topic Re: Connect to full fibre in Broadband

Connect to full fibre

mandyb3 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:48:59 GMT

Wildanet have recently installed full fibre in my road. I live in a rural area in Cornwall and they are laying the fibre on behalf of Openreach. How do I get connected to this? Can I go through Sky as I am already a customer or do I have to go Wildanet which I would rather not? I have Sky Fibre Max at the moment but it is a part-fibre connection.

Re: Connect to full fibre

TimmyBGood — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:57:30 GMT

@mandyb3

In the UK, Sky doesn't currently use any network other than the national Openreach distribution. They have a carriage deal with CityFibre coming into effect later this year, but you will not be able to get a Sky Broadband subscription over Wildanet infrastructure.

To get connected on FTTP I suspect you'd deal directly with Wildanet as the ISP as well as the cable owner and operator: that's typically the case with smaller altnets.

Re: Connect to full fibre

TimmyBGood — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 16:07:11 GMT

@mandyb3 wrote:

Wildanet have recently installed full fibre in my road. I live in a rural area in Cornwall and they are laying the fibre on behalf of Openreach.

No, probably not. Altnets typically use their own venture capital to lay infrastructure that's effectively in competition with Openreach.

https://wildanet.com/latest-news/wildanet-secures-funding-from-the-cornwall-and-isles-of-scilly-investment-fund-ciosif/

Re: Connect to full fibre

Malarky861 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:00:00 GMT

That is market domination? When one company dominates a market and I am forced to go with them that is not competition.