BT has scrapped plans to find a joint venture partner to help fund the rollout of its next-generation broadband network to an extra 5 million homes, ahead of a potential takeover move by billionaire investor Patrick Drahi next month.
The company said that it had abandoned plans to find a partner for subsidiary Openreach because the cost of rolling out the new network had dropped significantly and takeup by homes and business had proved better than expected.
In May, BT announced that it was upping
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