[some-human]

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.

[fmajid]

There are others. 6 months ago a small ISP called 4th Utility (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.

[martinald]

Ok, 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]

Bingo! I didn't want to name them, to give them free publicity.

[martinald]

I'd be very surprised they are laying copper though. Nearly all of their network expansion has been FTTH.