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BT Openreach

  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    BT’s Openreach pushes Labour for easier access to flats in fibre rollout

    Group wants existing agreements with landlords to be extended to automatically permit full-fibre upgrades

    An Openreach engineer works on phone lines in a residential street in London
  • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
    BT Group Plc
    BT warns over broadband customer losses as competition hots up

    Challenger groups or alternative network providers threaten BT’s market share

    A BT Openreach engineer works on a telephone line
  • 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'
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