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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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