Infra Investors, Finance & M&A
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PeoplewatchDeutsche Glasfaser CEO steps down as altnet finally wraps up financing
Andreas Pfisterer to depart as CEO of Deutsche Glasfaser, after the London High Court approves the altnet’s long-awaited financing agreement. Exit comes as altnet transitions away from fibre build-out to drive take-up, in reflection of constrained funding for deployment…
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Network & InfraUK gov plots £330m boost to subsea cable protections
UK government’s long-awaited Defence Investment Plan includes fresh funding to improve subsea infrastructure resilience, including new public-private partnerships and upgraded defence fleets.
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M&AUK’s CityFibre exits off-net as O’Hagan readies for ‘serious’ wholesale expansion
Industry veteran Tom O’Hagan buys CityFibre’s Entanet with ambitions to launch renewed wholesale challenge ready to consolidate and grow. CityFibre, meanwhile, gets fully focused on on-net provisioning…
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M&ACMA uprates Netomnia–nexfibre investigation to Phase 2 as altnets call for ‘urgency’
Altnet buyer nexfibre gets pragmatic and skips straight to the in-depth competition review, keeping hopes alive for completion before the end of the year. The UK’s fibre scene is set to change, but the CMA will now decide the extent.
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M&ARocket Lab to become end-to-end satellite player with Iridium buy
Rocket Lab seeks to move beyond launch services and become vertically integrated satellite player through Iridium acquisition. Challenger eyes opportunities for operational efficiencies and new services, as well as plans for forays into the defence and direct-to-device segments…
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Strategy & ChangeUtility Warehouse eyes broadband and mobile opportunities as it chases convergence
In depth: Multi-play broadband and utilities provider unveils a five-year plan to drive up mobile, broadband, and insurance, while tapping an AI commercial opportunity. UW may be a litmus test as UK altnets develop retail strategies to go beyond connectivity…
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Financial & PerformanceVodafone Spain progresses dramatic, private equity-led turnaround
Spain’s number three telco has more than doubled margin in the two years since being sold by Vodafone to investment group Zegona Communications, again raising a question mark over strategy under its previous owner. Having proved its buy-fix-sell transformation model, Zegona is now eyeing other acquisition targets…
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M&ALiberty Blume bulks up with rights management acquisition as it expands UK infra horizons
Liberty’s Blume is stepping into energy, water, and construction to add to its telecoms heartlands with CLM takeover, positioning itself to capture a larger share of the UK’s infrastructure investment boom.
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Network & InfraGreece: Vodafone, PPC weigh JV to build new fibreco leader
Market analysis: Fibreco combo could reshape market and establish a scaled wholesale challenger to DT-backed incumbent OTE and accelerate momentum in a market that has long lagged behind European FTTP progress.
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M&Anexfibre’s Datta: ‘corner shop fibre’ is dead, the UK needs an infra megamart
Interview: proposed £2bn acquisition of Netomnia is sparking fierce debate across the UK broadband sector. With industry heavyweights trading blows over duopoly fears and infrastructure overlap, discover why CEO Rajiv Datta believes this consolidation is crucial to challenging Openreach.
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Network & InfraEQT raises infrastructure investment stakes amid soaring demand for power and data centres
Swedish private equity behemoth sets target for new infra fund after reiterating strategy to invest in the data centres and power underpinning the AI boom. Ambition comes with European fibrecos under pressure to deliver returns on investment and seen to have lost prominence to data centres in the global infra growth story.
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M&AEurofiber offloads French data centres amid hunt for scale
European connectivity provider moves to sell French data centre portfolio to ETIX, as it seeks to focus more on open access fibre and integrated digital infra services. ETIX to combine the sites into a “unified campus” in southern France, marking latest step in M&A-fuelled expansion…
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M&AInfra is back: Telefónica re-acquires Spanish microwave assets
Group strikes deal to purchase domestic microwave assets from Asterion Industrial Partners, having only sold them six years ago. Execs indicate acquisition aids strategy to “rigorously strengthen control” of infra and improve network resilience in fast-changing world…
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Network & InfraSoftBank picks France for €75bn mega-bet on European data centres
Japanese investment group unveils multi-billion euro programme to build out French data centre portfolio, amidst aggressive AI infra expansion in Europe and beyond. Investment among wave of digital infra projects that have emerged in and around recent Choose France Summit…
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Network & InfraUK: 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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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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Financial & PerformanceThree 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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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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Partnerships & AlliancesProximus, Telenet firm up Belgian fibre-sharing pact
Belgian duo firm up long-awaited fibre collaboration to help accelerate rollout while dodging overbuild. Deal marks milestone in national telcos’ work to strengthen the country’s lagging FTTP coverage relative to European neighbours…