nexfibre refuses to blink as CMA deadline for remedies passes
In-depth: UK fibreco’s owners have refused to offer remedies for the proposed Substantial takeover, challenging the antitrust authority’s view of how competition would develop without the deal and putting pressure on the regulator to reconsider its Ofcom-informed assumptions.
This article includes:
- Themes: Alternative fibre networks (altnets); Competition regulation; Fibre broadband; Fibre consolidation; Fibre investment; Merger and acquisition (M&A); Open access; Private infrastructure investment; Regulatory counterfactual; Wholesale broadband.
- People: Rajiv Datta.
- Geographic: UK.
- Organisations: Advencap; BT; CityFibre; Competition & Markets Authority (CMA); DigitalBridge; Grain Connect; Hyperoptic; InfraVia Capital Partners; Liberty Global; Netomnia; Nexfibre; Ofcom; Openreach; Platform X Communications (PXC); Sky; Soho Square Capital; Substantial Group; TalkTalk; Telefónica; Virgin Media O2.
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