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Mobile and internet provider giffgaff, which initially launched their full fibre broadband packages via nexfibre’s national network in September 2025 (here), has confirmed to ISPreview that new customers in many Fibre Up (Project Mustang) areas on Virgin Media’s national FTTP (XGS-PON) network can now also take their packages.
In case anybody has forgotten, Fibre Up / Project Mustang reflects Virgin Media’s programme of upgrading their old Hybrid Fibre Coax (HFC) network areas to also support 10Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology. This is separate from nexfibre’s build into new areas (those not previously covered by Virgin’s existing networks).
At launch giffgaff could only access part of nexfibre’s newly built network (currently covering a total of 2.4 million UK premises), but ISPreview now understands that this started to change in February 2026 after the provider gained access to some of Virgin Media’s Fibre Up areas too – we assume on the same sort of wholesale terms as via nexfibre.
Currently, giffgaff broadband is now said to be available across more than 4 million full fibre homes (including 2.4m Fibre Up homes), with this footprint continuing to expand. But we should caveat that this doesn’t yet include any of the c.2m HFC areas that nexfibre are due to upgrade to FTTP as part of the £2bn Netomnia acquisition (example), although we’d of course expect that to change in the future.
We should point out that a total of 8.7 million Virgin Media and nexfibre premises (footprint) are now covered by FTTP lines (XGS-PON and some RFOG technology), so there’s still plenty of room for giffgaff’s availability to expand over the coming months and that combined footprint is also continuing to grow more generally.