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  • ‘It can be spaghetti out there’: can Cityfibre take on BT?

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    The UK’s altnet industry is a tangled mess of “spaghetti” – at least, that’s how the boss of Cityfibre put it earlier this year. Altnets, or alternative networks, such as Cityfibre, Gigaclear and Community Fibre, have emerged as competitors to the UK’s broadband giants Virgin Media O2 and Openreach. Despite their smaller scale, they have [...]

    Cityfibre is in the midst of an investment phase but slow take up rate has left analysts questioning if it can generate sustainable returns.
  • Mark Kleinman: Britain’s fibre infrastructure proves hard to digest

    Business

    Mark Kleinman is Sky News’ City Editor and the man who gets the Square Mile talking in his weekly Morning Wire column. Today, he looks at the UK’s altnet sector, a jilted housebuilder and Thames Water’s leaky boardroom. Britain’s fibre infrastructure proves hard to digest Time to hang up? That’s the way many investors feeling about [...]

    Mark Kleinman is Sky News' City Editor and writes a column for Morning Wire

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