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Arch-disruptor Digi teases UK landfall — is £15 fibre here to stay?

2026-05-13T15:43:00

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Source: Kashish Lamba / Unsplash

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?

This article includes:

  • Themes: Alternative network (Altnet); Average revenue per user (ARPU); Broadband; Cannibalisation; Capital expenditure (Capex); Consolidation; Fibre to the premises (FTTP); Fixed network; Gigabit; Hybrid-fibre coaxial; Internet service provider (ISP); Merger and acquisition (M&A); Mobile network operator (MNO); Mobile virtual network operator (MVNO); Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA); Pricing strategy; Revenue-generating unit (RGU); Wholesale pricing; Wi-Fi 6.
  • Events: FTTH Conference.
  • People: Eamonn O’Hare; Jeremy Chelot; Margherita Della Valle; Rajiv Datta; Ronan Kelly; Sam Horrocks; Serghei Bulgac; Simon Holden; Zoltán Teszári.
  • Geographic: Bedfordshire; Belgium; Hertfordshire; Italy; Portugal; Reading; Romania; Spain; United Kingdom (UK).
  • Organisations: AllPoints Fibre Network (APFN); Analysys Mason; BT Group; CityFibre; Citymesh; Community Fibre; Digi Communications; Digi Fibre Communications Ltd; Fastweb; Fiber One; Hyperoptic; ISPreview; Netomnia; Nexfibre; NOWO; Ofcom; Openreach; Point Topic; Proximus; SOTA Network; Swisscom; Telefónica; Telekom Romania; Uswitch; Vodafone; VodafoneThree; WavoNet Broadband; Whyfibre Limited; Zegona Communications.

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