Netomnia takeout rumours: first billion-dollar M&A for UK fibre?

Joe Purnell2025-10-31T15:58:00

Source: Netomnia

Deep dive: Reports suggest Netomnia is in play, with cashed-up nexfibre/VM O2 and CityFibre tagged as frontrunners in the race to build a national fibre challenger to Openreach. TelcoTitans Infrawatch explores the backdrop, leading players (including Liberty Global and Telefónica), netco-servco dichotomy, and likeliest outcomes…

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Themes: Altnets; Broadband; Consolidation; Fibre; Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC); Infrastructure; Merger and acquisition (M&A); Network; Ready-for-service (RFS); Valuation; Wholesale.
Events: Connected Britain.
People: Greg Mesch; Jeremy Chelot; Lutz Schüler; Mike Fries; Rajiv Datta; Rob Hamlin; Simon Holden.
Geographic: Hull; UK.
Organisations: AllPoints Fibre Network (APFN); BT; CityFibre; Connexin; Daisy Communications; EE; Giffgaff; InfraVia Capital Partners; Liberty Global; Lit Fibre; Netomnia; nexfibre; O2 Daisy; Openreach; Sky; Telefónica; Telefónica Infra; Upp; Virgin Media O2 (VM O2); Vodafone; VodafoneThree; YouFibre.

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