[gunner45]

VM has 16.2m premises passed by its networks, which used to comprise 14.3m HFC and 1.9m FTTP (all RFoG). Then VM began to overbuild the whole HFC with fibre for XGS-PON in around March 2022 with an end-date of 2028. But by the end of 2025 a large number (10.5m) of HFC remained with only 5.7m FTTP (a mixture of XGS-PON and RFoG), and I don't see how that deadline of 2028 can possibly be met. And to make it worse, it was only around March 2025 that VM began to migrate its HFC customers to its own XGS-PON.

So, with the migration badly delayed it made even more sense to introduce the upgrade of 2Gbps on HFC as competitors are circling, especially as it's being done cheaply with no engineering required.