Grain skewers wholesale model as altnets ponder consolidation
At Connected Britain the UK’s largest fibre platforms called on investors and smaller players to accept the inevitability of consolidation. Niche challenger Grain rebutted the assumption that scale is now critical, and instead called into question the foundations of current wholesale‑led models.
This article includes:
- Themes: Broadband economics; Consolidation; Debt funding; Exit strategy; Fibre rollout; Infrastructure investment; Operating cost; Physical Infrastructure Access (PIA); Retail model; Valuation gap; Wholesale model.
- Events: Connected Britain 2025; Consolidation and competition — the future shape of the UK telecoms market.
- People: Dominic Kearns; Jeremy Chelot; Rajiv Datta; Richard Cameron; Rob Hamlin.
- Geographic: United Kingdom.
- Organisations: CityFibre; Fibrus; Grain Connect; nexfibre; Netomnia; Openreach; Sky; TalkTalk; Virgin Media; Vodafone; Zen.
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