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Virgin Media Business UK Preps Symmetric Speed Broadband Plans

19th May, 2026 (0 Comments)

Broadband ISP Virgin Media Business (VMB) looks as if it might soon catch up with their consumer division. ISPreview has spotted that the provider are preparing to introduce three new packages for small business customers, which will all offer symmetric speeds via their latest XGS-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network.

Study Highlights UK Competition Challenges of Netomnia’s Acquisition by Nexfibre

8th May, 2026 (24 Comments)

A new study from Point Topic has examined the impact on infrastructure level competition from nexfibre’s £2bn move to acquire full fibre broadband operator Netomnia (here). The analyst suggests that consumers in overlapping areas could see reduced infrastructure-level competition and less aggressive pricing over time, which may impact the Competition and Markets Authority‘s (CMA) assessment of the deal.

Virgin Media O2 UK Broadband Users Fall by 5.6k as Full Fibre Build Stalls UPDATE

1st May, 2026 (40 Comments)

Network operators Virgin Media and O2 (VMO2) have today published their latest Q1 2026 results and revealed that their gigabit broadband network increased its UK coverage by just 6,400 premises in the quarter (down from 115.1k in Q4), while related consumer customers fell to a total of 5,446,100 (down by -5.6k in Q1 2026). VMO2’s total mobile base also fell to 46.44m.

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Nexfibre List FTTP Broadband Upgrades for the Next 4 UK Locations

23rd April, 2026 (5 Comments)

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.

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CMA Begin UK Competition Probe of Netomnia’s Acquisition by VMO2’s Owners UPDATE

23rd April, 2026 (11 Comments)

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has this morning launched an initial review of the proposed £2bn acquisition (here) of alternative full fibre UK broadband operator Netomnia (Substantial Group) by the parents of nexfibre and Virgin Media (O2) – Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia.

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Nexfibre List FTTP Broadband Upgrades for Another 7 UK Locations

20th April, 2026 (10 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with broadband ISP Virgin Media (they harness the same build teams), has today confirmed another batch of seven locations and regions across the UK that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP, XGS-PON) broadband technology. Technically it should be 8 locations, but we already wrote about one.

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Nexfibre Invest £2.9m to Upgrade 18,000 Homes in Darlington to Full Fibre

17th April, 2026 (5 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build engine), has today announced a £2.9 million investment in the large County Durham (England) town of Darlington to help upgrade 18,000 homes to full fibre (FTTP) broadband. The work is linked to the planned acquisition of altnet Netomnia.

Alternative UK Broadband Networks May Have to Hike Prices to Survive

15th April, 2026 (7 Comments)

The Senior UK Plus Analyst for Point Topic, Veronica Speiser, has reportedly warned that smaller alternative broadband networks may have to raise their average revenue per user (ARPU) to approximately £45 per month just to breakeven. But most altnets are currently said to have ARPU’s of between £25 and £35, while larger operators operate within a wider range of £30 to £50.

Nexfibre Invest £44m to Upgrade 318,000 Premises in Greater Manchester to Full Fibre

9th April, 2026 (3 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build teams), O2 and giffgaff, has today announced a £44 million investment in Greater Manchester to help upgrade 318,000 premises to full fibre (FTTP) broadband. The announcement relates to the planned acquisition of “fellow ‘altnet’” Netomnia.

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Nexfibre Confirm FTTP Broadband Upgrades for 7 Further UK Locations

7th April, 2026 (13 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with Virgin Media (harnessing the same build teams) and giffgaff, has today followed up the recent announcements for Crawley and Bradford (here) by announcing a further seven UK locations – reflecting a total of 226,000 premises at a cost of £31.7m – that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP / XGS-PON) broadband technology.

Nexfibre Invest £6.8m to Build FTTP Broadband to 42,000 Crawley Premises UPDATE

1st April, 2026 (5 Comments)

Following on from this morning’s announcement of nexfibre’s network expansion across Bradford (here), we’ve now spotted that the operator also appears to have announced a similar £6.8m deployment to reach “up to” a further 42,000 premises in the West Sussex (England) town of Crawley with their full fibre (FTTP) network.

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Nexfibre Invest £10m to Build FTTP Broadband to 61,000 Bradford Premises

1st April, 2026 (13 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which is in the process of merging with Netomnia (here) and shares some of its parentage with ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, appears to have announced a new investment of £9.9m to expand their full fibre broadband network across 61,000 premises in Bradford (West Yorkshire, England).

Nexfibre to Cover 1,456 UK Youth Centres with Free 2Gbps FTTP Broadband

26th March, 2026 (2 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of its parentage with its ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, plan to expand on their original commitment to offer as many as 1,000 youth centres across the UK access to their full fibre network for free. But following the planned acquisition of Netomnia (here), they now expect to reach a further 456 centres.

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Giffgaff Launch Cheaper 24 Month UK Full Fibre Broadband Contracts

17th March, 2026 (14 Comments)

Mobile and internet provider giffgaff has today expanded their range of monthly rolling fixed full fibre (FTTP) broadband plans by introducing the option of a cheaper 24-month minimum contract term. The move makes the monthly pricing on each of their packages between £3 and £4 cheaper. Existing members will also get 3 months of service for free.

Virgin Media O2 Eye Vodafone UK Wholesale Broadband Deal and Lament Price Hikes

9th March, 2026 (21 Comments)

Telecoms giant VMO2 (Virgin Media and O2) is reportedly engaged in talks with VodafoneThree (Vodafone and Three UK) over a possible wholesale broadband deal, which would enable Vodafone UK to sell packages to consumers via Virgin/nexfibre’s growing full fibre (FTTP) network. Separately, VMO2’s CEO has admitted that O2’s move to hike prices for existing mobile users “wasn’t the best decision“.

Nexfibre Publish Q4 2025 UK Full Fibre Broadband Build Update – 2.6M Premises

26th February, 2026 (26 Comments)

Network operator nexfibre, which shares some parentage with its UK ISP partners Virgin Media (O2) and giffgaff, has just published their latest quarterly Q4 2025 build update and confirmed that their new 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network now covers 2.6 million UK premises. But future expansion looks set to come from consolidation.

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Housing Developer Hampers Ferndown Homes from Getting Gigabit Broadband

25th February, 2026 (22 Comments)

A small group of homes in the East Dorset (England) town of Ferndown have effectively been denied access to a new gigabit broadband network because a local housing association, which owns a crucial piece of land, are only willing to grant Virgin Media’s (nexfibre) engineers a wayleave (legal access agreement) for an individual property; not the wider area.