Category: Wholesale

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 […]

After the announcement in March that Trooli was joining the PXC wholesale platform, the firms have announced that they are ready to move to the next phase, with Trooli ready to welcome PXC’s customers onto its network. “Since we announced the start of the partnership earlier this year, our highly experienced teams have been working […]

Southwold with its pier, lighthouse and beach huts is a popular slice of slow old British seaside holidays, but now has two different full networks across most of the town. Trooli appeared first in April 2024 and in the last week we’ve been seeing lots of Openreach FTTP become available. The Openreach rollout appears to […]

Openreach has announced that it has decommissioned Deddington telephone exchange from service in Oxfordshire, as the first of 4,600 telephone exchanges across the UK which are earmarked for closure. This is due to Openreach’s project to close 80% of UK exchanges as they migrate the country away from the copper-based public switched telephone network (PSTN) […]

The nexfibre rollout on behalf of Virgin Media O2 has rolled out to Inverkip in Inverclyde and looks to be the first full fibre option for many homes in the town. Inverkip is not the only coastal town along the A78 to see nexfibre rollout to it, but the town is the latest we’ve added […]

A busy week for the various flavours of full fibre in the Virgin Media footprint. Our maps and checkers are now showing some 2,011,124 premises where nexfibre XGS-PON is available i.e. standard Virgin Media speeds but with a 2 Gbps option and symmetrical speeds as an option on the slower products. The increased footprint for […]

January 2027 is now just 14 months away and yet there are telephone firms with customers who so far have done nothing visibly towards the PSTN switch-off. In an effort to force their hand Openreach is increasing the price of four WLR (wholesale line rental) products ahead of the service finally being turned off. The […]

An average month for the Openreach full fibre rollouts after a very busy end of the quarter push. Between 12th October 2025 and 12th November 2025 we’ve added 295,905 premises which are Ready For Service via the Openreach full fibre network. The rollout continues to be a mixture of overbuild of altnets, and easier to […]

Llantwit in Bro Morgannwg – the Vale of Glamorgan looks to be one of the latest nexfibre rollout areas. Virgin Media O2 has announced the nexfibre XGS-PON rollout has brought its full fibre services including 2 Gbps and symmetrical options to over 6,000 homes in the South Wales town. There is an extensive full fibre […]

The Telecoms Access Review is set to govern how Ofcom regulates the market in the period 2026 to 2031 and one proposal included in this was to force the pricing of the 80 Mbps download and 20 Mbps upload service from Openreach so that price rises would not exceed inflation. Today a consultation has opened […]