Nexfibre List FTTP Broadband Upgrades for the Next 4 UK Locations
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with UK ISP Virgin Media (they harness the same build teams), has today confirmed another batch of four locations across the United Kingdom that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP, XGS-PON) broadband technology.
Just to recap. Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia recently reached a deal to acquire rival Netomnia (here). As part of that nexfibre also announced a plan to finance the FTTP upgrade of 2.1 million homes covered by Virgin Media’s old Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network (i.e. those that are “adjacent” to the Netomnia footprint), with VMO2 paying wholesale fibre access fees on its customers in those homes as the fibre becomes available.
Since then nexfibre has been busy announcing a growing number of related HFC to FTTP upgrade areas under the aforementioned 2.1m homes commitment (here, here, here, here and here) and today’s update adds another 4 locations to the ones we’ve already covered.
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Once again, these are places that can often already access gigabit-capable broadband via Virgin Media’s old HFC network, but which will now also be getting access to FTTP via the more open wholesale platform established under nexfibre. All of this will help to connect up their coverage to Netomnia’s nearby areas.
The Latest (23rd April) Nexfibre HFC to FTTP Upgrade Areas
➤ Up to 17,000 homes and businesses in Broxbourne, investing more than £2.7 million.
➤ Up to 17,000 homes and businesses in Calderdale, investing more than £2.7 million.
➤ Up to 14,000 homes and businesses in Adur, investing up to £2.3 million.
➤ Over 13,000 homes and businesses in Ashford, investing up to £2.3 million.
Nexfibre said they would make this network “available to all internet service providers“, which will hopefully result in them enticing more ISPs to join their platform at wholesale, although so far it’s only been accessible via ISPs owned by the same group of companies like giffgaff and Virgin Media.
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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Ashford has lots of Netomnia already and VM HFC.
Whatever they do, more areas with an operator that can’t do IPv6, despite decades of it being around, and an operator who cant peer route with enough bandwidth to Cloudflare in peak times.
Don’t worry, CMA is working hard to get both merged. As a VM customer you will get IPv6, proper peer route and better customer support.
That you wrote this is a reminder you have no idea what you’re talking about.
The access network is nothing to do with the version of IP the wholesale customers use.
The routing to Cloudflare is nothing to do with this.
Never said it was either!!!
VM do have a peer routing issue via Cloudflare right now whilst many other ISPs do not.
And nothing incorrect about BOTH Nexfibre and VM not doing IPV6. Netomnia does, but for how long after Nexfibre absorb them.
Rather than try and pick holes and then accuse people of not understanding over your self promotion, read posts properly and not let your unconscious bias interpret….
‘And nothing incorrect about BOTH Nexfibre and VM not doing IPV6. Netomnia does, but for how long after Nexfibre absorb them.’
The IP version available is down to the ISP not whomever owns the fibre. Nexfibre have IPv6 capability mostly because they aren’t really involved with IP, they run and deliver at the layer underneath. YouFibre running over Nexfibre will be able to use IPv6 fine. Other ISPs with IPv6 support that take Nexfibre wholesale services will be able to run it fine. Nexfibre don’t provide IPv6 they allow others to using their network.
Which you’d know if you had any idea what you were talking about. Thanks for making my point.