Virgin Media O2 still eyeing altnet buys despite pressing pause on NetCo plan

Michelle Donegan2025-05-14T16:33:00

Source: Freepik

Virgin Media O2 remains hungry for fibre altnet M&A while its NetCo sale plans are put on ice and its own fibre build rate cools off this year.

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Organisations: Asterion Industrial Partners; Banco de Desarrollo de America Latina; Bluevía; Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ); Crédit Agricole Assurances (CAA); Entel Peru; FiBrasil; IDB Invest; InfraVia Capital Partners; KKR; Liberty Global; Meta; Nabiax; nexfibre; ON*NET Fibra; PangeaCo; Pontegadea; Telefónica Group; Telxius; Vauban Infrastructure Partners; Virgin Media O2 (VM O2); Unsere Grüne Glasfaser.
Geographies: Europe; United Kingdom (UK).
People: José María Álvarez-Pallete; Mike Fries; Emilio Gayo; Marc Murtra; Lutz Schüler; Ángel Vilá.
Themes: Acquisitions; Broadband; Cable network; Consolidation; Connectivity; Construction costs; Cost efficiencies; Data centres; Enterprise (B2B); Fibre (FTTP); Fibre rollout; FibreCo; Fixed broadband; Fixed network; Handset sales; Infrastructure; Investment; Market rationalisation; Mergers and acquisitions (M&A); Mobile customers; Network build; NetCo; Price increases; Public sector customers; Strategy.

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