In reply to a post by jchamier:

Are they defined as a CNI ?

I don't know to be honest. If not I'd have thought they aspire to be. Given how dependant we are becoming on the Internet, it's now a utility without which you cannot be part of society, I'm surprised Virgin and any major infrastructure provider aren't.
Sky not so much but then again you need a TV service to provide information.
Then again I thought BBC Radio 4 was part of the CNI. Look what happened this week. We were minutes away from launching the nukes.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Are they defined as a CNI ? I know the BT PLC owned networks probably are, and the motorway network is, but is Virgin Media? I would have put CityFibre in the same category as them.

Plenty of single points of failure in VM and TalkTalk networks, and in Sky and others, to call them CNI.

I don't believe (happy to be corrected) that currently they are officially defined as a CNI - even though the management team there says things like:

“CityFibre is rapidly scaling as a national infrastructure platform of critical importance to the UK..."

Basically are they too big to fail right now? The answer has to be no.

jchamier

VM have just shown one of their failure points see BBC They have never claimed CNI to my knowledge.

Lucky for them TV service went off this morning rather than last night with the football. Then again much of that was streamed…on Amazon Prime.

Not that Marc Allera was particularly impressed.

In reply to a post by kitcat:

They have never claimed CNI to my knowledge.

Thanks, makes sense. At least the broadband kept working for us mandatory home workers