EMEA Infrawatch: Europe’s fibre re-fi ‘wall’ looms
Cameron Page2026-05-07T09:56:00
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…
This article includes:
- Organisations: BNP Paribas; Bpifrance; BREKO; CaixaBank; Deutsche Glasfaser; DigitalBridge; Eastcastle Infrastructure; EllaLink; EQT; euNetworks; European Commission (EC); European Union (EU); FiberCop; FTTH Council Europe; GlobalConnect; Grid Telecom; Guinean government; Hrvatski Telekom; IFC; ING Wholesale Banking; INWIT; JLL; KKR; Macquarie; Italy’s Ministry of Economy and Finance; Omers; Open Cosmos; Open Fiber; Orange; Polski Światłowód Otwarty (PŚO); Proximus; Pure Data Centres; Scorefit; SoftBank; TAQA; Telenet; Univity; VATM; Vectra Group; Wind Tre; Wyre.
- Geographies: Africa; Albania; Asia; Belgium; Croatia; Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); Europe; France; Germany; Greece; Guinea; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Mauritania; Middle East; Netherlands; Poland; Romania; United Kingdom (UK).
- People: Jeroen Kleinjan; Philipp Niederbichler; Gary Wojtaszek.
- Themes: Alternative financing structures; Blended finance facility; Copper-to-fibre migration; Data centres; Data centre interconnection; Dark fibre; Fibre (FTTP); Fibre access; Fibre financing; Fibre rollout; Gigabit connectivity; Hybrid fibre-coaxial (HFC); IT; Long-term debt refinancing; Network rollout; Neutral host; Satellite; Satellite broadband; Subsea cables; Symmetrical speeds; Towers; Tower competition; Very Low-Earth orbit satellites (VLEO); Wholesale; XGS-PON.