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    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Virgin Media O2 cuts revenue guidance as consumers curb spending

      UK telecoms group warns customers are less willing to upgrade or buy new phones

      A Virgin Media O2 montage
    • Wednesday, 6 September, 2023
      Telecoms
      Virgin Media O2 buys Russian-backed broadband provider

      Investment company LetterOne was forced to sell the business on national security grounds

      A Upp boradband worker climbs a poll
    • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
      News in-depth5G networks
      UK in danger of falling behind on 5G, analysts warn

      Rollout of high-speed mobile networks hit by factors including limited investment and disruption from ban on Huawei kit

      Montage including photo of woman using smartphone
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      Virgin Media O2 to axe 2,000 jobs in UK

      Reductions come after sweeping job cuts at telecoms rivals Vodafone and BT

      A montage of Virgin Media and O2 logos
    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Telecoms
      UK telecoms groups accused of overcharging ‘bundle’ customers

      Virgin Media O2 calls on rivals to stop ‘swindling’ consumers in cost of living crisis

      O2 and Virgin Media logos
    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Virgin Media O2 fires starting gun on sale of stake in masts business

      UK’s largest mobile tower network may be valued at up to £3bn

    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Cat Rutter Pooley
      An inflation wheeze is dialling up sales for telecoms providers

      Innocuous-sounding increases of 3.9% plus inflation are a key element of improving results at BT, Vodafone UK and Virgin

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      Virgin Media O2 secures £4.5bn investment to expand fibre footprint

      Owners Telefónica and Liberty Global joined by investment firm InfraVia Capital Partners

      Fibre optic cables
    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      Virgin Media O2 submits bid for UK rival TalkTalk

      Approach values privately held group at £3bn and could create UK’s second-largest broadband company

      TalkTalk’s logo outside its London headquarters
    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      UK Broadband
      UK ‘altnets’ risk digging themselves into a hole

      Overbuilding poses threat to business model of fibre broadband groups challenging the big incumbents

      Workers dig up the ground in Pimlico, London, to install fibre cables
    • Sunday, 20 March, 2022
      News in-depthUK Broadband
      ‘Altnets’ take on incumbents in fight for UK fibre broadband customers

      CityFibre’s Milton Keynes rollout highlights how challenger groups are competing with Openreach and Virgin Media O2

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    • Friday, 18 February, 2022
      Virgin Media O2 chief warns BT had ‘better watch out’ in broadband fight

      Lutz Schüler singles out incumbent as telecoms groups race to roll out faster fibre networks

      Lutz Schüler, chief executive of Virgin Media O2
    • Sunday, 30 January, 2022
      UK Broadband
      Virgin Media O2 plans fibre joint venture in broadband push

      Challenger to BT wants to roll out new network covering an additional 7m homes

    • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
      Virgin Media Ltd
      Virgin Media O2 to upgrade entire UK network to full fibre

      Cable group plans latest upgrade to broadband infrastructure to take on BT and alt-nets

    • Friday, 4 June, 2021
      News in-depthTelecoms
      Lutz Schüler answers a £31bn call of duty at Virgin Media O2

      Telecoms veteran vows to take on BT as CEO of newly merged group

      Lutz Schuler at a Virgin Media office
    • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
      UK Broadband
      Newly merged Virgin Media O2 ‘ready to fire’ at incumbent BT

      Newly combined telecoms company seeks partners for fibre expansion

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