22^nd July 2024: Strategic Imperatives, the UK market leader in SaaS provisioning, connectivity and monetisation solutions for the telecom industry, has today announced that UK Altnets Trooli and OFNL have joined its Fibre Café platform. This move enables both companies to leverage the platform’s unified interface into the UK’s growing FTTx ecosystem, gaining a strategic advantage and unlocking new opportunities in the wholesale market.

Trooli and OFNL join a growing list of Altnets and service providers utilising The Fibre Café to streamline access to the UK’s FTTx ecosystem at a national level. Together, Trooli and OFNL collectively bring an additional 500,000 premises to The Fibre Café platform.

Wail Sabbagh, Managing Director at Strategic Imperatives, commented: “We are thrilled to welcome Trooli and OFNL to The Fibre Café and look forward to supporting their wholesale growth as a key partner. By joining the platform, both network owners gain a significant competitive advantage through streamlined onboarding, enhanced automation, and direct access to a rapidly expanding pool of service providers.”

Having focused its own FTTx rollouts in rural and semi-rural postcodes, Trooli has captured hundreds of thousands of premises to date. Joining The Fibre Café marks the first step in Trooli’s wholesale strategy headed up by Wholesale Director, Rhiannon O’Neill, following her appointment to the role last year.

Andy Conibere, CEO at Trooli, said: “We are delighted to be joining The Fibre Café which enables us to further deliver upon Trooli’s wholesale strategy, by enabling smooth interoperability between us and our wholesale partners, partners who will already have access to 370,000 Ready for Service Premises, with more to come on the Trooli network! With The Fibre Café becoming the de facto standard for supporting scalable connections between network owners and service providers, we are excited to be working in partnership with Strategic Imperatives as we enter this next phase of our wholesale strategy.”

As the first independent company to own and operate fibre networks for the delivery of residential broadband services in mainland UK, OFNL specialises in ultrafast fibre networks on new-build housing and commercial developments which are ready the day the occupier moves in. Founded as an open-access wholesale operator from its inception, OFNL is always looking to automate the Lead To Cash process with its existing ISPs and welcome new ISPs through the streamlined access provided by The Fibre Café.

Andrew Robinson, Managing Director at OFNL, commented: “At OFNL, our wholesale-first strategy has already attracted over 80 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to offer a wide range of residential and business packages on our network. We look forward to working with The Fibre Café to empower our ISPs to automate their provisioning process and further streamline the onboarding process for new ISPs joining our expanding network.”