Category: Wholesale

A new venture looking to roll-out full fibre in North West and North East England as well as Scotland and Wales is seeking code powers to make its roll-out easier.

Full Fibre Ltd, also known as Fibre Heroes wholesales its service via a number of retailers and its FTTP network has generally offered a 900 Mbps (Gigabit) service as its fastest, but there will soon be 2.3 Gbps retail options appearing.

The big provider that everyone was wondering whether it would pick nexfibre or CityFibre has made its choice and Sky is partnering with CityFibre to sell full fibre.

As part of the BT Group results Openreach was said to have built to 15 million premises with its FTTP network and we can now confirm that we've mapped over 15 million premises which are Ready for Service.

While it's not going to be everywhere, that from April 2025 we will see Openreach starting to launch a symmetrical full-fibre service is good news. Symmetrical meaning the same download and upload speeds in this case.

Another a new town where CityFibre and various retailers are selling full-fibre.

Project Gigabit is shifting to the next phase which is the path from 85% Gigabit coverage to 99% coverage and as the £288 million of contracts awarded to Openreach are a part of that.

Our monthly update on the Openreach full fibre roll-outs puts just days away from breaking the 15 million premises Ready for Service milestone with a footprint of 14,963,968 RFS premises passed.

Freedom Fibre has been below the radar to a larger extent that other alt-nets but has hit a milestone with 20,000 homes connected in places like Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe, Leek, Urmston, Northwich and Whitchurch.

Openreach is implementing tougher rules on 'whereabouts' reporting by users of its fibre ducts and one customer has an interesting view on this.