Category: Wholesale

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.

Openreach is saying its full-fibre roll-out is approaching 30 per cent of homes and businesses in the port town of Dover. We have a mapped footprint of 25%, up from 17% in the middle of January 2024.

An article in the FT has Greg Mesch the CEO of CityFibre saying they are looking at five acquisitions in the next couple of years.

The race to build more full-fibre continues and Complete Technology is set to build its FTTP infrastructure in thousands of homes which are a mixture of flats and standard homes.

Nexfibre has gone east with its East Lothian build which we've seen in Dunbar, Haddington, North Berwick and Longniddry.

In the middle of December 2023 CityFibre said its RFS footprint was 3 million premises and our mapping can confirm this figure now that we've managed to find a good chunk more.

48 exchanges which is an addtional 344,931 premises have been added to the FTTP Priority programme. This means once the appropriate priority date is reached, if you can get both FTTC and FTTP services over the Openreach network you will only be able to order FTTP.