Category: Wholesale

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 […]

Freedom Fibre and PXC collaborating is not new, but now channel partners of PXC will be able to access the Freedom Fibre footprint. We presume this means partners such as Utility Warehouse and others. “We’re delighted to be bringing Freedom Fibre’s [CS1] residential connectivity to our partners in the North West and the Midlands. We’re proud to […]

After the trial involving 500 trialists giffgaff has now launched its symmetric full fibre services that use the nexfibre XGS-PON network most commonly associated with Virgin Media O2. Service is limited to selected locations across North West England, Yorkshire and the Humber and East Midlands, with a rollout in the North East in October and […]

A common question is how long between Openreach announcing rollout and build is underway in an area and actually being able to order. Openreach announced Rubery as part of its commercial rollout two months ago and Openreach FTTP is getting closer with a large number of addresses going live in Turves Green and Longbridge in […]

For full fibre orders received between 3rd October 2025 and 31st December 2025, and are connected by the end of January 2026, Openreach is going to charge a £0 connection fee IF you have not had any Openreach services to the property for more than 90 days. The price of a standard connection from Openreach […]

It appears Openreach will be offering service providers some routine provisioning appointments on Saturdays for the immediate future. This doesn’t mean providers will always be able to accommodate this for consumers, however it is likely those ordering new full fibre services will see Saturday appointments for installs in the near future. These are only for […]