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London, UK. May 22, 2025. Adtran and Netomnia today announced a major milestone in the evolution of the UK’s broadband market with the first-ever commercial deployment of a 50G PON service. Netomnia is using Adtran’s SDX 6400 Series to upgrade an existing residential customer with an ultra-high-speed service. The deployment is the first of its kind in the UK and will provide real-world insight into how providers can leverage next-generation PON technology to meet growing demand for ultra-high-speed connectivity. The flexibility of Adtran’s SDX 6400 Series enabled Netomnia to easily deploy the service alongside existing PON technologies with no interruption.

“At Netomnia, we’re building a fibre network for whatever comes next — and with the UK’s first commercial 50G PON deployment, we’re proving it,” said Jeremy Chelot, Group CEO of Netomnia, YouFibre and brsk. “This isn’t just about speed; it’s about power. From AI-driven smart homes to lag-free metaverse experiences and tomorrow’s enterprise demands, we’re making sure the most powerful internet lives on our network. Partnering with Adtran, we’re redefining what fibre can deliver — no compromises, no limits, just the future delivered.”

Netomnia, the UK’s second-largest alternative network provider, now serves 2.4 million premises, with YouFibre and brsk connecting 310,000 customers. With an annual build rate of one million premises, the group is on track to reach five million serviceable premises by 2027. Together, Netomnia, YouFibre and brsk have secured £1.5 billion in funding, reinforcing their position as one of the UK’s most scalable and capital-efficient retail, wholesale and consolidation platforms.

The deployment uses Adtran’s SDX 6400 Series, a modular, software-defined OLT platform engineered for high-density environments and advanced service delivery. The solution enables providers to deliver ultra-high-capacity services while seamlessly coexisting with already deployed PON networks. The system’s disaggregated architecture supports open interfaces and network automation, while its energy-efficient, compact design helps operators meet sustainability goals. By delivering 50G PON rates over existing fibre infrastructure, the deployment demonstrates how 50G PON can support future residential services, enterprise access, mobile transport and emerging smart city applications.

“We committed to Netomnia in 2024 that they would be the first provider in the UK to deploy a commercial 50G PON solution. Today, we achieved that milestone, helping them deliver a live ultra-high-speed service to an existing customer,” commented Stuart Broome, GM of EMEA sales at Adtran. “The deployment demonstrates how our SDX 6400 Series empowers operators to scale capacity, accelerate service delivery and support next-generation applications, all while leveraging their existing infrastructure. As demand surges for bandwidth-intensive services like generative AI, 5G backhaul and enterprise connectivity, this project shows how we’re helping partners like Netomnia stay ahead of the curve.”

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Despite weaker sales abroad, BT’s leaner strategy is paying off, resulting in stronger margins 

BT has ramped up its full fibre rollout plans after hitting record build and connection highs during FY25, even as overall revenue declined 2% to £20.4 billion. 

Chief Executive Allison Kirkby described the year as one of “strong progress,” highlighting the group’s network buildout, customer experience improvements, and over £900 million in annualised cost savings.  

BT’s full fibre footprint now reaches 18 million UK premises, with more than 6.5 million already connected, a 36% take-up rate. Openreach passed 4.3 million new premises with full fibre this year, 1.8 million of which are already in use by customers. The company has now upped its FY26 build target by 20% to 5 million, keeping it on course to hit 25 million premises passed by the end of 2026. 

BT’s revenues fell slightly this year, driven by weaker handset sales and international performance, but profit before tax rose 12% to £1.3 billion.  

In mobile, EE retained its crown as the UK’s best network for the eleventh year running, with 5G standalone now live in 50 towns and cities and coverage reaching over 40% of the population. BT’s 5G customer base grew 15% to 13.2 million. 

“BT Group delivered strong progress against its strategic priorities in FY25, as we stepped up the pace of build of the UK’s leading next generation networks,” Kirkby in a company press release. 

“With the leadership team now in place to take our strategy forward, I am confident that as we build and connect at pace, our transformation will accelerate and deliver a better BT for all of us – our customers, our colleagues, the country and our owners,” she continued. 

