Karen Egan, head of telecoms at Enders Analysis said that CityFibre securing new funding was “absolutely central” to the future of the altnet sector.
She added it would give the company “the horsepower that they need to drive consolidation by acquiring smaller players in the sector and continue expanding their footprint”.
Claire Enders, founder of media and telecommunications research company Enders Analysis, said Rose "epitomizes the reasons women have increasingly succeeded to these roles."
"She's a peacemaker, she's very non-confrontational, very thoughtful, and she works very well in very large organizations," Enders added.
Moreover, Enders Analysis’ senior research analyst Claire Holubowskyj said she still believes Google’s promise of a new reporting line showing the impact of AI Max is little better than other black box reporting.
“While useful to identify an impact, the ‘how’ and ‘why’ have always been the more interesting (and difficult to identify) insights,” she said.
In Holubowskyj’s view, Google is providing the base level of visibility necessary in AI Max to build trust in the system among marketers. “But part of widespread AI adoption will be trusting the outputs and ceding limited control in some areas — the key questions are which areas, and how much oversight is required?,” she continued.
Karen Egan was quoted in the Financial Times on "The surprising success story of British fibre broadband"
8 July 2025“Consistency is incredibly important to investors and Ofcom has largely been consistent,” says Karen Egan, head of telecoms at Enders Analysis.
Openreach hosted internet service providers including Sky, TalkTalk and BT’s own retail units on its network, which comprised about 80 per cent of the market by 2016, according to Enders Analysis.
Others see it differently. Although the altnet drive had been crucial, the UK’s meteoric rollout is largely owed to Ofcom’s decision to guarantee Openreach its fair bet, argues Egan.
“I just don’t think that you can [say] to your board and to your shareholders, ‘We’re rolling this out because the government’s kind of really leaning on us to do so,’” Egan says. “I think it was more about the fair bet from Ofcom.”
Tom Harrington, a broadcast expert at the research firm Enders Analysis, says of YouTubing: “You’re completely at the whims of a platform, an algorithm that can change any time. If you do well, you do very, very well. And if you do badly, you do very, very badly, and no one ever sees your content. There’s incredible risk being on that platform and having your entire existence on that platform.”
Harrington thinks that many presenters would prefer the old, risk-free broadcast system, where they would accept payments upfront for commissions, rather than YouTube’s “performance-based” model. He adds: “It’s kind of precarious even for someone like him.”
“It’s a generational shift — text is less important [to young people] than video and audio,” says Douglas McCabe, chief executive and director of publishing at Enders Analysis.
Tech is also a problem for parents, says Douglas. “They are not modelling great reading habits because they’re always on their phones. They are also more likely to put kids on a device. There is a decline in parents reading to children.”
François Godard was quoted in Les Echos on "Football: Ligue 1 channel to be sold at 14.99 euros per month"
2 July 2025"This could attract new people who could then subscribe to the League's channel," explains François Godard, an analyst at Enders Analysis. "This would be a good thing for the League, which needs to reconnect with the population."
An analyst note from media research service Enders Analysis suggests that, “Having turned Sky Deutschland around, this divestment allows Sky to be much more focused on core regions with more diversified businesses.”
Gill Hind was quoted in The Telegraph on "BBC launches US subscription 80pc cheaper than licence fee"
30 June 2025Gill Hind, of Enders Analysis, said: “A lot of the news out in the US is very, very biased. And for people that are interested in what’s happening, not just in the US but globally, there’ll be a lot of news on the BBC that you wouldn’t get on things such as Fox.
“So if you actually want to have a greater understanding of what’s happening on the world scene and also how the US has been seen by others, then actually something like the BBC is the most obvious channel to go towards.”
Karen Egan was quoted in The Telegraph on "TalkTalk on the brink as dreams of budget broadband billions unravels"
30 June 2025Karen Egan, at Enders Analysis, says: “It will be worrying [the Government] because they do have a high proportion of vulnerable customers.
“I think there’s a fear of a lot of disruption, but in the case of TalkTalk there’s a lot of ways they can ensure the service doesn’t ever go down.”
Potential options include a “supplier of last resort” scenario, similar to the one used in the energy sector. This would see a trusted larger player, such as BT, appointed to take over TalkTalk’s customer base should it collapse.
Alternatively, the Government could intervene to prop up the company for a limited period, giving customers time to switch to a different provider of their choosing.