19,000 More Brentwood Homes Get Virgin Media’s Full Fibre

Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) and nexfibre have today revealed that an additional 19,000 homes and businesses in the Essex (England) town of Brentwood, which is home to a population of over 55,000, have now been covered by their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network.

Brentwood is the latest in a growing list of Virgin Media locations that, over the past month, have reported the completion of sizeable broadband coverage expansion projects – including Sheffield (South Yorkshire), Scarborough (North Yorkshire), Coleraine (County Londonderry), Wakefield (West Yorkshire) and Doncaster (South Yorkshire) etc. All of this reflects work conducted via wholesale network operator nexfibre.

Just to recap. Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital Partners created a new joint venture called nexfibre in 2022 (here) – backed by £4.5bn – that aims to deploy an open access full fibre network to reach “up to” 7 million UK homes in areas NOT currently served by Virgin Media’s own network – starting with 5 million by 2026. But Virgin Media, which shares some of the same parents, is currently the only ISP on this network (here).