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Telecoms and broadband giant BT appears to be facing another dispute over workers pay after the Prospect union, which represents a majority of staff at management grades within the UK company, overwhelmingly rejected a “derisory” pay offer from the employer (96% of those who voted elected to reject the offer on turnout of 68%).

According to the union, which represents over 16,000 people working in UK Information Technology and Telecoms (including a significant portion of BT staff), the pay offer presented by BT reflected an “average of 1.24%, less than half the rate of inflation, with 28% getting no pay rise at all“.

The union appears to have been further irritated by yesterday’s publication of BT’s results, which saw the operator increase its dividend at the same time as being in a dispute with staff over pay.

Rachel Curley, Deputy General Secretary of Prospect, said:

“BT’s decision to increase its dividend at the same time as giving a derisory or non-existent pay rise to managers shows the disregard they have for Prospect members.

People will be incensed that when 28% of managers are being offered a 0% pay rise, and the offer is worth 1.24% on average, the company has taken this decision to increase dividends.

The overwhelming rejection this week of the insulting pay offer shows the strength of feeling among our members. We have subsequently notified the employer that we are now in a formal trade dispute with them in the hope that BT will now offer a fair deal.

If an acceptable offer does not materialise in the coming weeks, we will be looking at all options available to us.”

A BT spokesperson said:

“The pay proposal presented to Prospect allocated the budget we had available in the fairest way possible, awarding a 3 percent increase to managers whose pay is least competitive compared to the market range for their role, with lower awards for those who are more competitively paid versus the market. We use independent third-party pay data to ensure our market ranges are up to date, and review this on an annual basis.”

Readers may recall that BT’s last big bust up with a union occurred between 2021 and 2022, when tens of thousands of related members of the Communications Workers Union (CWU) engaged in several bouts of national strike action against the company, before a deal was ultimately agreed.

At the time, some of the same managers now complaining about their pay, via Prospect, were known to toe the company line against striking CWU workers, which probably won’t win them much sympathy from the operator’s wider workforce this time around. The hope still exists that both sides can come to an agreement before things take a turn for the worst.

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The UK Government’s Minister for Telecoms, Sir Chris Bryant, this week provided more details to parliament on how Ofcom would soon improve the accuracy and relevance of their mobile coverage maps, which made particular reference to the minimum required 4G mobile broadband speed (currently 2Mbps) – this will shortly be more than doubled to 5Mbps.

A few months ago ISPreview reported on how Ofcom said they’d been “working hard to overhaul our mobile coverage checker” in order to better match people’s real-world experiences (here), particularly of modern 4G and 5G (mobile broadband) services. At the time, we noted that the regulator intend to launch the result of all their work “later this year“, but we weren’t given a solid date.

The regulator’s existing Mobile Coverage Checker is currently based on predictions from the mobile network operators themselves (EE, Vodafone, Three UK and O2). Such predictions are generated using computer programs that simulate the way mobile signals travel from mobile masts and are blocked by any obstructions such as hills, trees, and buildings. But as we all know, this isn’t always very reliable.

At present, we already know that the improved checker will use higher signal strength thresholds when presenting local predictions, while also providing clearer explanations of the issues and the specific functions of the web-checker. Ofcom also intends to assess predicted signal strength information at a more granular level (50 or 25 square metres, instead of the current 100 square metres) to determine if it is possible to reduce the local uncertainty to some extent.

However, this week saw Sir Chris Bryant reveal that, from “about the middle” of June 2025, Ofcom would start reporting on mobile network coverage using a required minimum data speed figure of 5Mbps (Megabits per second).

Sir Chris Bryant said:

“Reporting of mobile coverage is something that frustrates many of us. The Ofcom site may say, “96% of all four networks available everywhere across the whole of your constituency,” but I say, “No, you can’t get a signal anywhere in Hannah Street in the middle of Porth—end of story.” I have been in discussion with Ofcom, and we have exchanged letters, which I have placed in the Library of the House of Commons, about how it is going to change its reporting.

