Operators are embarking on densification and Cloud-RAN programs, which will require extensive fiber resources as they go commercial over the coming few years. This is creating new opportunities for the companies which have invested in fiber networks, from established telcos to specialist providers. All eyes in the UK are on BT, since its merger with leading MNO EE. This reawakened debate over the future of its Openreach wholesale division, with Vodafone and others querying whether BT could really guarantee that EE would not gain any preferential access to fiber for backhaul. Although regulator Ofcom stopped short of splitting off Openreach when it conducted a review of BT earlier in the year, it made it clear the option was still on…