Virgin Media UK and Nexfibre Expand Full Fibre to 9,000 Homes in Bath

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their UK parentage with retail broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), has today announced that they’ve made their 2Gbps speed Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network available to more than 9,000 additional homes in the city of Bath (Somerset, England).

Bath already has a strong level of gigabit broadband coverage, albeit via somewhat of a patchwork of different network operators (not all of which overlap). The latest development means that Virgin Media and nexfibre now have some of the strongest coverage, although Openreach, CityFibre and Truespeed also have a strong level of FTTP coverage in various areas. After that, smaller altnets, like OFNL and Hyperoptic, can similarly be found in a few specific areas.

Nexfibre itself has already covered 2 million premises across the UK with their new full fibre network (here) and many more will follow. Just for some context. Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital Partners originally set up the new £4.5bn nexfibre joint venture in 2022 (here), which aims to deploy an open access fibre network to reach “up to” 7 million UK homes (starting with 5m by 2026) in areas NOT currently served by Virgin Media’s network of 16m+ premises. The funding reflects £3.3bn of fully underwritten financing and up to £1.4bn in equity commitments.