That reporting has historically been based in part on two things: first, the coverage predicted by the mobile phone companies, which might not necessarily match people’s experience; and, secondly, 2 megabits per second, which frankly is of no earthly use to anybody — most of us now want 5 megabits per second.

From about the middle of June, Ofcom will be reporting across the whole of the country on 2 megabits per second and 5 megabits per second, so people will have a much clearer understanding of the situation on the ground. I hope that might drive further commercial investment from the mobile phone operators, which will say, “You know what? We need to make sure we have more masts in this area, because frankly it’s not good enough.””

Leaving aside the fact that “hope” is not a strategy (i.e. the reference above to all mobile operators boosting commercial investment in poorly served areas), the move to adopt both a 2Mbps and 5Mbps measure for 4G is useful, although even 5Mbps seems a bit archaic by modern standards. But it is important to reflect that this a minimum, and operators are still expected to do better.

The fact that the 2Mbps figure is still being retained may, however, cause some confusion for consumers. But we suspect they’re taking that approach in order to avoid changing the targets – mid-flight – for existing rules and programmes, such as the £1bn industry-led Shared Rural Network (SRN) project.

Lest we forget that the regulator is also still examining the use of measured data, including crowdsource data, to build on these coverage predictions. Finally, once the new checker has launched, Ofcom will move to consider undertaking a larger scale performance measurement programme to complement coverage predictions and further enhance their mobile reporting.

As a side note, one MP also asked Chris whether the government planned to cut (i.e. in their future Spending Review) any of the £2bn that remains unspent within their £5bn Project Gigabit broadband roll-out scheme. But the minister did not know the answer to that as such things tend to be decided by HM Treasury.

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Alternative network ISP CommunityFibre (CF) has finally published – much earlier than before – their full annual accounts to the end of 2024. The results reveal that their 5Gbps speed full (FTTP) broadband network ended the year with a coverage of 1.342 million homes (plus c.200k businesses) and residential customers of 336,000 (25% take-up). But employees fell to 737 (2023: 930).

The provider, which is currently being backed by funding of around £1bn, has had a rough couple of years due to the rising cost of build, strong market competition and high interest rates (a common challenge in the market). All of this has caused a previous slowdown in network build and related redundancies (here and here), which resulted in CF pivoting their strategy to focus more on growing customer uptake.

However, earlier this month CF published a preview of their annual accounts (here), which did highlight some positives (e.g. going EBITDA positive). But we’ve had to wait a couple more weeks before Companies House published the full report, which finally enables us to give a wider summary of their results.

The good news is that that their greater focus on commercialisation is indeed starting to pay off. In particular, take-up on the residential side of their Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network seems to have grown from 14.2% in 2022, to 17.2% in 2023 and in 2024 they’ve now finally gone a shade above 25%. But we can also see the impact of prior redundancies and losses.

Summary of Community Fibre’s 2024 Results

➤ Total committed debt facility of £810m, with £714m drawn

➤ Revenue grew by 82.2% to £76m (2023: £41.7m)

➤ Gross profit increased by 87% to £65.9m (2023: 86% and £35.8m)

➤ Total employees fell to 737 (2023: 930)

➤ Total losses before tax fell to £118.5m (2023: £134.6m)

➤ Residential premises passed grew to 1,342,000 (2023: 1,288,000)

➤ Residential customers connected grew to 336,000 (2023: 222,000)

➤ Total non-current assets of £629.32m (2023: £604m)

➤ Total current assets of £36.84m (2023: £35.9m)

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In a major shift for one of the UK market’s largest retail ISPs, Sky Broadband has quietly begun introducing a new, albeit not currently cheaper, range of Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based home broadband packages that harness CityFibre’s alternative national network. Previously, Sky only sold packages via Openreach’s network.

The agreement with CityFibre was first officially revealed in August 2024 (here), although it’s taken Sky this long to introduce the new packages because they’ve had to get all of their systems, support and services ready to cater for the added complexity of selling to millions of customers via two different networks.

In theory, Sky should benefit from the deal by virtue of the fact that they’ll be able to launch faster (symmetric speed) and more competitively priced full fibre broadband packages into areas currently covered by CityFibre’s network (these will be given preference in areas of overbuild with Openreach).

