jadevision
Member
Hi all,
I was just reading this thread on what the behind the scenes look like for full fibre altnets like Community Fibre: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/th...unity-fibre-or-altnet-actually-involve.41147/
I was curious about the other side of this equation - what do operations look like for the companies reselling Openreach full fibre?
Is it just a case of them contacting BT Wholesale, choosing what parts of the equation they want to handle (like customer service), and going to market?
I remember we used to use the term "virtual ISP" or VISP, but haven't heard it for a while. Is that basically what's going on here - they're just interfacing for BT?
I looked at Earth Broadband as they're the first example that came to mind. They have a bit of funding and about 15 employees on LinkedIn. They only have one or two operations managers, so I'm 99% sure they're not running a data centre.
Would they even need to rent/manage servers or would this be handled by whoever the wholesaler is?
I was just reading this thread on what the behind the scenes look like for full fibre altnets like Community Fibre: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/talk/th...unity-fibre-or-altnet-actually-involve.41147/
I was curious about the other side of this equation - what do operations look like for the companies reselling Openreach full fibre?
Is it just a case of them contacting BT Wholesale, choosing what parts of the equation they want to handle (like customer service), and going to market?
I remember we used to use the term "virtual ISP" or VISP, but haven't heard it for a while. Is that basically what's going on here - they're just interfacing for BT?
I looked at Earth Broadband as they're the first example that came to mind. They have a bit of funding and about 15 employees on LinkedIn. They only have one or two operations managers, so I'm 99% sure they're not running a data centre.
Would they even need to rent/manage servers or would this be handled by whoever the wholesaler is?























