INCA hails altnet heroes as spectre of overbuild looms
In a punchy, positive report altnet industry group INCA hails “dynamic” altnets on a mission to bring “fairer, faster, and more resilient” connectivity to the UK, but competitive benefits may not be sustainable, and the spectre of ‘supervillain’ Openreach still looms large.
This article includes:
- Organisations: CityFibre; FDM; INCA; KCOM; National Wealth Fund; nexfibre; Ofcom; Openreach; Point Topic; Sky; UK Infrastructure Bank; Virgin Media O2.
- Geographic: Area 3; Britain; Hull; United Kingdom; UK.
- People: Katie Milligan; Paddy Paddison.
- Themes: Access to finance; Altnet; Broadband; Broadband subscriptions; Build ambitions; Commercial demand; Commercialising; Consolidation; Consumer choice; Consumer prices; Consumer transition; Debt financing; Digital infrastructure; Economic environment; Equinox I; Equinox II; Equinox III; Fibre; Fixed infrastructure assets; Funding; Infrastructure competition; Investment; Legacy broadband providers; Legacy ISPs; M&A activity; Market health; Network build; Network coverage; Network coverage targets; Network footprint; Network owners; Network rollout; Network rollout ambitions; Overbuild; Policy; Premises; Pricing; Pricing freedom; Private investment; Project Gigabit; Regulatory policies; Retail competition; Rollout; Rural build; Service providers; State support; Sustainable competition; Take up; Telecoms Access Review; TAR; Volume bundles; Wholesale suppliers.
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