On the flip side, CityFibre should benefit by virtue of gaining access to another of the market’s largest retail broadband providers (they already work with TalkTalk, Vodafone, Zen Internet and others), which has the potential to significantly increase take-up (over time) on their new network – boosting the business case for future investment.

At the time of writing, Sky has not yet put out an official announcement, thus the above development was spotted this week during ISPreview’s routine ISP listings update and then confirmed by several other members of our community who had run checks on their own areas. In short, if you live in a CityFibre area, then you’ll now see their packages instead of Openreach’s (i.e. it’s available to new customers, but we’re not yet sure about re-contracting users, which will need another engineer visit to fit the new fibre + ONT modem).

However, the main benefit from this for consumers currently seems to be in terms of CityFibre’s superior upload speeds (symmetric), since at present Sky appears to be using identical pricing to their Openreach tiers and has also not launched any faster packages than 1Gbps (we do expect faster packages to follow).

CityFibre’s packages are usually cheaper than Openreach’s at wholesale, which should save Sky some money, albeit at the cost of being less competitive with other ISPs on the same network. On the other hand, Sky’s existing pricing is already fairly attractive, so this may not be such a big concern.

One other consideration is that, at the time of writing, Sky does not appear to be listing a new router and so it currently looks as if the Sky Max Hub is still their primary device of choice for the new service too (awaiting confirmation of this). But they will need something better when they start pushing into future multi-Gigabit plans.

The move may worry Openreach, which has previously worked hard to keep Sky Broadband on their side (the earlier Equinox discounts on FTTP may have played a role in that effort). The operator now risks losing even more market share to alternative networks and at an increasingly rapid pace.

However, the growing competition could also make it easier for the BT Group to argue with Ofcom that Openreach should be allowed to respond with greater FTTP discounts or softer regulation, which may become a factor in the current Telecoms Market Review (TAR) process.

UPDATE 8:50am

Take note that Sky hasn’t yet made their CityFibre plans available via comparison sites, thus you’ll need to go directly to their website, otherwise only the Openreach results may show.

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The move marks another step in the company’s Latin American retreat 

Telefónica has agreed to sell its entire stake in Telefónica Móviles del Uruguay to Millicom for $440 million, continuing its withdrawal from Latin America. 

The company confirmed the agreement in a regulatory filing this week, stating that Millicom Spain will acquire 100% of its Uruguayan mobile business, which operates under the Movistar brand.  

The deal remains subject to typical regulatory approvals but is not expected to face objections.  

Movistar is Uruguay’s second-largest mobile operator, accounting for nearly 29% of country’s total mobile usage. 

The sale is part of Telefónica’s broader plan to streamline operations and focus on investment in 5G and digital infrastructure in key markets, core markets, Spain, Brazil, Germany, and the UK, as well as tackling its €26 billion debt pile. The company has exited several Latin American markets this year, selling assets in El Salvador, Argentina, Peru, and Colombia, and merging operations in others.  

It is also currently exploring options to divest its Chilean unit. 

For Millicom, which operates under the Tigo brand across Latin America, the acquisition strengthens its presence in the region and aligns with its ambition to expand into more markets. 

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AT&T has reached a $5.75 billion deal to acquire fiber assets from Lumen Mass Markets

By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities

A deal between AT&T and Lumen will see AT&T acquire “substantially all” of Lumen’s Mass Market fiber business, AT&T has announced.

The news, revealed yesterday by AT&T, will be an all-cash transaction that will significantly expand AT&T investment in connectivity infrastructure, according to AT&T.

Assets included in the deal are roughly 1 million fiber subscribers across 4 million fiber locations, according to AT&T’s May 21 release.

AT&T’s CEO, John Stankey, said the deal will create jobs and spur economic activity in metro areas across 11 states.

His comments were included in AT&T’s announcement.

“We’re leading the race to connect more Americans with fiber, the best broadband connectivity technology available,” Stankey said. “As we advance our fiber build, we’ll serve more communities with world-class connectivity and expect to roughly double where AT&T Fiber is available by the end of 2030.”

