‘Enormously aggressive’: nexfibre leads altnet complaints against Openreach copper-to-fibre discounting

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Connected Britain 2025: As Openreach pulls levers to combat massive broadband losses, and drive fibre adoption alongside, altnet leaders have call out the discount pricing strategy as unsustainable. nexfibre execs have called it an exploitation of the incumbent’s significant market powers, CityFibre warns of structure advantage, plus views from other altnets, rivals…

This article includes:

  • Themes: Broadband migration; Copper retirement; Discount pricing; Fibre adoption; Infrastructure transition; Market competition; Regulatory oversight; Significant market power (SMP); Telecoms Access Review (TAR).
  • Events: Connected Britain 2025.
  • People: Alex Blowers; Allison Kirkby; Ben Harries; Colin Scott; Dana Tobak; Katie Milligan; Mark Shurmer; Robert Burles; Giles Rowbotham; Simon Holden.
  • Geographic: United Kingdom.
  • Organisations: AllPoints Fibre Networks; BT Group; CityFibre; Hyperoptic; INCA; nexfibre; Ofcom; Openreach; VodafoneThree.

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