Britain's competition watchdog on Wednesday agreed ​to fast-track its review of nexfibre's ‌planned £2 billion ($2.65 billion) acquisition of Substantial Group, the parent of broadband operator Netomnia, to ​an in-depth investigation.

Broadband Altnet Netomnia which runs alternative full fibre infrastructure across the UK and especially in the Manchester area has recently evicted an intruder from their network. Following internal alarms of customer ONTs (the boxes on the walls of homes where full fibre connections terminate) losing signals last Sunday, an engineer was sent to investigate and […] The post Altnet Netomnia evicts squirrel from box on fibre pole appeared first on thinkbroadband.

Liberty Global, Telefónica, and InfraVia have grand designs on the UK fiber market

Telefónica and Liberty Global are leading a takeover of Netomnia in a deal to close gap with BT’s Openreach

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Consumers will be waiting until later in 2025 for consumer focussed ISP to join the Netomnia wholesale platform, but with a footprint that passes 100,000 business premises Netomnia is keen to get its wholesale operation up and running for MSP and B2B providers. We presume for those working from home and buying from a business […] The post Netomnia has launched its B2B wholesale platform appeared first on thinkbroadband.

Connected Britain had the CEO of nexfibre speaking, and other senior staff from competitors and industry talking across the day both on the main stage and at the various breakout meetings. While everyone was careful to not second guess the CMA investigation into the acquisition of Netomnia (Substantial Group), it was very clear there are […] The post Connected Britain and nexfibre acquisition of Netomnia a hot topic appeared first on thinkbroadband.

The Financial Times has reported that Virgin Media O2 is in talks to potentially acquire Netomnia in what it suggests could be a deal worth £2 billion. The talks are described as non-exclusive and another potential suitor for Netomnia is CityFibre. In the Virgin Media O2 financial results today, they described themselves in the quarterly […] The post How much would Virgin Media O2 buying Netomnia change UK full fibre market? appeared first on thinkbroadband.