{"id":37224,"date":"2024-02-16T14:18:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T14:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=37224"},"modified":"2024-02-16T15:41:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T15:41:35","slug":"virgin-media-o2-takes-uk-fibre-broadband-network-wholesale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/02\/virgin-media-o2-takes-uk-fibre-broadband-network-wholesale.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 Takes UK Fibre Broadband Network Wholesale"},"content":{"rendered":"

Broadband ISP Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) and its shareholders (Liberty Global and Telef\u00f3nica) have this afternoon finally announced plans to “create the biggest direct network challenger to BT<\/a> Openreach<\/a> in UK history<\/em>“, which for the first time will open their existing fixed line broadband network up to wholesale by other internet service providers.<\/p>\n

Regular readers will know that Virgin Media<\/a> (VMO2) has long prepared their network to go wholesale by establishing a dedicated fixed network business in the UK (or \u2018NetCo<\/em><\/strong>\u2019 in telco speak), but until now it’s never been clear precisely when they’d press the button.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> VMO2 are in the process of upgrading their existing network to the latest 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP<\/a> \/ XGS-PON) tech – due to complete by 2028 (Project Mustang).<\/div>\n

In this case the new entity, which will be a fully consolidated subsidiary of VMO2 that will “have a neutral impact on the company\u2019s leverage and credit structure<\/em>“, will comprise of the operator\u2019s cable (Hybrid Fibre Coax) and fibre (FTTP<\/a> RFOG and XGS-PON) network assets covering 16.2 million premises across the UK today.<\/p>\n

The move represents a potentially seismic shift in the market, which in one fell swoop provides Openreach<\/a> (BT<\/a>) with a truly major national scale competitor (Virgin Media<\/a>’s network covers around half of UK premises, albeit mostly in urban areas). The move may also have an impact upon how Ofcom<\/a> approaches future regulation across relevant parts of the market and will place additional pressures on other large rivals, such as CityFibre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The structure is also said to give “optionality and flexibility for future in terms of financing and playing a role in potential altnet consolidation<\/em>“, alongside pursuing wholesale opportunities as a scaled network alternative.<\/p>\n

Lutz Sch\u00fcler, CEO of Virgin Media O2<\/a>, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a logical evolution of our fibre strategy that creates a clear, focused and scaled network entity within the Virgin Media O2<\/a> family which underpins our shift to a fully fibre network and reinforces our position as the leading challenger to Openreach<\/a> in the market. Working closely with our shareholders, this network business will provide a platform for potential altnet consolidation and wholesale opportunities in future, offering widescale network choice for other providers, as well as giving financing optionality. While nothing changes today work is well underway and you\u2019ll hear more from us later in the year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, just to be completely clear, VMO2’s mobile assets will not form part of the NetCo, and nexfibre<\/a> (already open to wholesale), the independent fibre joint venture between Liberty Global, Telef\u00f3nica (VMO2’s parents) and Infravia, will continue to operate separately – focusing on fibre network expansion into greenfield areas. Nexfibre<\/a> aims to expand FTTP<\/a> to 5 million premises – those outside of VMO2’s current patch – by 2026 and then possibly up to 7m thereafter.<\/p>\n

Once all planned fibre build is completed, the separate NetCo and nexfibre<\/a> networks will reach a combined total of up to 23 million homes covered by full fibre (c.75% of the UK), which is a little shy of the 25 million that Openreach expects to reach by December 2026. But Openreach also holds an aspiration to go beyond that and potentially toward 26-30m premises by 2030.<\/p>\n

\"VMO2-NetCo-Diagram-from-Investor-Call-on-16th-Feb-2024\"<\/p>\n

Further details and operational timelines will be announced in due course (although it’s not expected to go live until H1 2025 sometime) and subject to any necessary regulatory approvals. In the meantime, the fibre upgrade activity continues unchanged at VMO2.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n

One important point to make here is that it’s never a simple matter for any ISP to hop on to a new wholesale network and make use of it. Most providers in today’s market have spent a long time developing their systems and infrastructure to work with Openreach’s network, but adapting to a new platform can take a lot of time and money.<\/p>\n

The other challenge for ISPs that will choose to make this leap stems from how they go about creating a streamlined set of packages for consumers, without causing confusion with their existing services. Equally, at this stage, it’s difficult to know whether the products from the “new<\/em>” wholesale network will give ISPs as much flexibility as they get from Openreach (i.e. ISPs won’t want to merely resell Virgin’s tiers at the same price).<\/p>\n

Another big question will be in terms of how Ofcom<\/a> reacts. At present Openreach is often beholden to Ofcom<\/a>’s regulatory whims as the dominant national operator, although the emergence of a major new wholesale network changes that a bit. Time will tell, but we suspect Ofcom may need to further soften some of its rules.<\/p>\n

On top of all that we also have to consider the unpredictable impact upon alternative network (altnet) providers, such as Cityfibre<\/a>, which previously only needed to worry about Virgin Media on the retail side of their ISP business. But they’ll now face more competition at the wholesale infrastructure level too.<\/p>\n

Cityfibre<\/a> will need to retain the support of big name ISPs (e.g. Vodafone<\/a> and TalkTalk<\/a>) or their FTTP plans could struggle. Clearly the full fibre battle in urban areas is about to get even more heated and complex than it was before. BT<\/a>’s share price might be another one to watch.<\/p>\n

Finally, if Sky Broadband<\/a> ever chooses to migrate some or all of their customers in overlapped areas to the new NetCo then that would have a huge impact upon Openreach’s bottom line (Sky is tied with VMO2 for 2nd biggest ISP with c.5.7 million broadband customers), although doing that at-scale and in bulk would be a very slow and resource intensive process.<\/p>\n

On the consumer front though such competition could potentially breed both more choice and thus lower prices, although that in turn has a tendency to make the economic models for deploying full fibre even more difficult. Whatever the outcome, the UK’s fixed line broadband market just experienced an earthquake, and it remains to be seen precisely what will happen during the aftershocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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