The latest annual review from the representative trade body of the UK’s alternative broadband providers (altnets), the Independent Networks Co-operative Association (INCA) , has “starkly highlighted” THE benefits of competition in the UK’s broadband sector. The annual Metrics For The UK independent network sector , produced in partnership between the INCA and broadband market intelligence specialists Point Topic , drew on input from both trade association members and non-members. It aimed to an overview of the UK’s independent network operator sector as of end-2022 and early 2023 in terms of scale, coverage, ambitions, and concerns. As in the previous three years, it includes both fixed and fixed wireless network operators. Among the key findings of the report was that private investment continued to flow into the independent network sector over the past year despite the challenging economic conditions and increasing interest rates. Planned investment to 2030 was found to have increased to over £24.2bn. This stressed INCA represented more investment than Openreach owner BT Group at £15bn and Nexfibre’s – a joint venture between Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia Capital Partners) £4.5bn combined – whose own investments and deployments, it added, have been spurred on by competition from the […]
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