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Openreach lobbies for regulatory flexibility as fibrecos take market share, struggle with debt

2025-08-28T16:28:00

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Source: Openreach

Openreach’s regulatory lead is twisting Ofcom’s arm to give it pricing freedom in regions where it faces two rivals. VM O2 and CityFibre contend that a firm hand is required to protect still fragile competition. While altnets are winning market share, their lenders are nervous…

This article includes:

  • Themes: Altnets; Competition; Customer acquisition; Deregulation; Equinox; Fibre competition; Fibre regulation; Fibre rollout; Fundraising; Gigabit broadband; Infrastructure expansion; Investment; Market power; Regional pricing; Regulatory flexibility; Rollout target; Significant Market Power; Wholesale pricing.
  • Events: Telecoms Access review (TAR); Westminster eForum; Wholesale Fixed Telecoms Market Review (WFTMR).
  • People: Alex Blowers; James Tickel; Mark Shurmer.
  • Geographic: London; North East Scotland; Northern Ireland; Scotland; UK.
  • Organisations: BT Group; CityFibre; Community Fibre; Fibrus; G.Network; Gigaclear; GoFibre; Hyperoptic; Lloyds; NatWest; Netomnia; nexfibre; Ofcom; Openreach; TelcoTitans; UK Investment Bank (UKIB); Virgin Media O2 (VM O2); Wildanet.

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