Category: Wholesale

In the last week, we have seen some 14 addresses where we had previously seen Openreach make full fibre available, but subsequently remove the ability to order full fibre, and now these addresses are able to order FTTP again. Confusing, we know, but important for those living on these streets. That we are seeing addresses […]

The slowest month for Openreach full fibre additions for some years has just happened, just 160,930 premises have been added to our tracked total for Openreach FTTP. Several reasons are behind this big drop compared to the previous months total of 536,981 and the 353,433 premises we reported on in December 2025. We suspected the […]

Altnet group AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN) has announced a new partnership with Sky Business Wholesale to deliver Ethernet services through its platform, allowing APFN business customers to order full fibre (FTTP) services alongside Ethernet services across Sky’s network outside of APFN’s own coverage, giving it access to a larger nationwide footprint. We are increasingly seeing […]

Clive Selley who has taken Openreach through a decade of massive change is to be succeeded by the current Deputy CEO Katie Milligan on 1st April 2026. “I’m thrilled and privileged to be given the opportunity to lead Openreach. Our role in connecting communities, underpinning the UK economy and driving the benefits of digital inclusion […]

We have focussed on Stevenage because it looked likely as a place where we might find Openreach pausing Ready for Service availability on lots of addresses. After a couple of days of checking addresses we are in a position to share the results, at the start of 2026 Openreach full fibre coverage in the Stevenage […]

Over the Christmas break, we started to see some oddities with addresses where Openreach full fibre has previously been recorded as available, and now, a month later, we can share what looks to be happening at some scale across Great Britain. In the last few weeks, we’ve removed Openreach FTTP availability for over 18,000 addresses […]

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 […]