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Virgin Media does not use Openreach, and they lay FTTC and then uses multi-core copper (coax) from the cabinet to the home. Although they're the only FTTC that
by some-human 4y ago
Virgin Media does not use Openreach, and they lay FTTC and then uses multi-core copper (coax) from the cabinet to the home. Although they're the only FTTC that roll their own as far as I know. The other non openreach are Hyperoptic and Gigaclear and they provide FTTH.
- martinald 4y agoOk, correct, I was thinking of FTTC as in VDSL. I haven't heard of VM being "FTTC" before. Though even most of VMs new rollout is actually FTTH, albeit RFoG (for now).
- odiroot 4y agoBingo! I didn't want to name them, to give them free publicity.
- martinald 4y agoI'd be very surprised they are laying copper though. Nearly all of their network expansion has been FTTH.
- fmajid 4y agoThere are others. 6 months ago a small ISP called 4th Utility (https://the4thutility.co.uk/ https://the4thutility.co.uk/) wired my building. I think it’s GPON, their max offering is 300 Mbps symmetrical, which is a whole lot better than OpenReach’s lousy “super fast fibre” that painfully did 40 down and 8 up despite promising 72 down.