AT&T’s release said the deal will see the acquired assets held by a new, fully owned subsidiary named NetworkCo.

“It is expected that along with the fiber assets, certain employees will move, or receive offers to move, from Lumen to AT&T or NetworkCo as a part of this deal,” AT&T’s release stated.

Additionally, Lumen’s enterprise customers and copper-based customers of Mass Markets are not part of the agreement, according to AT&T.

The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2026. The deal also remains subject to regulatory approval, AT&T’s release explained.

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The CEO of a Louisiana broadband construction firm has called out Donald Trump’s Sec. of Commerce in an open plea for an end to BEAD delays

By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities

Frustration only continues to grow in rural Louisiana as a result of BEAD delays, as evidenced by the latest plea for action from Caleb Etheridge, the founder and CEO of EPC.

Etheridge’s company, a broadband construction firm in rural North Louisiana, has suffered significantly due to delays to the government’s $42.45 billion broadband buildout, according to the firm’s CEO.

In his letter, the second such plea from EPC in less than a month, Etheridge calls on Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick to stop stalling the program, which was created by Congress as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law of 2021.

‘You’re not keeping your word’

Etheridge says the damaged faced by Lutnick’s delay “will not be reversible.”

Click here to read Etheridge’s full letter to Lutnick

“I’m writing to you now because what’s happening in Washington is actively threatening everything we’ve built,” he writes. “To say it very plainly and remove any inferences, you’re not keeping your word.”

Etheridge’s letter further stated that he’s not writing to complain. Instead, he says he’s writing to warn.

“It’s too late to play political games,” his letter reads. “And if this continues, I will shine an even brighter light on the harm you have caused, along with my federal delegation who nodded in agreement in private rooms but stood silently when it was time to be courageous.”

Etheridge also writes that it’s ironic that Lutnick’s delay is being done in the name of government efficiency.

“This is infrastructure you can see, measure, and audit in real time, and we did it 40% under budget,” he wrote.

The letter also takes aim at the notion that low-Earth orbit satellite is a more suitable replacement for fiber.

“Go tell that to my barber, whose state-of-the-art satellite connection drops and buffers all through the day,” the letter reads. “And, he was the lucky one that had ‘a clear view of the sky’ from his rooftop.”

BEAD delay forces EPC into layoffs

The most recent letter follows up a similar appeal to Lutnick in April.

That letter, penned by EPC co-owner Josh Etheridge, said EPC had already been forced into layoffs due to the delay.

As previously reported, Louisiana has been highly impacted by an ongoing review to the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program called by Lutnick.

The review, announced with a statement from Lutnick in March, said the Dept. of Commerce was looking for “ways to cut government red tape that slows down infrastructure construction.”

“In 2021, Congress created the BEAD Program to expand Americans’ access to high-speed internet,” Lutnick previously wrote. “But, years later, because of the prior administration’s woke mandates, favoritism towards certain technologies, and burdensome regulations, the program has not connected a single person to the internet and is in dire need of a readjustment.”

Lutnick, at the time, also said his review intends to result in “ripping out the Biden Administration’s pointless requirements.”

Louisiana bears brunt of BEAD delay

In 2024, Louisiana notably became the first to award BEAD funds through a state program called GUMBO 2.0 (Granting Unserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities).

It was also the first state to gain approval for their initial BEAD proposal.

As of April, EPC had reported that they’ve had to release 80% of their subcontractors due to the delay. Additionally, the company reported having to make a pause in philanthropic giving and even said full-time employees had begun to face layoffs.

Meanwhile, Etheridge is just the latest company leader from Louisiana to sound the alarm. Previously, the CEO of Louisiana-based SkyRider Communications and David Herring, the founder and CEO of ClearPath Fiber, have also penned similar letters, all calling on Lutnick to end the delay at once.

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Alternative broadband operator Netomnia, which is supported by retail internet providers YouFibre and Brsk, has today become the first UK network operator to go live with a commercial deployment of 50Gbps capable 50G-PON based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) technology (real-world speeds of up to c.40Gbps are expected for homes and businesses).

