Category: Wholesale

The Openreach FTTP footprint has now grown to 19,235,579 premises, with the last three months seeing the footprint grow by 1,038,430 premises. The addition of 313,082 premises in the last month means a daily total of 10,099 premises being added each day, and this is excluding around 10,000 premises where service is partially live. This […]

Openreach has some good news for residents of Bramley in Surrey who’ve suffered a long period of disruption due to a fuel leak from a local petrol station. The area was originally slated to see Openreach full fibre build start in 2021, but the dangers posed by petrol vapour in the underground network had put […]

Openreach has announced it has started rollouts in a few areas Brimscombe, Minchinhampton, Chalford, Stroud and Stonehouse in Gloucestershire. “We’re bringing full fibre broadband to more properties in Gloucestershire and letting local people know what to expect. This is a major infrastructure upgrade, so there will be more engineering teams, equipment and vans around town, […]

F&W Networks and Fusion Fibre Group are now in a strategic partnership that is said to be a major step forward in ultrafast expansion for rural and urban communities in the South of England. The short version of the announcement is that it looks like Fusion Fibre Group is going to utilise wholesale services from […]

A large block of Openreach has just appeared on our maps, some 289 postcodes serving 5,000 premises in the DL14 and DL4 postcode area of County Durham finally went live on Tuesday 5th August 2025. This is another block that we have had on our watch list, but only for a few weeks unlike the […]

We have been checking postcodes covering a few hundred premises in two North Norfolk towns since at least June 2025 where Openreach was saying full fibre is available but major retailers were still only offering VSDL2/part fibre services. On 5th August we finally saw the packages appear on sites like BT and EE and therefore […]

Residents in the old KCOM footprint of Hull can look forward to less duplication of telecoms infrastructure as KCOM launches its PIA service which will broadly mirror the Openreach PIA. The Hull area saw KCOM complete its FTTP rollout in 2019, though there have been small additions from new builds and wayleaves finally progressing. Subsequent […]

Fingers crossed the 883 premises we’ve mapped in the last few days in Harlow where Openreach FTTP has just become available are the start of a fast and much needed rollout. The Netteswell area of town is where most of the new full fibre has appeared, and takes the full fibre availability in the local […]

One of the areas that Openreach teased as being on their rollout list for full fibre appear back on 11th July 2025 has started to see FTTP appear. Rubery in South West Birmingham already has an extensive full fibre footprint via brsk, but we back on Friday 25th July we added a batch of addresses […]

Tranche 21 has been announced by Openreach in relation to the Stop Sell programme. The Openreach Stop Sell programme is designed to get areas with high availability of Openreach FTTP (over 75%) switching the majority of lines to full fibre. This is done by stopping the sale of analogue and part fibre services to those […]