{"id":820498,"date":"2026-11-01T06:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820498\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T06:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T06:30:18","slug":"uk-weekly-week-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820498\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Weekly &#8211; Week 44"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        UK Weekly &#8211; Week 44<\/p>\n<p class=\"is-abstract line-clamp-2\" data-v-1e217f04=\"\">\n        Virgin Media O2 dominated the week. The Financial Times reported that the operator is close to agreeing a deal to use Openreach&#8217;s full-fibre network and to stop upgrading its own network. Its chief executive also called for a full investigation into BT&#8217;s acquisition of TalkTalk. Separately, the operator completed the first live deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) radio access network technology in the UK with Nokia, while Moody&#8217;s placed its ratings on review for downgrade. The UK state secretary said\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK Weekly &#8211; Week 44 Virgin Media O2 dominated the week. The Financial Times reported that the operator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820498","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\/820498","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=820498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}