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Originally Posted by Jaymoss
Loads of vans on my estate this week so I approached one on the way to the gym today. Asked what was being laid and he told me it was Virgin Media Fibre to the router for future release. Not seen any news on this but not really been taking much notice but interesting
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Virgin are overlaying their HFC with Full Fibre FTTP (incidentally exclusively announced on here by Me several years ago) with XGSPON technology- symmetrical 10G.
They’ll keep the HFC running in parallel for many years.
VM Network Expansion is now done for the NexFibre JV, where VM are paid to design, engineer, build and maintain a full fibre network for a company call NexFibre. VM provide their services over this open access network. They are an anchor tenant, but other companies can use the network, I believe GiffGaff are considering it. It’s the same as Vodafone using the CityFibre network.
Going back to the HFC FTTP overbuild, VM are doing the same thing “on net” as they are with NexFibre by forming a “NetCo”, in which they’ll spin off their network into a separate vehicle allowing others to use their network.