RE: Sale is smoke15 May 2020 17:39
The FT doesn't mess about. It has good sources.
The fact a £20b figure has been leaked on Openreach, right off the bat, is also very telling. It says someone has thought about its value, calculated it, and rounded it up to a highly marketable number that everyone will get excited about.
This looks like the start of a planned campaign to selloff Openreach. Whether they sell the network or the maintenance, or something else, or all three, it doesn't matter. They will find a way to make it work. The CEO is set to make millions from spinning it off, the bankers / lawyers will make millions from the deal, and shareholders will see some dollar.