Category: Wholesale

With the Ofcom Telecoms Access Review due to be published early next year, the five largest alt-nets in the UK have formed a coalition to try and press Ofcom for fairer pricing to ducts and poles that form the PIA products from Openreach.

nexfibre is a wholesale full-fibre network, where Virgin Media O2 is the anchor retailer.

The nexfibre XGS-PON service with 2 Gbps and symmetric options sold by Virgin Media O2 has started to surface in Skelmersale.

CityFibre has announced its footprint in Eastbourne is at 30,000 premises and the roll-out is continuing. Eastbourne District Council covers around 53,000 properties so lots of scope for more full fibre from CityFibre.

CityFibre is now repairing services six days a week with Saturdays being considered working days

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.