Full Fibre network builder Netomnia, which is supported by broadband ISP partner YouFibre, has today revealed that their new gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network now covers 210,000 UK premises (up from 130,000 in April 2022) and they’ve also published their rollout plan to 2023.
The operator initially aims to cover 1 million premises by the end of 2023 and is currently being backed by investments worth £418m, while their existing rollout already extends across 48 UK towns and cities. Today’s news confirms that their pace of build has also continued to increase and is now reaching 30,000 premises passed per month (roughly double what they were doing during early 2022).
However, the biggest interest will stem from the fact that the operator has also unveiled their rollout plan for both the rest of 2022 and 2023, although for some strange reason they haven’t actually included a list of the relevant locations in their press release. Instead, you need to visit the rollout map on their website, which doesn’t provide a lot of info. on the new additions and if you try to zoom-in on some areas then it forces the view off-screen.
Despite the lack of detail in their announcement, it’s clear enough to see from the map (pictured – top) that they’re planning to extend quite a bit into Northern Ireland, which tends to be more the home turf of Virgin Media (VMO2), Openreach (BT) and Fibrus. Plenty of new areas will also be added across England and South Wales in 2023, with only the odd addition in Scotland.
Jeremy Chelot, CEO of Netomnia, said:
“Passing 210,000 premises in under two years is an unprecedented achievement for a company of our size. We are currently operating at a build rate of 30,000 premises per month, meaning we are on track to meet our one million premises passed target and to ultimately accelerate the UK’s transition to full fibre.
All of this is made possible with the hard work of our small but brilliant team of 100 people and marks an exciting step forward as we continue to scale rapidly, rolling out full fibre broadband across the UK. Netomnia’s network will ensure multi-gigabit connectivity for decades to come.”
The service itself is supplied to consumers via ISP YouFibre, which offers unlimited usage, symmetrical speeds, a Wi-Fi router, free installation and 24/7 UK based support. Customers pay from just £22 per month on an 18-month term for their unlimited 50Mbps package, which rises to £45 if you want their top 900Mbps plan (£50 thereafter).
Seeing as Netomnia didn’t see fit to list all the new additions to their rollout plan, we’ve decided to go in and attempt to manually pull out all the ones they intend to add in 2023. We didn’t do the same for 2022 because it would have taken too long to separate their ‘known from previously unknown’ builds.
Please forgive us if there are any mistakes below, as the operator’s rollout map is buggy and some builds are also dotted in areas with no name (most of those are part of a city region). We have asked the operator to provide an official list of the new additions.
Netomnia’s UK Rollout Plan for 2023
Northern Ireland:
Lisburn
Belfast
Whiteaabbey
NewtownardsScotland:
AlloaWales:
Deesdie
Maesteg
Talbot Green
Cardiff (parts of)
Penarth
Newport (part of)England:
Childer Thornton
Birkenhead (three surrounding areas)
Huyton (Liverpool)
Macclesfield
Leigh
Salford
Swinton
Whitefield
Failsworth
Swandlincote/Woodville (middle area)
Bicester
Leighton Buzzard
Chesham
Faversham
Sevenoaks
Farnborough
Salisbury
Yate
Bristol (parts of)
UPDATE 11am
Netomnia has supplied us with a full list of the 137 locations where they’re building, although this includes both existing and future deployments. The raw data is below.
