Virgin Media’s FTTP Covers 12,000 Premises in Heysham and Lancaster
Broadband ISP Virgin Media UK (VMO2) and nexfibre have today announced that more than 12,000 extra homes and businesses – across both the large coastal village of Heysham and the small city of Lancaster in Lancashire (England) – can now access their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP / XGS-PON) network.
Heysham and Lancaster are only the latest in a long list of locations that, over the past few months, have reported the completion of sizeable broadband coverage expansion projects – including Brentwood (Essex), 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 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 (starting with 5 million by 2026) in areas NOT currently served by Virgin Media’s own network of 16m+ premises. But Virgin Media, which shares some of the same parents, is currently the only ISP on this network (here).
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Nexfibre also doing a load of infill in York’s footprint for VM with multiple areas now live.
I was wondering if anyone knows this – if its up to 10 gigabits per second when can a customer order 10 gbps?
It will be a while yet, there just isn’t enough need to justify launching a tier like that. Expect to see 2 or 2.5 very soon, then 5 and probably 8 later on.
Unless something changes in the market, 10 will be a 3 to 5years or more. They need to focus on reliability, customer service and market share – building out the footprint and overbuilding with fibre on the HFC.
Not vanity tiers.
Currently on 2gb myself. its the 200 upload that I only really appreciate more tbh 😛
I would expect symmetrical 2 on fibre shortly
Is there any informed speculation on when other ISPs will be able to offer services over Virgins network? And will this apply to the cable network or only fibre?
From what i remember there was talk of Sky expanding from not just OR network but VM as well.
Nexfibre are currently deploying in my area (North Norfolk), but what isn’t clear is whether the ISP will purely be Virgin Media or will other ISPs be allowed to run over the Nexfibre full fibre network?
Essentially yes other can strike carriage deals a bit like Sky in Ireland have done with Virgin
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