All Fibre (FTTC/FTTP) articles
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Products & ServicesTesco Mobile denies rumours of return to UK broadband fray
UK’s largest MVNO pushes back against suggestions it is planning to re-enter the country’s broadband market, after reports that the business has held early-stage talks with parent Virgin Media O2 and infra sibling nexfibre to explore opportunities. Denial comes as competition continues to heat up in the nation’s crowded broadband market…
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Strategy & ChangeUtility Warehouse eyes broadband and mobile opportunities as it chases convergence
In depth: Multi-play broadband and utilities provider unveils a five-year plan to drive up mobile, broadband, and insurance, while tapping an AI commercial opportunity. UW may be a litmus test as UK altnets develop retail strategies to go beyond connectivity…
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Analyst BriefingEMEA Infrawatch: EU’s €300bn data centre gap
Analyst Briefing: Latest on EMEA digital infra, including news of huge investment needs for data centre expansion in the EU, talks between Vodafone and PPC to create scaled fibre challenger in Greece, and blocking of The Netherlands’ Glaspoort from acquiring DELTA Fiber assets.
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Partnerships & AlliancesVodafoneThree extends CityFibre deal into the realm of backhaul
CityFibre takes on the role as preferred backhaul supplier at VodafoneThree mobile sites as part of renewed, “long-term” wholesale fibre deal. The arrangement builds on more than a decade of collaboration between the pair on fixed broadband.
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Strategy & Change‘We’re built different’: how disruptive Digi is putting unorthodox group ethos into practice in Spain
In depth: Digi Spain has adopted its parent group’s ‘radical pricing model’ and industrial approach to build a vertically integrated challenger to Spain’s three established telecoms players. The result has been successive years of 20%-plus top line growth, an expanding share of the market, and a platform for the group to extend its disruptive playbook to other European markets.
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M&AVivo seeks vertical gains with absorption of ex-JV FiBrasil
Telefónica’s Brazilian business targets the start of August for synergistic meld of side business FiBrasil into its in-house wireless infra operations. Move follows on from recent buyouts of partners La Caisse and Telefónica Infra.
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Financial & PerformanceVodafone Spain progresses dramatic, private equity-led turnaround
Spain’s number three telco has more than doubled margin in the two years since being sold by Vodafone to investment group Zegona Communications, again raising a question mark over strategy under its previous owner. Having proved its buy-fix-sell transformation model, Zegona is now eyeing other acquisition targets…
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Partnerships & AlliancesGermany’s O2 finds new friend in EWE, after 1&1 breakup
Operator forms wholesale mobile access partnership with EWE, building on a series of MVNO client adds to aid with recovery from 1&1 contract loss. O2 and EWE can now boast multi-layered relationship that also encompasses enterprise market collaboration and infrastructure expansion…
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PeoplewatchFrance Peoplewatch: MásOrange CEO brought into ExCo fold; Utiq selects new chief
Latest senior and strategic people moves in the French telecoms and digital infra sectors, including a new CEO at telco adtech venture Utiq, MásOrange chief Meinrad Spenger joining the Orange Group Executive Committee, and Iliad CEO Thomas Reynaud retaining a seat on the Tele2 board.
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Network & InfraBoldyn says London Tube mobile rollout ‘on track’ in latest progress update
Neutral host says London Underground coverage programme to complete by end of 2026, within current timeframes but two years later than initially planned.
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Network & InfraGreece: Vodafone, PPC weigh JV to build new fibreco leader
Market analysis: Fibreco combo could reshape market and establish a scaled wholesale challenger to DT-backed incumbent OTE and accelerate momentum in a market that has long lagged behind European FTTP progress.
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Public AffairsDutch watchdog blocks Glaspoort’s proposed DELTA Fiber asset buy
Dutch competition authority draws a line in the sand after investigating whether deal adds to its concerns over KPN “bead stringing” to expand its fibre footprint. KPN questions whether response to “relatively small transaction” is warranted …
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Analyst BriefingEMEA Infrawatch: France fills data centre funding funnel
Analyst Briefing: Latest on EMEA digital infra, including data centre overseers investing billions of euros into new French projects, Starlink competitors seeing mixed progress with satellite expansion, and another round of open access fibre deals in Germany.
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Network & InfraOrange activates Via Tunisia system, continues subsea cable expansion
Operator’s Via Tunisia subsea cable enters ready-for-service mode, as it moves to strengthen connectivity between Europe and Africa. System also supports Orange’s data centre interconnection ambitions…
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M&Anexfibre’s Datta: ‘corner shop fibre’ is dead, the UK needs an infra megamart
Interview: proposed £2bn acquisition of Netomnia is sparking fierce debate across the UK broadband sector. With industry heavyweights trading blows over duopoly fears and infrastructure overlap, discover why CEO Rajiv Datta believes this consolidation is crucial to challenging Openreach.
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Network & InfraEQT raises infrastructure investment stakes amid soaring demand for power and data centres
Swedish private equity behemoth sets target for new infra fund after reiterating strategy to invest in the data centres and power underpinning the AI boom. Ambition comes with European fibrecos under pressure to deliver returns on investment and seen to have lost prominence to data centres in the global infra growth story.
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M&AEurofiber offloads French data centres amid hunt for scale
European connectivity provider moves to sell French data centre portfolio to ETIX, as it seeks to focus more on open access fibre and integrated digital infra services. ETIX to combine the sites into a “unified campus” in southern France, marking latest step in M&A-fuelled expansion…
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Network & InfraSoftBank picks France for €75bn mega-bet on European data centres
Japanese investment group unveils multi-billion euro programme to build out French data centre portfolio, amidst aggressive AI infra expansion in Europe and beyond. Investment among wave of digital infra projects that have emerged in and around recent Choose France Summit…
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Analyst BriefingUK Infrawatch: Digi lands; CityFibre dials back; BT targets regional altnets
Analyst Briefing: Latest from the digital infra scene in the UK, including: a European budget challenger emerges in UK, BDUK adjusts to a revised fibre market reality, more rumours of regional player consolidation, and plenty more…
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Public AffairsDT strikes ‘balanced’ wage deal with trade union
Operator says new collective bargaining agreement with German union reps still leaves enough in the Group pot for network investment, despite acquiescence to wage rises and protection from dismissal for certain employees. HR chief Birgit Bohle describes deal as “balanced”, after DT execs have indicated previous framework was “too generous”…