{"id":8371,"date":"2022-12-20T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/uk-orders-sale-of-russian-backed-broadband-firm-upp-over-security-risk\/"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:37:15","slug":"uk-orders-sale-of-russian-backed-broadband-firm-upp-over-security-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/uk-orders-sale-of-russian-backed-broadband-firm-upp-over-security-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"UK orders sale of Russian-backed broadband firm Upp over \u2018security risk\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regional provider is owned by LetterOne, whose investors include Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven<\/p>\n<p>The UK government has ordered the Russian oligarch-backed investment company LetterOne to sell regional broadband provider Upp, saying its current ownership was a national security risk.<\/p>\n<p>Business secretary Grant Shapps said the risk to national security relates to \u201cthe ownership of Upp \u2026 and Upp\u2019s expanding full fibre broadband network\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2022\/dec\/20\/uk-orders-sale-broadband-firm-upp-letterone-l1\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/78fa6c3ab87ffd851d5cad174ee1e7ab0909abba\/0_0_4354_2612\/master\/4354.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0974b8fa587b39657bb904c693dfb5e2\" title=\"UK orders sale of Russian-backed broadband firm Upp over \u2018security risk\u2019\" \/>Regional provider is owned by LetterOne, whose investors include Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven<br \/>\nThe UK government has ordered the Russian oligarch-backed investment company LetterOne to sell regional broadband provider Upp, saying its current ownership was a national security risk.<br \/>\nBusiness secretary Grant Shapps said the risk to national security relates to \u201cthe ownership of Upp \u2026 and Upp\u2019s expanding full fibre broadband network\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regional provider is owned by LetterOne, whose investors include Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven The UK government has ordered the Russian oligarch-backed investment company LetterOne to sell regional broadband provider Upp, saying its current ownership was a national security risk. Business secretary Grant Shapps said the risk to national security relates to \u201cthe ownership of &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/20\/uk-orders-sale-of-russian-backed-broadband-firm-upp-over-security-risk\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK orders sale of Russian-backed broadband firm Upp over \u2018security risk\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}