Region | Exchange Name |
East Midlands | GRANTHAM ATE (Z) |
East Midlands | BOSTON (RIDGE) ATE |
East Midlands | SPALDING ATE (WINSOVER) |
East Midlands | SWADLINCOTE ATE |
East Midlands | SLEAFORD ATE |
East Midlands | SUTTON IN ASHFIELD ATE |
East Midlands | MANSFIELD T E |
East Midlands | LANGLEY MILL ATE |
East Midlands | ILKESTON ATE |
East of England | BEDFORD ATE AMC |
East of England | PURFLEET ATE |
East of England | DODDINGTON ATE |
East of England | HUNTINGDON ATE (Z) |
East of England | KINGS LYNN ATE/HPO Z |
East of England | ST.NEOTS ATE Z |
East of England | WISBECH ATE |
East of England | LEIGHTON BUZZARD ATE |
East of England | HODDESDON ATE |
East of England | WELWYN GARDEN CITY TE |
East of England | HITCHIN ATE |
East of England | HARLOW TE |
East of England | CHELMSFORD OLD ATE |
North East | DARLINGTON (QUAKER) ATE |
North East | TRIMDON NEW ATE |
North East | DURHAM T E |
North East | STOCKTON ATE |
North East | HOUGHTON LE SPRING NEW ATE |
North East | SPENNYMOOR ATE |
North East | PETERLEE T E |
North East | BISHOP AUCKLAND ATE |
North West | BAMBER BRIDGE ATE |
North West | OLDHAM ATE |
North West | SEFTON PARK ATE |
North West | HORWICH ATE |
North West | MIDDLETON ATE |
North West | CARLISLE GSC – PORTLAND HOUSE |
North West | LANCASTER AMTE |
North West | DALTON IN FURNESS ATE |
North West | BARROW AMTE |
North West | ELLESMERE PORT ATE |
North West | HUYTON ATE |
North West | WALLASEY ATE |
North West | LEIGH ATE |
North West | ROCKFERRY ATE.. |
North West | ARROWEBROOK ATE |
North West | SWINTON ATE |
North West | FAILSWORTH ATE |
North West | MACCLESFIELD ATE/TEC |
North West | WHITEFIELD ATE |
North West | PENDLETON ATE |
North West | CHEETHAM HILL ATE |
North West | AINTREE ATE |
North West | BURY ATE |
North West | STONEYCROFT ATE |
North West | SHAW ATE |
Northern Ireland | LURGAN TE |
Northern Ireland | BELFAST EAST (NEW) TE |
Northern Ireland | WHITEABBEY TE & EXTN |
Northern Ireland | LISBURN T E |
Northern Ireland | NEWTOWNARDS TE |
Northern Ireland | CITY T.E. (Belfast West) |
Northern Ireland | LONDONDERRY TE |
Northern Ireland | BALMORAL T.E. |
Scotland | FALKIRK TE |
Scotland | IRVINE-BOURTREE TE |
Scotland | COATBRIDGE ATE |
Scotland | HAMILTON T E |
Scotland | EAST KILBRIDE ATE |
Scotland | ALLOA TE |
Scotland | DUMFRIES TE/TRS |
Scotland | CUMBERNAULD ATE |
Scotland | KILMARNOCK T E |
Scotland | MUSSELBURGH TE |
Scotland | LEVEN TE |
Scotland | LIVINGSTON STATION TE |
Scotland | PENICUIK TE |
Scotland | DUNFERMLINE ND |
Scotland | KIRKCALDY ND/AM |
Scotland | GLENROTHES NDR |
South East | MAIDSTONE LESSOR BLDG(COLMAN H |
South East | NEWBURY AMC |
South East | FOLKESTONE ATE/HPO |
South East | DOVER ATE |
South East | OXFORD ATE |
South East | CANTERBURY ATE STOUR STREET |
South East | GUILDFORD ATE |
South East | ASHFORD ATE |
South East | GRAVESEND ATE |
South East | FAVERSHAM ATE |
South East | FARNBOROUGH ATE |
South East | CHESHAM ATE |
South East | BICESTER ATE |
South East | SEVENOAKS ATE |
South East | BYFLEET TE |
South East | TUNBRIDGE WELLS SOUTH TRS |
South East | DIDCOT ATE |
South East | AYLESBURY TE |
South West | FROME TE |
South West | DOWNEND TE |
South West | CHELTENHAM TE |
South West | TROWBRIDGE TE |
South West | TEWKESBURY TE |
South West | STROUD TE |
South West | BRISTOL WEST TE |
South West | SALISBURY ATE COMPLEX(BLOCK A) |
South West | BRISTOL SOUTH |
South West | CHIPPING SODBURY TE |
South West | FILTON TE |
South West | KINGSWOOD TE |
Wales | MORRISTON ATE |
Wales | NEATH ATE |
Wales | BARRY ATE |
Wales | BRIDGEND ATE |
Wales | CARDIFF EMPIRE ATE |
Wales | WHITCHURCH (CARDIFF) ATE |
Wales | PENARTH ATE |
Wales | LLANTRISANT ATE |
Wales | MAESTEG ATE |
Wales | NEWPORT MAINDEE ATE |
Wales | CONNAHSQUAY ATE |
Wales | LLANRUMNEY ATE |
Wales | HENGOED ATE |
Wales | LLANELLI ATE |
Wales | PONTYPOOL ATE |
Wales | SWANSEA CENTRAL A.T.E./T.R.S. |
Wales | NEWBRIDGE ATE |
Wales | TONYPANDY ATE |
Wales | NEWPORT (GWENT) ATE |
Wales | ABERDARE ATE |
Wales | WREXHAM ATE |
West Midlands | BURNTWOOD ATE |
West Midlands | WEDNESBURY ATE |
West Midlands | STAFFORD GSC (WALTON) |
West Midlands | WALSALL T E NETWORK HOUSE |
Yorkshire and The Humber | PONTEFRACT ATE & TRS |
Yorkshire and The Humber | WAKEFIELD ATE |
Yorkshire and The Humber | CASTLEFORD T E |
If I’m reading the map right, congratulations to the likes of Jade House Chinese Takeaway in Aylesbury (only) and Chapelwood Financial Planning Limited in Newport (only).
