Greg Mesch, Jan. 23 -- a deal that has brought a commitment to extend full-fiber networks to 8 million properties, up from a previous target of 5 million, and piled pressure onto BT-owned Openreach.
"As you said, we were a headache and we've now punched them in the kidneys," he chuckles, referring to some pugilistic imagery in Light Reading's original take on the news. "But we do want to be nicer now."
It's no wonder. BT is not just CityFibre's largest individual competitor but also a prospective future customer, says Mesch. The former state-owned monopoly -- which Britain's Labour Party threatened to nationalize before it lost December's general election -- is both wholesaler and retailer, offering broadband services on its Openreach-bra...