million to over a million premises.

The two newest areas on our broadband maps with CityFibre coverage have had the full-fibre build underway for a while, but at least we can see retailers showing product availability.

Sheringham on the North Norfolk coast is more often associated with its steam trains, crabbing and not so exciting broadband and patchy mobile signals. This looks to be changing now.

CityFibre is saying its full fibre roll-out in Chichester is rapidly approaching 85%. This is at odds with our data for the Chichester exchange area which suggests 70% coverage irrespective of the networks - the full article dives into the difference.