With modern life, business and leisure really now dominated by the internet, it was only a matter of time before corporate attention swung towards BT's (LON:BT.) dominance in this area as it owns most of the broadband infrastructure in the UK.
And the day of reckoning has come as the telecoms titan has been ordered to legally separate off its openreach business, so it must run it as a separate entity.
Ofcom stopped short of ordering a break-up and sale however, leaving some disappointed.
Openreach develops and maintains most of the UK's broadband cables and boxes, which are used by the likes of BT, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone and many small providers.
TalkTalk chief executive Baroness Dido Harding was reported as saying consumers and businesses were "fed up" that their broadband was not working and that Ofcom's move was a "small step" in the right direction.
BT shares nudged 0.19% higher on Tuesday at 350.95p. TalkTalk (LON:TALK) shares added over 4%. Vodafone (LON:VOD) lost 1.25%.
The BT news was a big story on Tuesday Morning and led the google finance news spot.
BT ordered to spin off Openreach over competition concerns @guardian https://t.co/SdDYltl8se
— John Ashcroft (@jkaonline) November 29, 2016
On Footsie, the big cap miners were seeing red but in the junior sector, there was plenty of news around as this year's Mines & Money conference kicked off in earnest. It is Europe's largest mining investment forum and sees senior executives from 150 firms from around the world gather in one place.
Shares in Scotland-focused gold miner Scotgold Resources Ltd (LON:SGZ) shot up over 8% to 0.65p after it revealed it may have found a way to significantly increase the amount of gold it can extract from the concentrate produced at its Cononish mine.
Currently, the group is using tabling methods which has allowed it extract around 40% of the gold in the galena concentrate, totalling around 17 ounces so far.
The miner has described this as an “achievable but labour intensive” process, and has sought help from a couple of UK-based firms, SGS and Wheal Jane, to maximise the amount of gold that can be retrieved.
If you didn't know the oil and gas sector has taken a massive knock from the oil price slide, where have you been?
But the 25th Oil and Gas Survey has taken the views of 130 businesses, employing over 308,000 UK staff and believes the bottom may now finally have been reached - so the implication is things should start to get better.
Of the firms, 43% have reduced costs in the past year, many of them by as much as 10%, while operators have reduced their workforce by 15% on average last year.
Almost 80% think it's possible they would be involved in decommissioning in the next three to five years, while 53% thought they could be involved in renewables.
But two out of three respondents believe the sector has already reached the bottom of the current cycle, or will do so in the next year.
Another big gainer on the day was hydrocarbon focused group Nostra Terra Oil and Gas Company plc (LON:NTOG), which was up as high as 60% earlier as it bought an 80% working interest in a producing oil field in Texas, currently still producing 100 barrels of oil per day.
Pine Mills, a 12 acre property, has already produced some 12.3mln barrel of oil since operations began there in the 1950s. Water injection and electronic pumps had helped increase production since 2007.
Nostra paid US$1.025mln, which has been majority financed from existing cash resources and the remainder from a director loan facility.
Meanwhile, if your are not a fan of the new look fiver, you're not alone it seems. Vegans and vegetarians are reportedly calling the Bank of England to ditch the new £5 note after it was revealed to contain traces of animal fat. The notes contain tallow, a substance made from animal fat often used in soap and candles.
Executive pay - a long running topic and bone of contention, was also tossed onto the news floor today, with Theresa May's government du to outline moves later to make companies justify their high levels of remuneration.
The average chief executive of a FTSE 100 firm is now reportedly paid close to £5mln, more than 170 times more than the average worker, according to research.
Excellent thoughts on executive pay from @RSAOrg @tomorrows_co #executivepay @highpaycentre https://t.co/eo0fk3citm
— tim johns (@oratotim) November 29, 2016