Category: Wholesale

The last 30 days has seen us find and add 510,223 premises to the network operators full fibre footprint. This is just shy of the record amount for a single months deployment which we covered in March 2025 with a monthly change figure of 518,745 premises. Combined with the previous two months the quarter saw […]

The Openreach Stop Sell programme aims to transition areas with high FTTP coverage (over 75%) to full fibre connectivity. To achieve this, Openreach halts the sale of analogue and part-fibre services in “stop sell” exchanges where full fibre is available. Customers are moved to full fibre when they change service providers or upgrade their broadband […]

When Openreach announced that it had made its FTTP service available to 20 million premises, our footprint tracking was showing a figure of 19.67 million premises RFS. Jumping forward two weeks and we can now report that the footprint in our database is 800 premises above the 20 million mark. Adding 330,000 million premises in […]

A massive milestone on the journey of 25 million premises passed by Openreach for its full fibre network has been reached with the largest full fibre network builder in the UK hitting a footprint of 20 million premises. It is such a milestone that got a collection of vehicles and staff together for a picture… […]

Virgin Media has released another update on the nexfibre XGS-PON rollout. The focus this time is on Littlehampton, on the south coast where they claim 21,000 homes have been built to. “21,000 more homes in Littlehampton can now feel the benefit of Virgin Media’s services – with packages that include everything from next generation multigigabit […]

Olilo who are a new retail broadband brand in the UK and describe themselves as broadband for engineers, sysadmins and home lab enthusiasts has now placed its first order using the All Points Fibre Networks’ aquila wholesale platform. The retailer launched back on 11th September and offers public access to statistics about its service so […]

With the Openreach EV fleet growing and recently gained its 5,000 electric vehicle the need for home chargers for those engineers who take their vehicle home at night was becoming more crucial. Openreach has partnered with myenergi who construct the zappi range of EV changes which generally offer 7kW or for those with three phase […]

Netomnia who by virtue of owning two networks can call themselves the second largest full fibre alt-net in the United Kingdom is refining its brand identity. The branding focuses on the phrase “WHERE THE MOST POWERFUL INTERNET LIVES” which is said to strengthen the previous statement of “a fibre network built for whatever comes next“. […]

Openreach is busy building its full fibre network and bandwidth stats show that 21st February 2025 was the busiest day of the year so far with 372 Petabytes of data transferred. Each Petabyte is 1 million Gigabytes. The ability for us to consume more data is perhaps no surprise as people shift from over the […]

An investment of £150,000 has brought full fibre to Margam Country Park as part of the Swansea Bay City Digital Infrastructure Programme. “Margam Park is one of Neath Port Talbot’s most treasured attractions and ensuring it has the digital infrastructure to support modern visitor experiences is a key priority. This investment in full fibre connectivity […]