At the end of June, Virgin Media Business Wholesale hosted a networking evening for UK altnets to share their ambitions and challenges, given the rapid expansion of gigabit-capable services in recent years.
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VMO2’s Project Lightning has added pace in Q2 2022, passing 114,000 additional premises, up from 101,000 in Q1 2022 and 89,000 in Q2 2021.
Openreach has achieved a record quarterly build, passing 763k premises for the three months to June 30th 2022 and has also notched net adds of 302k.
FullFibre is now offering services to residents in Cheadle, having begun rolling out fibre in the Staffordshire market town in December 2021.
CityFibre's £80m investment into Swindon's digital infrastructure could unlock a £1.3bn economic boost for the city, according to a report by Hatch.
Netomnia will target a further 292,500 premises across Purfleet, Mansfield, Coatbridge and Bedford, with a collective investment of £87.5m.
Proximity Data Centres is joining forces with VMO2 Business to deliver dark fibre and optical high-capacity services across its nine facilities.
Truespeed has connected 300 businesses in the south west to full fibre, as it looks to help bolster the region’s economic prosperity and post-covid recovery.
The Griffin Inn has become Broadway Broadband’s first connection in Dale Village as the altnet pledges to supply all 224 local properties with full fibre.
CityFibre will use the support of Nokia and Calix to deploy 10Gbps XGS-PON access technology across the entirety of its UK network from 2023.