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    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Ofcom allows BT’s Openreach to lower prices despite fierce pushback

      New model for clients including Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone not a threat to competition, regulator says

      An engineer for Openreach opens his van door
    • Wednesday, 29 March, 2023
      Anna Gross
      Fibre infrastructure is not a ‘natural monopoly’

      Altnets have boosted UK broadband coverage but incumbent BT will still fight for growth

      Openreach van
    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      BT Group Plc
      BT chief warns Openreach fibre push will ‘end in tears’ for rivals

      Telecoms group’s competitors race to lay fibre networks across UK before incumbent

      BT’s headquarters in London
    • Wednesday, 14 December, 2022
      BT’s Openreach reveals plan to cut broadband rates for providers

      Move sparks backlash from alternative fibre networks

      A network engineer from Openreach testing a residential telephone line outside
    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      Openreach cutbacks hit expansion of UK ultrafast fibre network

      BT division suspends work on future projects as it seeks savings amid high inflation

    • Saturday, 29 October, 2022
      BT’s Openreach looking at lowering cost of wholesale broadband

      Network which sells to multiple internet service providers faces increasing competition

      An Openreach engineer works on a underground cable network as a pedestrian walks by
    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      UK Broadband
      UK ‘altnets’ risk digging themselves into a hole

      Overbuilding poses threat to business model of fibre broadband groups challenging the big incumbents

      Workers dig up the ground in Pimlico, London, to install fibre cables
    • Tuesday, 14 June, 2022
      InterviewUK Broadband
      BT executive says Brexit is slowing superfast broadband rollout

      Openreach head hits out at ‘tortuous’ process of hiring skilled workers from the EU

      An Openreach engineer attaching fibre optic cables to a control unit
    • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
      News in-depthUK Broadband
      ‘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

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

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

    • Monday, 29 November, 2021
      Helen Thomas
      BT bid hopes look detached from reality

      Shares jumped even though Reliance Industries knocked down talk of bid for UK telecoms company

      BT logo
    • 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

      Vodafone logo on a telecommunications mast
    • 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

    • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
      Helen Thomas
      BT needs strong chair to handle Altice’s Drahi

      The French-Israeli billionaire has bought a 12 per cent stake and says he is there to help

    • 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

      BT’s Openreach is extending fibre to an additional 560,000 premises a quarter, according to the company
    • 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

      Openreach engineer testing a residential phone line
    • Thursday, 18 March, 2021
      UK Broadband
      Ofcom paves way for UK’s rapid upgrade to fibre broadband

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

      An engineer for Openreach attaches fibre optics to a control unit in Chelmsford, UK
    • Friday, 18 December, 2020
      UK Broadband
      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

    • 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

    • Monday, 5 October, 2020
      UK Broadband
      TalkTalk hits out at BT over delays to deal on ultrafast fibre

      Challenger broadband player warns of hit to competition

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      News in-depthBT Group Plc
      Will BT sell the family silver in its hunt for cash?

      With a costly fibre rollout, the telecoms group has held talks with investors about its network plans

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      LexUK Broadband
      BT Group: far horizons Premium content

      For those seeking a quick return, with no dividend coming soon, UK company remains a value trap

      BT is worth almost a third less than regulator Ofcom’s £14bn conservatively valued regulated asset base for Openreach
    • Tuesday, 24 March, 2020
      Broadband users face switching barriers under UK lockdown

      BT Openreach engineers to prioritise ‘essential’ work and avoid unnecessary home visits

      BT Openreach has asked the largest internet providers that use its network to 'limit the movements of end customers between networks'
    • Wednesday, 18 March, 2020
      LexUK Broadband
      Broadband/home working: inglorious isolation Premium content

      Much of Britain still relies on a cranky local network of copper wires

    • Friday, 14 February, 2020
      News in-depthUK Broadband
      Ultrafast broadband answers Salisbury’s prayers

      Cathedral city has proved a learning curve for Openreach’s engineers

      Kerry Cunningham, clerk of works for the chief engineers, tests Openreach's new optical fibre connections with a lightmeter in the cathedral close, Salisbury. 06/02/2020 - Photograph by Sam Frost ©2020 - www.samfrostphotos.com
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