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Network operator nexfibre, which shares some of their parentage with Virgin Media (they harness the same build teams), has today revealed another batch of seven locations across the United Kingdom – reflecting a total investment of £12.2m and 76,600 premises passed – that will benefit from an upgrade to their latest full fibre (FTTP – XGS-PON) broadband tech.
Just to recap. Telefónica, Liberty Global and InfraVia announced a deal to acquire rival Netomnia in Feb 2026 (here). As part of that nexfibre also announced a plan to finance the FTTP upgrade of 2.1 million homes covered by Virgin Media’s old Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network (i.e. those that are “adjacent” to the Netomnia footprint), with VMO2 paying wholesale fibre access fees on its customers in those homes as the fibre becomes available.
Since then nexfibre has been busy announcing a growing number of related ‘HFC to FTTP’ upgrade areas under the aforementioned 2.1m homes commitment (here, here, here, here, here and here) and today’s update adds another seven areas locations to the ones we’ve previously covered.
Latest (22nd May 2026) Nexfibre HFC to FTTP Upgrade Areas
➤ More than 11,000 homes and businesses in Thurrock, via an investment of £1.8m+.
➤ Up to 11,600 homes and businesses in East Lothian, via an investment of £1.9m+.
➤ Up to 12,000 homes and businesses in South Kesteven, via an investment of £1.9m+.
➤ Up to 17,000 homes and businesses in Calderdale, via an investment of £2.7m+.
➤ Up to 8,000 homes and businesses in West Lothian, via an investment of £1.3m+.
➤ Up to 9,000 homes and businesses in County Durham, via an investment of £1.4m+.
➤ Up to 8,000 homes and businesses in Gravesham, via an investment of £1.2m+.
As usual, nexfibre has pledged to make this network “available to all internet service providers“, which will hopefully result in them enticing more retail internet provider to join their platform at wholesale. But so far, it’s only been accessible via ISPs owned by the same group of companies, like giffgaff and Virgin Media.