Category: Wholesale

Waiting for full-fibre broadband is frustrating, but it becomes doubly frustrating when others in an area near to you can get it but you cannot. What does not help either is the amount of confusion over terminology and what projects like R100 will deliver.

The wholesale XGS-PON full-fibre network that is nexfibre is the latest addition to our broadband maps.

The footprint we have mapped for Openreach full-fibre has hit the 12 million premises passed milestone.

The end of analogue phone services in December 2025 is the prelude to some 4,000 exchanges being totally closed over the next decade.

We are close to 12 million premises passed in our tracking of the Openreach FTTP roll-out with 11,917,541 and should hit the 12 million figure in the next week or two.

Some streets in Braintree now have five different full-fibre networks available to them. The town is the first in the country with so much full-fibre available.

nexfibre has published the first of what should be a quarterly update showing where their XGS-PON network is and perhaps more importantly where it is going to be rolled out.

Those who have pure copper broadband i.e. ADSL/ADSL2+ have been skipped so far in the PSTN switch-off but as of 1st December a SOTAP product will exist supporting voice over broadband.

Openreach as part of BT Group may have managed to build FTTP past some 860,000 premises in the last quarter and add 364,000 live FTTP connections, but overall number of broadband lines shrunk by 255,000.

nexfibre aka VirginMedia O2 has been building in Scarborough for a while and the company says it has completed the expansion in the area now.