{"id":1040512,"date":"2026-10-03T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040512"},"modified":"2026-10-03T08:42:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T03:12:23","slug":"uk-regulator-says-nexfibre-netomnia-deal-could-hurt-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/03\/uk-regulator-says-nexfibre-netomnia-deal-could-hurt-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UK regulator says Nexfibre-Netomnia deal could hurt competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s competition watchdog said on Friday it had provisionally found that Nexfibre&#8217;s acquisition of fibre broadband operator Netomnia could substantially reduce competition in the wholesale supply of fixed broadband services. <\/p>\n<p>Nexfibre, a joint venture backed by Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia, agreed to buy the owner of Netomnia, the country&#8217;s second-largest &#8220;altnet&#8221; fibre network, for \u00a32 billion ($2.7 billion) in February. <\/p>\n<p>Nexfibre said the Competition and Markets Authority&#8217;s findings did not reflect the reality of Britain&#8217;s fibre market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Britain&#8217;s competition watchdog said on Friday it had provisionally found that Nexfibre&#8217;s acquisition of fibre broadband operator Netomnia could substantially reduce competition in the wholesale supply of fixed broadband services. Nexfibre, a joint venture backed by Liberty Global, Telefonica and InfraVia, agreed to buy the owner of Netomnia, the country&#8217;s second-largest &#8220;altnet&#8221; fibre network, for \u00a32 billion ($2.7 billion) in February. Nexfibre said the Competition and Markets Authority&#8217;s findings did not reflect the reality of Britain&#8217;s fibre market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040537,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040512\/revisions\/1040537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}