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Romania’s strong connectivity is the product of decades of community-built networks, early fibre adoption and a very different regulatory environment. Yet “worse than Romania” is a comparison that the British press keeps returning to when discussing the UK’s own telecom shortcomings. Adam Hughes asks: what can we learn from Romania’s experience, and what does the comparison reveal about our assumptions?

As customers face higher costs for worse connectivity services, do the UK’s big telcos have to worry about losing business to the altnets? And what can they learn from the smaller firms changing the face of fibre?

Open Access models are levelling the playing field for operators by offering a convenient plug-and-play infrastructure without heavy capital expenditure. In the third and last part of this blog series, Mukesh Binani looks closely at the revenue model, technical architecture, key features and implementation of Open Access in Fibre Networks.

Open Access Networks (OAN) help telcos leverage the power of the sharing economy and accelerate progress through a collaborative approach. As OANs are increasingly adopted for mobile communication under the MVNO/E/A model, Mukesh Binani examines the model implemented in Fibre Networks.