{
  "id": 18005881,
  "title": "Why Virgin Media O2 is cutting jobs and retreating from fibre",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/03/why-virgin-media-o2-is-cutting-jobs-and-retreating-from-fibre",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-03T17:59:35.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "City AM",
    "slug": "city-am",
    "url": "https://www.cityam.com/why-virgin-media-o2-is-cutting-jobs-and-retreating-from-fibre/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Virgin Media O2’s decision to cut thousands of jobs and halt further fibre upgrades marks quite the retreat for a company once positioned as BT’s biggest challenger, writes Saskia Koopman. Five years after Virgin Media and O2 merged to create a £31bn telecoms giant, VMO2 is battling falling revenues, ongoing customer losses and over £22bn [...]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}