This is very odd. Just had a quick look at the Swadlincote/Woodville (@Mark – typo in the list 🙂 ) – my postcode isn’t listed as being covered (starting 2023) but i’m “near” the blue dot for it, so not sure what they class as “middle area”.
Also seems stupid pushing into Swad/Woodville – because we already have Virgin FTTP here, and BT FTTP.
They’d be better going over the Staffordshire boarder, and installing in Burton upon Trent – Virgin rolled out recently but BT are kicking the can down the road here.
Virgin FTTP is already live in more than 15million homes so it’s really hard to avoid them. It’s still great that altnets overbuild because they are cheaper than BT and VM pretty much all the time
It seems that their system only starts marking homes as coming soon when they are closer to being live for example in Doddington
Staffordshire border* my turn for a typo ¬_¬
@Philip – Agree and understand we’re serviced by the two biggest players. However this is all “new”. Virgin appeared here <3 years ago in Woodville and has been rolling out the last 18mo across Swadlincote.
BT rolled out in the last 14 mo in Woodville and is still pushing its way through Swadlincote/Newhall.
Both have aggressively advertised and pushed services, so I'd expect it's going to be harder for a small player to come in and try and steal that market (which has probably already moved to VM/BT on a decent package)
They haven’t just built on the KINGS LYNN ATE/HPO Z exchange, they have also built on the SOUTH WOOTTON exchange which isn’t listed and is 2 miles away from the King’s Lynn exchange.
Shame it won’t be coming to Cuckoo Oak until 2030!
Isn’t an altnet rolling out to you in the next couple of years? You said the CEO told you they were on their way?
Why would YouFibre intentionally overbuild a local altnet when they could be working on areas where the competition is the less agile Openreach, VMO2 and CityFibre?
Openreach + VMO2 + an altnet not good enough for a random suburban exchange?
Last year in my area we got a letter through our door from Your Fibre saying FTTP was coming to our area, if I look at Netomnia site for my postcode now “Our plans do not currently include your postcode.”
I had a quick look using random postcodes they only places that got it is the main roads and parts of town center.
So according to their rollout map Bedford is ‘in progress’. I have seen nothing on bidb.uk nor are there any new plans on the councils website. I dearly hope they will include me, but putting my postcode in on their website reveals “Our plans do not currently include your postcode”. But so does every other Bedford postcode I put in, so hopefully it’s a database update thing.
I wish they’d give some sort of indication as to where will be covered in a town because with the addition of Netomnia there are now supposedly 3 FTTP providers (4 if you count a business only one on the industrial estates) but none of them cover me and it’s not like I live in the middle of nowhere either, quite a popular part of the town.
Wow. Fair play Jeremy and team!
Thank you
I believe they do not build out of each and every exchange, but instead build out of one exchange and cover not only that area but some neighbouring areas too.
That’s certainly the case from what I have seen.
Correct
Appreciate the confirmation Jeremy!
Getting so fed up of the seemingly total avoidance of any provider to supply FTTP to Westbury, Wiltshire unless it’s a new build. No Openreach, no alt-nets. At the mercy of VMB for anything above 80mb.
It’s not like we’re out in the sticks or anything???
As you say, some Openreach and OFNL FTTP on different new builds. But to be fair, the town is covered by Virgin Media’s gigabit-capable network, so it’s not totally isolated from the gigabit era.
Mark you are taking VM for their word that their “entire network” is gigabit capable, as they themselves advertise.The truth is that it isn’t, and their marketing is a lie basically. I can prove it by putting in a local postcode and the maximum is 500. If it’s capacity, then it’s been at capacity for over 12 months now and I’ve seen several people on their community forum complain they cannot get gig1, even some areas are limited to 350 mbit.
Yep, they seemingly only care for new builds but are completely oblivious to the awful service VM are providing in this area.
This confirms that for now, Netomnia are only focusing on the areas served by Bridgend Town and Maesteg exchanges as part of their Bridgend County rollout. Which is a shame.
Jeremy had previously mentioned they planned to start with the Bridgend Exchange, extending throughout the county.
Hoping they’ll come back with future phases to expand these existing deployments. In the meantime, I’ve noticed Ogi are moving in fast to fill the gaps in these ‘out of scope’ surrounding areas.