Just to recap. The network access provider, which has already extended their full fibre network to reach 2.4 million UK premises (RFS) and 310,000 customers, currently aims to expand their network to reach 3 million premises by the end of 2025 and then 5 million by the end of 2027 (inc. 1 million customers by 2028). The service is currently available across parts of over 90 UK cities and towns.

The network technology they’ve been using for this infrastructure, XGS-PON (The ‘X’ stands for 10, the ‘G’ for Gigabits’, the ‘S’ for symmetric speed and PON means Passive Optical Network), is already capable of delivering symmetric speeds up to 10Gbps. Indeed, YouFibre already have a 7-8Gbps package for homes, which costs just £99.99 per month on an 18-month term with free installation.

However, Netomnia have made no secret of the fact that they’d also like to be the first UK broadband network to launch commercial packages using Adtran’s 50Gbps (50G-PON) kit (here), which was initially being targeted – somewhat ambitiously – for a launch by the end of 2024. But getting bleeding edge kit like this to market is no mean feat, and Adtran have previously acknowledged supply-side issues that have slowed progress (here).

The good news today is that Adtran appear to be getting a handle on the supply of their new SDX 6400 Optical Line Terminals (OLT) and associated services, which has enabled Netomnia to launch their first commercial 50G PON network and claim bragging rights in the process.

Jeremy Chelot, Group CEO of Netomnia, YouFibre and brsk, said:

“At Netomnia, we’re building a fibre network for whatever comes next — and with the UK’s first commercial 50G PON deployment, we’re proving it. This isn’t just about speed; it’s about power. From AI-driven smart homes to lag-free metaverse experiences and tomorrow’s enterprise demands, we’re making sure the most powerful internet lives on our network. Partnering with Adtran, we’re redefining what fibre can deliver — no compromises, no limits, just the future delivered.”

Stuart Broome, GM of EMEA sales at Adtran, said:

“We committed to Netomnia in 2024 that they would be the first provider in the UK to deploy a commercial 50G PON solution. Today, we achieved that milestone, helping them deliver a live ultra-high-speed service to an existing customer.

The deployment demonstrates how our SDX 6400 Series empowers operators to scale capacity, accelerate service delivery and support next-generation applications, all while leveraging their existing infrastructure. As demand surges for bandwidth-intensive services like generative AI, 5G backhaul and enterprise connectivity, this project shows how we’re helping partners like Netomnia stay ahead of the curve.”

Take note that a combination of issues like network overheads and advertising rules mean that this service, once live as a product, isn’t currently likely to be promoted as offering download speeds of greater 40Gbps. Not that anybody is going to complain about that, and there isn’t an independent web-based speedtest in existence that can currently give an accurate result for such a service, yet.

Naturally, going faster than 10Gbps will also require a new ONT (optical modem) to be installed in your home/office, as well as a monster router (details not yet known). But suffice to say that this is going to be more akin to premium business kit than something you could easily buy off Amazon. It’s not for everybody.

On the other hand, this isn’t just about those top speeds, and Netomnia will also be using 50G PON to underpin their existing network and speed tiers too. The fact it exists is impressive, although at the time of writing the announcement doesn’t make mention of any new consumer packages, but we know they’re coming and the 10Gbps+ era is now upon us.

The usual catch in all this is the difficulty of actually being able to harness all that speed when online. Most internet services still seem to struggle to harness more than 1Gbps (1000Mbps), assuming they can do even that, while the multi-gigabit domain remains a luxury product (Why Buying Gigabit Broadband Doesn’t Always Deliver 1Gbps). But technological evolution rarely waits for the slowest users.

Naturally, there will always be those who find reason to moan, even when a network provider does something as striking as this. But such developments are also the reason why Netomnia are one of the most exciting fixed broadband networks in the UK, which is in no small part down to their willingness to push the boundaries of technology – often while setting new benchmarks for consumer speeds and affordability.

However, Netomnia aren’t the only UK provider with plans to launch packages using 50G PON technology. Welsh ISP Ogi has expressed a similar desire for 2025 (here) and various other networks have trialled 50G-PON (examples here and here), albeit while giving few details about their own plans for a future commercial launch.