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  • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
    News in-depth
    ‘Altnets’ take on incumbents in fight for UK fibre broadband customers

    CityFibre’s Milton Keynes rollout highlights how challenger groups are competing with Openreach and Virgin Media O2

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Virgin Media O2
    Virgin Media O2 chief warns BT had ‘better watch out’ in broadband fight

    Lutz Schüler singles out incumbent as telecoms groups race to roll out faster fibre networks

  • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
    Virgin Media O2 plans fibre joint venture in broadband push

    Challenger to BT wants to roll out new network covering an additional 7m homes

  • Tuesday, 14 December, 2021
    LexBT Group Plc
    BT/Altice: Drahi will struggle to split off Openreach Premium content

    The stratagems that have made tycoon powerful in France translate poorly into English

  • Thursday, 11 November, 2021
    Vodafone Group PLC
    Vodafone widens UK broadband footprint with capacity deals

    Contracts with BT and CityFibre enable Europe’s largest provider to increase its reach across domestic market

  • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
    BT Group Plc
    BT updates savings target and trims spending outlook

    UK telecoms group reinstates dividend as it awaits the next move of its largest shareholder

  • Monday, 23 August, 2021
    Abu Dhabi wealth fund poised to take stake in CityFibre

    Mubadala and arm of Ikea in talks to take stakes that would value UK ‘alt-net’ at about £2bn

  • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
    Virgin Media Ltd
    Virgin Media O2 to upgrade entire UK network to full fibre

    Cable group plans latest upgrade to broadband infrastructure to take on BT and alt-nets

  • Monday, 26 July, 2021
    Fibre broadband ‘gold rush’: can the UK’s alt-nets pull it off?

    Smaller rivals to incumbent BT have attracted billions from investors but must now deliver

  • Wednesday, 14 July, 2021
    BT Group Plc
    BT pledges 5G will cover almost all of UK by 2028 despite Huawei ban

    New targets come weeks after rival operators Virgin Media and O2 sealed a merger

  • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
    BT Group Plc
    Altice bets on UK fibre with £2bn BT stake

    Patrick Drahi’s group becomes largest shareholder in UK telecoms operator

  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    Helen Thomas
    How the UK fibre frenzy leaves BT playing defence on broadband

    Money is pouring into fibre forcing established players to accelerate their own plans

  • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
    LetterOne backs £1bn UK broadband plan to compete with BT

    Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s group to finance fibre network rollout to 1m premises in eastern England

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    Newly merged Virgin Media O2 ‘ready to fire’ at incumbent BT

    Newly combined telecoms company seeks partners for fibre expansion

  • Thursday, 13 May, 2021
    BT Group Plc
    BT hunts for funding partners in fibre broadband expansion

    Telecoms group plans to reach 25m homes by 2026 at cost of £15bn

  • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
    Virgin Media Ltd
    O2-Virgin Media £31bn merger cleared by UK competition watchdog

    Telecoms deal agreed last year judged unlikely to lead to higher prices

  • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
    Adventurous InvestorDavid Stevenson
    Towercos signal the prospect of healthy returns

    Digital infrastructure Reits have high valuations, but serve a sector with accelerating demand

  • Monday, 29 March, 2021
    Rural England struggles to secure state broadband subsidies

    Communities face missing out on popular voucher scheme as deadline looms for applications

  • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
    Ofcom paves way for UK’s rapid upgrade to fibre broadband

    Market review will stimulate infrastructure investment, but also trigger price rises

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
    BT Group Plc
    BT urges UK government to cut business rates on new fibre lines to hit broadband target

    Telecoms group says pledge to remove onerous planning laws must be honoured

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    UK infrastructure
    UK ‘gigabit’ broadband rollout under fire from MPs

    Warning that strategy will result in rural internet users suffering slow speeds for years

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    Openreach to create 5,300 jobs next year in broadband fibre push

    BT division the latest UK telecoms company to unveil hiring plans for network upgrades

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC
    Toscafund to take TalkTalk private in £1.1bn deal

    Hedge fund that is UK broadband group’s second-largest shareholder wins backing from founder Charles Dunstone

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
    Altnet boom continues as G.Network raises £1bn for fibre upgrades

    London-focused telecoms company wins backing from Universities Superannuation Scheme

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    BT Group Plc
    BT fined £6m for breaking bidding rules in Northern Ireland

    Regulator Ofcom launched probe after complaint from rival Eir over award of public sector telecoms contract

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