{"id":989598,"date":"2026-02-04T07:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989598"},"modified":"2026-02-04T07:50:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:20:22","slug":"virgin-media-o2-owners-in-talks-to-buy-uk-broadband-rival-netomnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/04\/virgin-media-o2-owners-in-talks-to-buy-uk-broadband-rival-netomnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 owners in talks to buy UK broadband rival Netomnia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Virgin Media O2&#8217;s owners \u2060are in advanced talks to buy UK-based Netomnia, two people familiar with the \u200cmatter \u200csaid, in a step towards expected \u200cconsolidation of UK altnet providers. <\/p>\n<p>Telefonica and Liberty Global have teamed up with private equity firm InfraVia Capital to buy the broadband network through their jointly owned fibre \u200cbusiness Nexfibre \u200dfor about 2 billion \u200dpounds ($2.73 billion), the Financial Times reported on \u200cTuesday. A deal could be announced later this week, the report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Virgin Media O2&#8217;s owners \u2060are in advanced talks to buy UK-based Netomnia, two people familiar with the \u200cmatter \u200csaid, in a step towards expected \u200cconsolidation of UK altnet providers. Telefonica and Liberty Global have teamed up with private equity firm InfraVia Capital to buy the broadband network through their jointly owned fibre \u200cbusiness Nexfibre \u200dfor about 2 billion \u200dpounds ($2.73 billion), the Financial Times reported on \u200cTuesday. A deal could be announced later this week, the report added.<\/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-989598","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\/989598","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=989598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}