Virgin Media UK Expand FTTP Broadband to 6,000 Homes in Falconwood
Network operator nexfibre and supporting retail broadband ISP partner Virgin Media (O2), which share some of the same parentage, have today announced that they’ve expanded the reach of their symmetric 2Gbps speed capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to more than 6,000 homes in the Falconwood area of South East London for the first time.
The area is currently already well covered by Openreach’s and CommunityFibre’s gigabit-capable FTTP broadband networks, not to mention some smaller deployments by Hyperoptic. But there should still be enough room in the local market for Virgin Media’s network, even if they are arriving a bit late to the party.
Nexfibre itself has already covered over 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 their 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.
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Without modem mode on the HUB 5x which allows you to EASILY use your own router with double NAT situation, I would wonder why anyone would pick VM over Community Fibre which is symmetric speeds by default without an additional add-on price like VM, and is cheaper anyway. There is no traditional DVB-C TV service as just VM Flex which is IPTV, and no copper landline for the phone service.
Basically, pay a lot more for VM and not use your own router on their XGS-PON Nexfibre network. Ways round that with SFP modules but extra cost and know-how and VM could shut those down easily later on…
What’s worse is that just this morning VM’s CS said to me that modem mode was supported on the 5X, but asking elsewhere they said VM was wrong.
In my case, the lack of a modem mode is seriously making me not want to go for them for faster upload speeds due to the hassle it would cause and it’s OR or VM/NF where I live.
Had zero issues using the Hub 5x, and using my own AP/Switchs. Works as needed. I need nothing more from it.
should say “without double NAT situation” in my above reply. Typo.