Category: Wholesale

While no doubt the absolute vast majority of people don’t abuse Openreach staff who can be working on their own at all hours of the day there has been a rise in the level of abuse, both verbal and physical. In the last year there have been 700 recorded incidents of physical or verbal assaults […]

The last week has seen the total of full fibre coverage in Plymouth, Devon, drop from a peak of 80.21% to 79.15%, and while it’s not the first council area in the UK to see footprints change in a negative direction, we felt an explanation was worthwhile. This is a long way from the first […]

So bury your head in address data for a day without surfacing means I missed running the news on the Openreach XGS-PON pilot pricing that will apply from 1st April 2026, so credit to Mark of ISPreview for running the notice on Thursday. Openreach is late to the XGS-PON party with altnets like YouFibre selling […]

We’ve ingested the 30 million addresses for England and Wales from the latest DSIT Open Market Review released in January 2026 and the maps have been rendered and interactivity updated to let everyone browse the data. DIST collects the Open Market Review data every four months, i.e. January, May and September of every year and […]

There are across the UK around 12.5 million properties where the Openreach Stop Sell rules are active, and with the announcement of Tranche 23 another 132 exchanges have started their countdown to the rules applying to them. Openreach gives 12 months notice to the many communication providers that use its full fibre and copper networks […]

A busy January with us tracking additions of 536,981, bringing the rolling three-month total to 1,186,319 million premises passed and Ready for Service by Openreach full fibre. The UK-wide total is sitting at 21,218,671 premises passed and mapped. This is a big jump compared to the 353,433 reported in the previous month, and as it’s […]

Twenty years ago, a new entity was formed to look after the copper local loop, and while there have been a few false starts, Openreach is now the custodian of the largest UK full fibre network and via PIA is pivotal to the many alt-net that exist in the UK. Openreach was officially formed on […]

Openreach looks to have been busy in December and hitting 21 million premises Ready for Service at the start of January 2026 is a key milestone in their ambition to hit 25 million premises by the end of the year. We usually update on the Openreach progress on the 12th of each month, but we […]

Unst is not just one of the Shetland Islands it is the Northern most one, and is closer to Bergen in Norway than it is to Inverness on the Scottish mainland. The R100 rollout started to go live on the island in October 2025 and we’ve been seeing postcodes flip to show coverage as the […]

The batteries used in your laptop, mobile phone including many EVs on the roads today, as well as many other higher power devices are based on Lithium Ion technology. These are very effective at being charged and discharged. Most datacentres will operate battery and generator backup to ensure equipment hosted there remains online, and BT […]