Broadband ISP Olilo Connects First UK Customers via AllPoints Fibre Networks
New techy-focused broadband ISP Olilo, which only launched a few short weeks ago (here), has this week announced that they’ve just placed their first consumer Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) orders via the aquila platform from AllPoints Fibre Networks’ (APFN). The latter is a wholesale platform that aggregates connectivity from several different full fibre networks.
Despite only onboarding in July 2025, Olilo is already able to place and track full fibre orders to over 20 million UK premises via the aquila portal, its self-service framework. The ISP is also simultaneously preparing to access aquila via the platform’s TM-Forum standard API solution.
The move should make it easier for Olilo to sell broadband packages and even multi-gigabit speeds to homes and businesses covered via a variety of different networks (Openreach, CityFibre etc.).
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Liam Mulryan, Olilio CEO, said:
“Tech experts have been ignored for too long by the fibre industry. We have built Olilo with their needs in mind, but the real win is for everyone. Our experience in running advanced networks means consumers get broadband that simply delivers. It’s fast, reliable and free from the usual headaches. With aquila we can scale that great experience to every customer while the APFN team keep our connections to different network partners seamless in the background.”
Nisreen Elkaloush, Chief Commercial Officer at APFN, said:
“Olilo is a brilliant example of the kind of challenger brand aquila was built to support. Their focus on technical excellence and transparency aligns perfectly with our platform’s capabilities. We’re proud to welcome them and look forward to helping them scale.”
The announcement also mentions that users of aquila will be able to access APFN’s own network (formerly Giganet, Jurassic Fibre and Swish Fibre), although we’re still waiting to see that happen. At present, not even new customers of retail ISPs Cuckoo and Brillband, which are controlled by the same group as APFN, seem able to order packages online over APFN’s own fibre network (we’re told to expect this sometime in the “months ahead“).
Mark is a professional technology writer, IT consultant and computer engineer from Dorset (England), he also founded ISPreview in 1999 and enjoys analysing the latest telecoms and broadband developments. Find me on X (Twitter), Mastodon, Facebook, BlueSky, Threads.net and Linkedin.
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Just checked my own address on their website and it comes back with the message “CityFibre are yet to service this address. If you’d still like to join us, contact us and we’ll look at other alt nets”, not that I’d go within 100 miles of anything to do with All Points Fibre.
Hey! The postcode checker will be fully operations in the next few days. We’re just finishing the dev work with APFN for their live environment
Awesome – Wonder how much this will bring in for Olilio.
Been with Olilo since ditching Yayzi due to their uncertain future.
Been stable as anything apart from having to shift IP Address ranges. Olilo really do have it in gear and are great to do deal with.
Olilo was set up by the founder of Yayzi – i’m sure this will go the same way….
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13799691/officers
I’ll be keeping an eye on this as a ex-Swish current Cuckoo customer. Assuming it will be possible to switch ISPs on APFN’s own network at some point
Worst case it’ll be possible to cancel and sign up with a different ISP, but yeah, I think OTS means that it _should_ be possible.
It’s been more than 3 months now since APFN announced the completion of their network integration and you still can’t order on it. “Sometime in the months ahead” does not inspire confidence.