Nexfibre List FTTP Broadband Upgrades for 7 Further UK Locations
Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with Virgin Media (they harness the same build teams), has today revealed another batch of seven locations across the United Kingdom – reflecting a total investment of £12.2m and 76,600 premises passed – that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP – XGS-PON) broadband tech.
Just to recap. Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia announced a deal to acquire rival Netomnia in Feb 2026 (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, here and here) and today’s update adds another seven areas locations to the ones we’ve previously covered.
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Latest (22nd May 2026) Nexfibre HFC to FTTP Upgrade Areas
➤ More than 11,000 homes and businesses in Thurrock, via an investment of £1.8m+.
➤ Up to 11,600 homes and businesses in East Lothian, via an investment of £1.9m+.
➤ Up to 12,000 homes and businesses in South Kesteven, via an investment of £1.9m+.
➤ Up to 17,000 homes and businesses in Calderdale, via an investment of £2.7m+.
➤ Up to 8,000 homes and businesses in West Lothian, via an investment of £1.3m+.
➤ Up to 9,000 homes and businesses in County Durham, via an investment of £1.4m+.
➤ Up to 8,000 homes and businesses in Gravesham, via an investment of £1.2m+.
As usual, nexfibre has pledged to make this network “available to all internet service providers“, which will hopefully result in them enticing more retail internet provider to join their platform at wholesale. But 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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“available to all internet service providers“
Not even Telefonica are taking them up on this offer.
It’s not about “take up” it’s about getting the back haul infrastructure in place, as vmO2 has always been a close network.
Ppl always hate on VM but use VM everyday and don’t even know it.
Mark, we have Virgin in the next street and now have Youfibre, Now I know they won’t give us tis but do you think they will ever open up Netonmia to allow multi ISP’s? Because if so that would be good
They will, that’s the ultimate plan to allow third party ISP, but most of them are under contracts with CF and BT.
I wonder how those Vodafone-nexfibre talks are going. Not heard anything about it since it leaked to the press.
We keep hearing that nexfibre it totally going to be a wholesale fibre network but it just never seems to happen lol
Vodafone is in talks but not with nexfibre, rather it’s with Virgin Media Business Wholesale (internally known as “VMO2 Fixed Wholesale”). This unit handles all the marketing and sales for wholesale access to VM and nexfibre’s XGS-PON running over fibre with nexfibre focusing on its network building and doing zero marketing.
The lack of an official Vodafone-nexfibre announcement right now is the classic ‘dog that didn’t bark in the night.’ If Vodafone just wanted access to VMO2’s standard footprint, a deal would be signed by now. The silence proves that the deal is explicitly contingent on the Netomnia acquisition. Until that £2 billion merger clears its Phase 1 regulatory hurdles and officially closes later this summer, VMO2 cannot legally sign a contract guaranteeing Vodafone access to Netomnia’s 3 million homes.
And let’s be clear that Netomnia matters a lot as its acquisition pushes nexfibre’s targeted footprint up to 8 million premises (and a combined footprint with VMO2 of 20 million). This will the second national‑scale network, exactly the scale which Vodafone is looking for in order to pressure both Openreach (to stop dictating prices) and CityFibre (to offer deeper wholesale discounts to protect Vodafone’s anchor tenant status).
I tend to view VMO2 and nexfibre as being the same company. They’re closely linked, not just in terms of ownership, but also what ISPs are currently offered over their network.
More AI copy/paste, Roger?
@Polish Poler: I’ll be quite interested if you can provide a prompt which will cause an AI chatbot to generate my reply. FYI: I take a great interest in technology subjects and had a lengthy career in IT, I’ve happily shared what I know for decades in multiple forums starting long before AI or even Google emerged.
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