Nexfibre Publish Q3 2025 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update – 2.44M Premises
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some parentage with ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, has published their latest quarterly Q3 2025 build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.44 million UK premises. But future deployments beyond 2025 remain uncertain.
Just to recap. Back in 2022 Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia Capital Partners setup nexfibre as a new £4.5bn joint venture (here), which aimed to deploy an open access (wholesale) full fibre network to reach “up to” 7m UK homes (starting with 5m by 2026) in areas NOT served by Virgin Media’s own network of 16m+ premises. The funding reflects £3.3bn of fully underwritten financing and up to £1.4bn in equity commitments.
However, as existing readers will already know, nexfibre’s roll-out plan recently suffered a significant blow after Telefonica launched a Strategic Review of their global business (here and here). The decision has since resulted in nexfibre scaling back their planned roll-out – now aiming to reach just 2.5m premises in 2025 (down from c.3m).
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The latest Q3 2025 build update from nexfibre continues to reflect this change and confirms that their full fibre network has now reached 2.44 million premises as ready for service (up from 2.3m in Q2). In addition, this week’s publication of Telefónica’s Strategic Plan for the future (here) suggests that we may soon get a better idea of what approach nexfibre will be taking for 2026 and beyond.
Rajiv Datta, CEO of nexfibre, said:
“nexfibre continues to make strides in expanding full-fibre broadband to communities across the UK that have historically been underserved. With our network now reaching over 2.4 million premises, we’re proud to be one of the largest alternative fibre providers in the country.
Our optimised rollout strategy is progressing as planned, powered by the dedication and agility of our exceptional team and trusted partners. Together, we’re building a technologically-advanced, XGS-PON-only network designed to meet the needs of future generations.
With the backing of committed investors and robust financial support, we remain focused on developing a wholesale fibre platform that will be instrumental in driving market consolidation and unlocking the full potential of the UK’s digital infrastructure.”
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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They forgot to say probably one of the most over priced ALTNETS too 🙂 (bar current Black Friday pricing!). Yearly price increases that milk customers every year, and non-transparent renewal pricing that is completely random, and often more expensive than everyone else is in my view……
No yearly price increases and very transparent pricing as far as I know with Nexfibre’s reseller giffgaff.
@FANNY ADAMS: You don’t know the prices of nexfibre as it’s strictly a wholesaler. The customers contract with ISPs who use nexfibre, namely Virgin Media and Giffgaff, who set their own prices.
VM still control Nexfibre, dont care what they “seem to do” to make it look like they dont.
Giff Gaff is to hook people in hence monthly rolling contract, as they can bin it later. I would not be surprised if it became VM only at a later stage once ALTNETS out of the way.
Sorry but I do hate nexfibre – it a big NO from me.
Hate is a strong word for a company you probably can’t buy services from.
Why?
I’ll be waiting for Giffgaff to go national on Nexfibre’s network.
Lets hope they can offer a decent price for 500mbps, and look at offering symmetric speeds as well.
Will be interesting to see if any other companies decide to use Nexfibre as well, so we can see some proper competition to VM.
i believe all giffgaffs products are symmetric.
200mb is £30, 500mb £32 and 900mb £35 on a monthly rolling contract.
Would like to see cheap 500mbps on available Giffgaff.
I think Giffgaff’s plans are excellent value bearing in mind that there are no setup costs, they are rolling monthly contracts and speeds are symmetrical. Availability is reported to be limited to North West England, Yorkshire and the Humber and East Midlands, with a rollout in the North East in October and further locations later.
FAST, 200 Mbps download and 200 Mbps upload speeds for £34/month
FASTER, 500 Mbps down and up for £36/month
FASTEST, 900 Mbps down and up for £39/month
giffgaff broadband prices are now £30,£32 and £35