Category: Wholesale

With a few days under 6 months to go our tracking of the Openreach full fibre rollouts show they have built full fibre to some 23,004,858 premises where we’ve been able to identify them as Ready for Service. The build rate has been running at 1 million premises a quarter so the ambition to reach […]

In a move aimed at simplifying its operating model and deliver a laser focus on selling services that utilise the CityFibre network footprint the big altnet is selling Entanet and its non-core off-net business to Tom O’Hagan. The sale means Entanet will become a strategic wholesale partner of CityFibre while also utilising other networks where […]

The Equinox offers that Openreach launched in 2021 and are currently running as Equinox 2 are meant to incentivise retailers to sell more full fibre connections, particularly the higher speed tiers. Openreach has issued the pricing info for its sixth year of the Equinox offers. There will be no price changes in the April 2027 […]

As part of a national awareness campaign that will run for a week from 4th July 2026 INCA has announced July 4th as Broadband Independents’ Day. The aim of the day and subsequent awareness events is make people aware of the options that are available to them. Some 3.6 million broadband connections are already up […]

Some call it Project Mustang, some call it FibreUp but the programme Virgin Media O2 has underway to upgrade old coax DOCSIS 3.1 areas to XGS-PON full fibre has been underway for a while, but now with giffgaff selling its full fibre services using the nexfibre wholesale platform in some Project Mustang areas the landscape […]

Richard Tang has released the most recent of his interview series, this time with Juliette Scott of Openreach. Juliette is the Senior Manager for all IP Migrations and Exchange Exit. This means that she is in charge of getting the 5,500 telephone exchanges reduced to a new estate of just 959. The PSTN (public switched […]

CityFibre is celebrating that it has 1 million households and businesses signed up to its full fibre network now, and there is a further around 16,000 connections for mobile operators and other corporate/local authority bodies. “We have built a nationwide, full fibre network to be proud of and, today, CityFibre is trusted by millions to […]

As the CMA investigation into the acquisition of Substantial Group (better known as Netomnia) by nexfibre plods along, nexfibre commissioned a report by Assembly Research that looks into the implications of the merger and highlights potential dangers if the investigation drags on for many months. We’ve previously reported on the impact of the acquisition in […]

Price competition is fierce in the UK broadband market, and for consumers who engage and chase deals full fibre broadband can buck the inflation trend. Openreach has the largest full fibre network in the UK and is looking to ensure that as well as the largest network it gets retailers using its network to upsell […]

In the last three months we’ve tracked 1,128,974 premises that have gained access to Openreach full fibre services. This puts Openreach on track to hit its goal of 25 million premises Ready for Service in the timeframe of the first two weeks of December 2026. The last 30 days since a record breaking month has […]