Congestion charge: Ocado leads push against ‘money making’ levy Retail More than 40 UK businesses, including Ocado, the AA, and Openreach, have urged Sadiq Khan to scrap plans to extend the £15 daily congestion charge to electric vans. The businesses argue that this hugely unpopular congestion charge if continued, would severely impact those who have invested in greener fleets. Under Transport for London (TfL)’s current [...]
‘It can be spaghetti out there’: can Cityfibre take on BT? telecoms The UK’s altnet industry is a tangled mess of “spaghetti” – at least, that’s how the boss of Cityfibre put it earlier this year. Altnets, or alternative networks, such as Cityfibre, Gigaclear and Community Fibre, have emerged as competitors to the UK’s broadband giants Virgin Media O2 and Openreach. Despite their smaller scale, they have [...]
Cityfibre: Network provider hits profitability in challenge to BT Openreach and Virgin Media Telecoms Cityfibre recently announced its acquisition of network provider Lit Fibre, which has boosted its full fibre rollout by up to 300,000 sites.