Category: Wholesale

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 […]

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 […]