Category: Wholesale

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 […]

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 […]