{"id":818641,"date":"2026-10-30T12:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818641\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T12:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T12:26:12","slug":"virgin-media-o2-in-talks-to-use-openreach-fibre-network-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/818641\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 in talks to use Openreach fibre network &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Virgin Media O2 in talks to use Openreach fibre network &#8211; report<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-abstract line-clamp-2\" data-v-1e217f04=\"\">\n        Virgin Media O2 is close to agreeing a deal to use Openreach&#8217;s full-fibre network to connect new customers in areas not covered by its own network, reports the Financial Times. According to unnamed sources familiar with the discussions, Virgin Media O2 was also planning to stop upgrading and expanding its own network as part of a wider cost reduction programme, as it looks to ease market concerns about its GBP 22 billion debt burden.\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virgin Media O2 in talks to use Openreach fibre network &#8211; report Virgin Media O2 is close to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}