All Fibre (FTTC/FTTP) articles – Page 8
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NetworkUK: CityFibre and BDUK massively renegotiate Project Gigabit subsidies, to reflect market realities
As CityFibre cancels or shrinks its Project Gigabit commitments, halving the covered premises while increasing the per-property subsidy, BT/Openreach emerges as the dominant beneficiary of government subsidies.
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Finance & StrategyDT CEO calls for tech support as growth becomes more elusive
Q1 FY26: Focus goes under-the-hood at DT as German operator — accustomed to riding a long wave of US-led growth — sees go-to-market gain become harder to come by. Profit at B2B and US arms hurt, temporarily, by investments in new sources of growth, while in Germany and Europe, the onus is on cost-cutting to weather commercial challenges. Attention falls on longevity and domestic fibre strategy and ongoing aggressive implementation of AI.
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Finance & StrategyDT delivering despite dollar drag
Q1 FY26 In-depth: Group just sneaks into growth on revenue and earnings, after results again diluted by past weakening of dollar.
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Finance & StrategyDT ‘open’ to deploying more fibre firepower
Q1 FY26 Spend: Group execs face questions over whether slow-moving fibre build makes strategic sense.
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Analyst BriefingEMEA Infrawatch: German fibrecos open up for take-up
Analyst Briefing: Latest on EMEA digital infra, including German fibre players forging further open access deals amidst efforts to accelerate take-up, European telcos plotting to expand data centre footprints, and MEA towerco Helios ramping up tower spend to meet growing regional capacity demand…
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Finance & StrategyFighting fibre with fibre: BT Consumer goes hyper-local in counter-attack against challengers
FY25–26: BT CEO Kirkby trumpets a marginal return to broadband customer growth as an early sign of a Consumer comeback.
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Partnerships & AlliancesOpen Dutch Fiber outsources infra management in strategy shift
Dutch altnet offloads responsibility for passive infra management in north of the country to services group Circet. The deal is the provider’s second outsourcing deal in 2026, as it seeks ways to deliver fibre more efficiently and direct freed resource towards go-to-market…
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Finance & StrategyThree cheers for London: Community Fibre achieves cash-positivity, returns to rollout, adds mobile multiplay
FY25/Analyst Briefing: upbeat and staunchly local altnet resumes build-out and ups ambitions, now partly self-funding as possibly first UK-fibreco to turn cash-positive following strong FY25. Also debuting highly-competitive mobile bolt-on bolstering fixed-mobile convergence challenge…
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Network1&1 expands fixed wholesale play with Tele Columbus pact
German challenger to reach a further 1.2 million homes through latest open access agreement, after 1&1 CFO Sascha D’Avis affirmed there are “still more” wholesale deals to come. Move also sees Tele Columbus advance fixed broadband growth strategy, with open access playing a key role…
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Strategy & ChangeDigi plots UK MVNO to drive ‘nationwide’ convergence ambitions
European telecoms disruptor flags UK MVNO plans as it prepares convergence play to build on “step-by-step” UK expansion…
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PeoplewatchAllPoints CEO to take top spot at Irish digital infra association
Kelly appointed as CEO at Digital Infrastructure Ireland as he moves to leave UK altnet. The association seeks to tap into the exec’s digital infra expertise to guide strategic shift, as it aims to attract investment and influence policy across a wider portion of the nation’s digital infra sector…
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NetworkDT mulls Munich AI Factory expansion as customers soak up capacity
CEO Tim Höttges says operator considering expansion after Blackwell capacity sells out. Comments come as the telco advances “cautious” expansion in the segment, and as other regional peers press on with their own data centre ventures…
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Strategy & ChangeGreek upstart PPC rules out expansion of challenge to mobile
Utility denies rumours of upcoming expansion into mobile, despite planned participation in Greek watchdog’s spectrum consultation. Instead, CEO Georgios Stassis says PPC is eyeing a fixed-wireless access play to complement rapid fixed broadband expansion …
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M&AUK’s AllPoints reinforces wholesale shift with Cuckoo divestment
Altnet furthers transition from fibre builder to wholesale aggregator by offloading one of its two consumer ISPs. Deal sees AllPoints sign up another customer to growing aquila platform, as it moves to commercialise its fibre infrastructure…
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Strategy & ChangeArch-disruptor Digi teases UK landfall — is £15 fibre here to stay?
In depth: expansive Romanian telco disruptor teases ultra-low pricing that has shaken up EU markets and now threatens to redraw UK fibre market’s economics and put further pressure on already fragile altnet ARPU… next stop mobile?
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Finance & StrategyVodacom seeks African fibre synergies with SA to lead the way
FY25–26: Vodacom is looking to scale its fibre footprint, leveraging M&A-boosted South African strengths to propel expansion in Kenya and Tanzania…
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Finance & StrategyVodafone faces volume trade-off in latest Germany turnaround attempt
FY25–26: Group CEO Margherita Della Valle defends value-over-volume play as Germany OpCo closes in on a turnaround, of sorts, despite persistent customer losses and further earnings decline forecast.
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PeoplewatchOrange Peoplewatch: Belgian C-suite shake-up rolls on with new CIO
Latest 20+ senior and strategic leadership changes at Orange, including another appointment as part of a C-suite overhaul in Belgium, the recruitment of fresh domestic network leadership, and the Group’s former France boss moving to oversee a national fibre challenger…
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M&ASFR takeover: Bouygues says talks remain in ‘active mode’ amid reports of delay
€20bn-plus preliminary agreement for SFR break-up said to be unlikely by deadline of 15 May. Four-to-three MNO consolidation play set to see much of the acquired network and IT asset base junked…
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Analyst BriefingEMEA Infrawatch: Europe’s fibre re-fi ‘wall’ looms
Analyst Briefing: ING warns of “enormous refinancing wall” coming for fibrecos in 2027; Deutsche Glasfaser completes long-awaited debt raise; Proximus and Telenet finalise Belgian fibre rollout tie-up; INWIT said to eye data centre play as tower competition heats up; and more…