CityFibre hiring Neil McRae as CTIO — why?

Joe Purnell and Alex Birkhead2025-12-10T14:59:00

Source: LINX

In-depth: Former BT Chief Architect looks set to unexpectedly return to UK broadband. Is the largest fibre specialist looking to tap strategist’s deep understanding of incumbent and networks, or more recent experience in cloud and FWA?

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Themes: Acquisitions; Broadband competition; Fibre infrastructure; Fixed wireless access (FWA); Industry consolidation; Leadership transition; Network migration; Point-to-point woreless (P2P); Strategic appointment; Technology integration; XGS-PON upgrade.
People: Greg Mesch; John Franklin; Neil McRae; David Tomalin; Simon Holden; Will Creedy.
Geographic: United Kingdom.
Organisations: Airband; BT Group; Cable & Wireless; CityFibre; Digital Gravity Infrastructure Partners; Demon Internet; Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE); Juniper Networks; London Internet Exchange (LINX); Netomnia; Openreach; Tarana Wireless.

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