Other providers can now start selling to FibreNest addresses, one site at a time
If your home is on a new build estate and FibreNest is the only broadband company you have ever been offered there, something has shifted. As reported by ISPreview, Open Fibre Networks has told its retail partners it has finished the work of joining FibreNest’s fibre network to its own. In practice, that means other providers can start selling to addresses built on FibreNest’s cables.
The background, as ISPreview sets it out: BUUK Infrastructure, which owns Open Fibre Networks, bought FibreNest from Persimmon Homes for a discounted enterprise value of around £100m in May 2025. OFNL’s network was put at an estimated 170,000 premises then and FibreNest’s at around 54,000. FibreNest ends up as one retail brand on the combined network rather than the network itself.
What changes for your address?
Not much this week, and that is the honest part. ISPreview reports that OFNL has started adding FibreNest plots to its address base, with the first site, in an IP9 postcode area, added last week and further sites following over the next few weeks. Providers already on OFNL, among them seethelight, internetTY, 1310 and Direct Save Telecom, should be able to place orders once an address appears. ISPreview also understands that OFNL’s ordering portal does not yet fully support everything providers need after a customer is connected, and that this is expected to be resolved in the same few weeks.
So there is no date to circle, and no notice to wait for. Check rather than assume. An address that has not been added yet will not come back with anything, and that is a queue rather than a refusal.
The limit worth knowing about
A choice of provider is not the same as a choice of network. ISPreview makes the point that much of this newly combined network sits on new build developments where no rival fibre network has been built, so what arrives is competition between retail brands on one set of cables rather than a second company digging up your street. That still tends to help, because it means you can leave a provider without leaving the network. It is a smaller change than a new network arriving, and worth going in with that expectation.
Whether any of it reaches you is a street-by-street question. Our availability checker will show which networks reach your address today, and our guide to broadband on a new build explains why estates like these so often start life with one provider. If it is your provider changing hands rather than your network, what happens in a takeover is the one to read next.