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In a surprising development, it’s being reported that Virgin Media<\/a> (O2<\/a>) are allegedly close to reaching a deal that would enable them to extend their UK broadband coverage by harnessing Openreach<\/a>’s (BT<\/a>) national Full Fibre (FTTP<\/a>) network for new customers, albeit only in areas they don’t yet serve with their own fibre. But Virgin’s existing FTTP<\/a> upgrade scheme would stop.<\/p>\n

At present Virgin Media<\/a> and nexfibre<\/a>’s combined UK broadband network already reaches a total of around 19 million Homes Serviceable (both share some of the same parentage), which includes around 9 million served via their full fibre (FTTP<\/a> – XGS-PON and RFOG) lines and the rest using legacy Hybrid Fibre Coax<\/strong> (HFC \/ DOCSIS<\/a> 3.1) infrastructure. But there are around 32 million potential premises across the UK.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Openreach<\/a>\u2019s full fibre network has so far covered around 24 million UK premises (23.4m recorded in July 2026<\/a> \u2013 rising 514,000 in the quarter) and remains on-track to hit their 25m target. The service is currently seeing strong take-up of 40% and holds a tentative ambition to reach up to 30m premises by 2030 (the build plan for 2027 – 2030 has not yet been revealed).<\/div>\n

Virgin Media<\/a> also has an ongoing upgrade programme (Project Mustang<\/strong> \/ Fibre Up<\/strong>), which has been slowly working to harness their existing cable ducts in order to make FTTP available across their existing HFC estate too. The original goal was to complete that work by the end of 2028, but that target hasn’t been mentioned for a while (likely shelved).<\/p>\n

The previously agreed \u00a32bn deal to acquire Netomnia<\/a> would have helped to expanded the coverage of nexfibre<\/a>’s side of this FTTP network to 8m premises by the end of 2027 (currently 2.6m) and unlocked a \u00a33.5bn investment in the UK market \u2013 while also assisting in the upgrade of 2.1 million of Virgin Media\u2019s premises from cable (Hybrid Fibre Coax) to full fibre (FTTP) broadband. But recent developments suggest that this agreement may be rejected by the CMA<\/a> on competition grounds.<\/p>\n

The above provides some context for a new report in the Financial Times<\/a> (paywall), which claims that Virgin Media are set to halt both the planned upgrade of their existing HFC network and future deployments of new FTTP infrastructure – partly due to the need to make c.\u00a3600m of significant cost cuts<\/a> and ease pressure from a c.\u00a322bn debt mountain.<\/p>\n

Instead, the report claims that VMO2 are close to reaching an agreement that would enable them to harness Openreach<\/a>’s existing FTTP network in areas the operator doesn’t yet serve itself. All of those involved have so far declined to comment on the report.<\/p>\n

However, it’s worth noting that the CMA have not yet made a final decision on whether to clear or block the proposed Netomnia<\/a> deal with nexfibre<\/a>, thus there could be some tactical merit in leaking these discussions to the media as a way of highlighting VMO2’s own counterfactual to a rejection of that deal – one where Openreach’s biggest competitor ultimately becomes more dependent upon the national incumbent, while stopping it’s own fibre build and upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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