Netomnia Build FTTP Broadband Network in Wednesbury to 65,000 Premises
Broadband network operator Netomnia (Substantial Group), which has deployed their own full fibre (FTTP) network to cover 3 million UK premises RFS (inc. 460,000 customers), have announced that their long-running roll-out across the large West Midlands (England) town of Wednesbury has now reached 65,000 premises (RFS).
The original deployment was first announced all the way back in November 2022 (here), which saw the operator proposing to invest up to £30.6 million in order to cover 102,000 homes and businesses across Wednesbury. Clearly they’ve now delivered over half of the local roll-out plan, although it’s unclear when they intend to reach completion.
The work forms part of Netomnia’s goal of reaching 5 million premises by the end of 2027 (inc. 1m customers by 2028), although their future plans now seem likely to be impacted by the proposed consolidation deal with nexfibre’s parents (here); assuming it gets the green light from the competition authority. Both nexfibre and Virgin Media already have significant coverage of the same town and much of that has been overbuilt by Netomnia.
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Billy Ray, FNO Manager at Netomnia, said:
“Delivering over 65,000 premises serviceable from the Wednesbury Exchange is a significant milestone for our build programme in the West Midlands. This achievement reflects our continued commitment to investing in infrastructure that delivers lasting value for communities.”
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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The fact nexfibre is acquiring Netomnia makes these announcements from the latter largely pointless. Plus, if the customer service reviews are anything to go by, YouFibre isn’t a company worth moving to, especially if anything goes wrong [which seems to happen frequently now].
@Some Edinburgh Guy
If that’s the case they will fit well in VMs model of absolutely chaotic horrible customer service! I was moving and engaged with YouFibre however the house move fell through and could I cancel the order! Took 5 days to get through to someone that could help and he wasn’t even the right team, he just did it out of my frustration.
I wonder if Netomnia have overbuilt mostly Nexfibre or mostly VMs HFC network. Doesn’t seem ideal if it’s Nexfibre, but handy if it’s HFC
Mostly the VMO2 HFC network I believe.
My suspicion is that once the deal clears (and it’s not likely to be significantly knocked-back / amended with the pro-growth push from the Government), that where nexfibre (as will-be when combined) is overbuilt with VMO2 HFC, VMO2 will push customers onto the the fibre as fast as possible, and then effectively abandon HFC in those areas, whilst nexfibre continues to build. Any areas where there’s no overlap, VMO2 will continue with upgrading HFC to fibre then, again, abandon the HFC infrastructure. I suspect that at some point VMO2 will separate the consumer business from the engineering side, and combine the remains of the VMO2 infrastructure (e.g. the areas with no overlap which have been converted to fibre) with nexfibre (the original nexfibre areas, plus the VMO2 HFC overbuilt areas) to create a large-scale competitor to Openreach.
pointless update thats Cleary media propaganda