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The CEO of UK ISP Zen Internet, Richard Tang, has conducted a new interview with the Openreach’s new CEO, Katie Milligan, which touches on everything from the stumbling blocks to expanding FTTP broadband to 30 million UK premises by 2030, to Ofcom’s block of a key fibre discount, the capacity problem facing the analogue phone switch-off and altnet competition.
The interview itself, which also covers the proposed nexfibre acquisition of Netomnia (note: it was done before the CMA provisionally moved to block that deal), doesn’t contain too many surprises. But there were a few interesting remarks that we’d like to highlight for our readers.
The first remark concerns Openreach’s build targets for their full fibre broadband network. At present the operator is aiming to reach 25 million premises by the end of December 2026, which Katie seemed confident would be achieved. At the present pace of build the operator is already approaching the c.24m mark and we think they’ll probably get to around 24.6m+ by the target, which will probably be close enough to call it a win.