Or it could just be that Bridgend has live homes but the build is still underway
For example Darlington turned live a few weeks ago, does not mean that the entire town is complete
Perhaps my comment wasn’t overly clear, I am referring to areas served by other exchanges, within the county.
So out of 8 exchanges in Bridgend county, they’re focusing on properties within vicinity/served by, 2 exchanges.
Given they’re prioritising by exchange, it’s pretty clear that, if your served by an exchange not on that list, you shouldn’t expect service within the currently proposed, or active phases.
I don’t think Netomnia is bound by BT exchange area, example their Stockton exchange extends south all the way to Ingleby. Same way that they can serve Cornelly from Bridgend exchange
I have no clue if they are reliant on OR (IIRC they’ve worked with OR in the past) but I get the sense they play some role. Regardless, what Netomnia ARE doing is using exchanges as their point of reference for deployments. It probably doesn’t serve any purposes besides being just a pint of reference, but they decided it was useful.
I think it’s unlikely that when they to deploy In an area/town/city that the build covers and exceeds the serviceable area of the local exchange. So, even if exchanges play no part in the network deployment, it makes a nice way to zone deployments and it’s obviously a relevant data point to them.
Also, are they servicing Cornelly? I was pretty sure they weren’t.
I agree though, they can run fibre where ever and there’s plenty of OR ducts running from Bridgend to Porthcawl, Pyle etc, that other networks have already leveraged (OFNL etc.)
There’s no need for it to be contained, but for now it looks like it is.
SJC, there are roadwork notices in my area in Aberkenfig for Netomnia too, and we have our own exchange.
They are not just focusing on Bridgend itself.
We go as fast as we can 🙂
Promised a service by mid July, never heard anything from them so pulled out. Customer service abysmal.
All overbuilds? Yep, thought so.
Salisbury is on the list. The place that has 100% BT FTTP and is also a pilot area for VMO2 FTTP. Nice work.
They’ll probably make all these towns live within 20 days, beating the previous record set by Netomnia and Tewkesbury 🙂
Slightly longer 🙂
Frome started months ago. Still not live. Have asked many times but they can’t provide a live date…(am located in an area that has been notified of intention to build even though openreach fttp is already here)
My town is listed as “live” but any postcode within I’ve checked said “Our plans do not currently include your postcode.” Also their representative said they first need to build core network. Weird company.
We are updating 🙂
Wasn’t surprised at all to see they don’t care about the North of Scotland. I guess they think Aberdeen is not on the mainland?
I think city Fibre is rolling out there
It’s harder to get resources that far north, people may not be willing to work that far out
Not full UK wide not in Scotland haha
Looks like they cancelled their plans to rollout to Dalkeith.
No we did not, BT exchange was full therefore we will do it from the 2 neighbouring exchanges.
It says Hamilton is live on their website. It is, in a new build housing estate…
When I put my postcode in it says they’ve no plans, but I saw guys in the street outside my house pulling in fibre. They had a sign saying “Installing fibre on behalf of Netomnia”.
A quick email to them has revealed they’re planning to go live in my street by the start of February.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens as the list of exchanges above states Hamilton. My house is supplied from the Blantyre exchange…
I hope it comes to fruition as I’ve been ripped off by Virgin for far too long now and can’t haggle with them because they know I can’t get anything but 2mb ADSL…
We are updating the postcode checker in the coming days/weeks.
It’s like the 90’s all over again. Wait for the pop.
Very disappointed, as I assumed that Guildford was ‘01483’
When first announced, I was included, now it’s only Guildford ATE and not Worplesdon 5 miles from the Centre 🙁
I know that we’re a quarter of the size of Guildford ATE (4,316 residential premises
156 non-residential premises) but assume all other peripheral exchanges would match Guildford volumes.
“”Not quite yet!
Our plans do not currently include your postcode. We are always looking to expand our network, so please do register your interest with one of our service providers, and we will work with them to consider it in our future plans!””
Does anyone have an estimate of how long until Bedford is live? Our current Virgin Media 350Mbps contract is expiring in early November and they are trying to jack up the price to a ridiculous level (more than Netomnia charge for symmetrical Gigabit ). The rollout map shows Bedford as “in progress” and our postcode is included.
Well I have received a letter saying they are coming to our area very soon. It’s not on the map and list above. But it’s in Clydach (SA6) near Swansea
I registered my interest and signed up with the expectation of switching rip-off Virgin in July/August 2022. On hearing nothing by mid September, I emailed them asking about the schedule and they eventually replies, saying works were on schedule for October. It’s November now, any info. I can find still says “soon”, but frankly, I’m not holding my breath. It feels like they’re not being honest about their progress, which doesn’t fill me with confidence, tbh.