{"id":952209,"date":"2025-08-04T06:52:54","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=952209"},"modified":"2025-08-04T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T01:28:09","slug":"liberty-global-says-virgin-media-o2-will-still-play-role-in-consolidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/04\/liberty-global-says-virgin-media-o2-will-still-play-role-in-consolidation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Global says Virgin Media O2 will still play role in consolidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Liberty Global said Britain&#8217;s Virgin Media O2 &#8211; its joint venture with Telefonica &#8211; would still play a role in fibre consolidation after the Spanish company said a plan to spin off the network had been scrapped. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do see us playing a role in altnet (alternative fibre networks) consolidation, which was one of the main benefits of the Netco project that we were exploring together,&#8221; Chief Executive Mike Fries told analysts after the group reported second-quarter results on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Liberty Global said Britain&#8217;s Virgin Media O2 &#8211; its joint venture with Telefonica &#8211; would still play a role in fibre consolidation after the Spanish company said a plan to spin off the network had been scrapped. &#8220;I do see us playing a role in altnet (alternative fibre networks) consolidation, which was one of the main benefits of the Netco project that we were exploring together,&#8221; Chief Executive Mike Fries told analysts after the group reported second-quarter results on Friday.<\/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-952209","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\/952209","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=952209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}