Category: Wholesale

Virgin Media O2 and its PR teams have been busy for the last week, and the latest news to spin off the cable and fibre network to a wholesale platform creates another distinct before and after point.

Some of the villages on the outskirts Cambridge that don't have Gigabit services available should be able to see contractors working for CityFibre building full-fibre in the area.

In an interview with Zen CEO Richard Tang, the CEO of Nexfibre talks about the company's ambitions to compete with Openreach at a wholesale level.

The 1.2 Gbps and 1.8 Gbps GPON full fibre services from Openreach are set to launch fully on 1st April 2024.

The last month has seen a record amount of Openreach full-fibre spotted and mapped. The additional 496,224 premises breaks are previous record and is almost double the average monthly total.

We estimate there are about 5,000 premises with a similar amount of copper and no full-fibre options in the UK, so Openreach building out FTTP to this property is news.

While we wait for the first confirmed premises from previous CityFibre Project Gigabit contracts the wholesale full-fibre builder has been awarded another five contracts with a total subsidy value of £394 million.

The PSTN switch off, FTTP Priority programmes and exchange withdrawals are confusing enough but providers are being briefed that the WLR UK Stop Sell exemption is to be extended to 25th March 2025.

We missed having a celebratory round of Welsh Cakes earlier in January when our data saw Wales break the 50% Openreach FTTP coverage mark but an interview with Clive Selley by Business Insights highlights the milestone.

The nexfibre roll-out which is a joint venture involving Virgin Media O2 and others is continuing to be spotted across the UK and a couple of the latest new locations are Emsworth, Tewkesbury and Witham.