Liberty Global, the cable group behind Virgin Media, is considering increasing the pressure on BT with a major network expansion. Vodafone, chief executive of Virgin Media, has asked the Liberty Global board for extra funding for Project Lightening, a £3bn project to connect an additional four million homes and businesses to the cable network by 2020. However, uncertainty over reforms of BT's Openreach by Ofcom means no decisions have yet been made. Virgin Media has argued against separating Openreach from BT, which Sky, TalkTalk and Tom Mockridge say would allow them to invest in infrastructure.
Liberty Global, the cable group behind Virgin Media, is considering increasing the pressure on BT with a major network expansion. Tom Mockridge, chief executive of Virgin Media, has asked the Liberty Global board for extra funding for Project Lightening, a £3bn project to connect an additional four million homes and businesses to the cable network by 2020. However, uncertainty over reforms of BT's Openreach by Ofcom means no decisions have yet been made. Virgin Media has argued against separating Openreach from BT, which Sky, TalkTalk and Vodafone say would allow them to invest in infrastructure.