Category: Wholesale

While the original goal of reaching 8 million premises passed by the end of 2025 is looking impossible now, the good news is CityFibre has raised more financing to help them continue their rollout of fibre to the premises. The CityFibre network is said by CityFibre to have reach 4.5 million premises so far, though […]

A bumper month for the Openreach full fibre rollout, we’ve tracked an additional 401,911 premises added to the total. This means the total Openreach full fibre footprint is 18,922,497 premises and no doubt the internal tracking at Openreach has it at over 19 million premises. Number of Openreach FTTP premises passed as of 12th July […]

Openreach, the incumbent infrastructure operator forming part of the BT Group, has announced it will add 21 new build locations adding 80,000 new homes and businesses across England and Wales to its footprint. The plans form part of Openreach’s plan to reach an additional 5 million premises in the current year (to March 2026). “This […]

The majority of the public who buy a Gigabit full fibre service from a reseller using the Openreach network buy the 1000 Mbps download with 115 Mbps upload option but there has been a 220 Mbps upload variant around for a while. The good news is the 1000 Mbps download with 220 Mbps upload is […]

The deadline for the PSTN switch off in 2027 is getting ever closer and after a successful proof of concept for Openreach to deliver extra help for retailers migrating vulnerable people Openreach is launching a larger pilot. The new pilot will run for six months from 22nd July 2025 or until 10,000 migrations have occurred. […]

ITS Technology Group have been awarded a £3.5m contract to build a dark fibre network in South Wales as part of the Digital Infrastructure Programme Swansea Bay City Deal. The money will go towards 41 dark fibre connections across 34 public sector sites in Carmarthenshire, connecting various local authority, health and education sites. ITS have […]

CityFibre have announced that their rollout of 10 Gbps XGS-PON has enabled them to increase the coverage of their Business Ethernet services to over 260,000 UK businesses, up from 80,000. The new FTTP technology that they are rolling out across the network incorporates a dedicated Business Ethernet platform from Calix. To help support businesses, they […]

Another month closer to the 2026 deadline for Openreach delivering 25 million premises passed and in the last 31 days we have added 323,437 premises to our Openreach FTTP Ready for Service footprint. The last month has seen the additions average out at 10,433 premises every day and mean the total footprint on our maps […]

Leveraging its XGS-PON network the altnet has launched a symmetric 5.5 Gbps service. The service extends the maximum speeds consumers could order from 2.5 Gbps to 5.5 Gbps and there is still headroom for even faster speeds as XGS-PON can deliver 10 Gbps. The UK’s full fibre future is here, thanks to CityFibre’s powerful, 10Gb […]

Another urban area has reached the point where CityFibre is saying its primary FTTP build has completed. Reading and the surrounding area now has some 97,000 homes which are Ready for Service via the many resellers who use the CityFibre wholesale network. The CityFibre press release makes the claim that the rollout means Reading is […]