All Fibre (FTTC/FTTP) articles – Page 11
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Financial & Performance
Brazil’s Vivo sails past 100m mark for mobile accesses
Brazilian OB reaps success of upselling tactics as postpaid mobile share expands.
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Venturing & Investments
UK Infrastructure Bank gives fibre sector another financial leg-up
National infra financing organisation backs another rural fibre altnet as Quickline secures a £250m debt package to support rollout in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
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Financial & Performance
T-Mobile has ‘little appetite’ for further fibre deals, for now
CEO Mike Sievert says T‑Mobile remains open minded but indicates that there are no current plans to bulk up fibre diet.
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M&A
Vodafone Spain partners Telefónica on second FibreCo in two weeks
Telefónica España and Vodafone Spain to create joint FibreCo with a 3.5 million premises footprint, as Telefónica shores up wholesale revenue and Vodafone continues infra retreat.
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Financial & Performance
BT Q1 FY25 In-depth: adjusting to changing competitive landscape
Group revenue falls as competition proves fierce and challengers pinch subscribers. The usual trouble at Business, new headaches at Consumer, and reliable performer Openreach presents questions of its own…
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Network & Infrastructure
German law to accelerate network rollout receives muted response
Draft TK‑NABEG act moves to next stage, with telecom networks elevated to status of “overriding public interest”.
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Network & Infrastructure
Project Gigabit future: UK FibreCos say yes to expansion, but with caveats
Mooted bundling of Project Gigabit mega-contracts gets firm ‘no’ from altnet INCA gathering, but most on board for programme extension. New Labour government urged to protect and evolve rural fibre build to reach final few per cent of rural premises, learn from ‘zany’ Scotland, or risk missing FTTP targets. And then there’s that Type C elephant (not) in the room, Openreach…
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Financial & Performance
Virgin Media O2 scopes out investment partners for 2025 NetCo launch
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries says it is looking to finalise financing details this year to bring VM O2’s NetCo online. NetCo progress and fibre build-out puts a cheery note on VM O2’s further weakened performance in Q2, which prompted tweak to financial forecast…
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Partnerships & Alliances
O2 Germany seeks fibre customer boost with DT access deal
Operators update fibre access agreement as O2 seeks to benefit from quicker customer connections.
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Financial & Performance
KPN still keen on deals to accelerate fibre build
Dutch telco continues to scope out M&A opportunities within country’s consolidating fibre scene, to propel build and reduce competitive threat.
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Financial & Performance
Hrvatski Telekom accelerates fibre build amid strong H1
Croatian operator ups FY24 capex guidance on back of faster than expected revenue growth in first six months of the year, and indicates flow of fibre infra add-ons is accelerating.
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Weekly Briefings
Telefónicawatch Weekly: Group reinforces digital B2B services segment
Acquisition of Brazil’s IPNET promises to accelerate digital B2B services growth. Meanwhile, Group makes progress on infra asset monetisation as sale of Spanish data centres attracting investors.
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Venturing & Investments
Infracapital: UK FibreCo fundraisers must graft to overcome global ‘bad rep’, new gov showing ‘green shoots’
INCA event provides platform for investors and altnets including Octopus and Netomnia to review early weeks of Labour government, with broad optimism on show despite still rocky funding environment. The capital exists, but what will Downing Street do to bring it to the UK? Read more…
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Financial & Performance
Openreach hits halfway mark in UK fibre mega-project
15 million premises now sit within the Openreach FTTP footprint, on track for 30 million by 2030, but a productivity boost is needed if it is to hit its 2026 interim target…
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M&A
T-Mobile spends $5bn to make Metronet its fibre buy number-two
Tie-up with KKR sees NatCo add two million homes to its expanding fixed services footprint, as well as securing a residential customer add-on.
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Network & Infrastructure
MásOrange eyes more Spanish fibre deals after Vodafone infra tie-up
Consolidation of pressured Spanish telco market continues, seeing recently-reworked operator duo team up to form a distinct fibre business, focused on “dense areas”.
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Weekly Briefings
Deutsche Telekomwatch Weekly: once-reticent Europe NatCos now embrace tower spinouts
Magyar Telekom becomes latest DT business to re-consider approach to wireless infra management, and take closer look at cost-benefit match-up of tower portfolio separation.
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Operations
Telefónica’s FiBrasil enhances OSS in open fibre take-up drive
Brazilian fibre JV with CDPQ highlights AI, automation, and open APIs as key technologies to lure new customers and tenants to neutral host network. Driving huge wins across sales and tenant onboarding. Learn more…
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Venturing & Investments
Gov-backed UK Infrastructure Bank provides funding to another rural FibreCo
Cornish Wildanet attracts £35m investment from UKIB, days after the bank ploughed £150m into Hyperoptic.
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People
Telefónica Peoplewatch: C-level shake-up at UK and LatAm ventures
TEASER: Roundup of 25+ notable people moves across Telefónica globally, including: new finance chief at Tesco Mobile; CEO in place at new Brazilian energy JV; and C-Suite updates at ON*NET Fibra Colombia. Read more…