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“Our customers want us to be bigger. We want to get bigger,” incoming CEO Simon Holden told Total Telecom at the event

Having onboarded Sky and raised a significant amount of capital this year, CityFibre’s new CEO Simon Holden told Total Telecom the company was primed for further growth through altnet consolidation.

“Across the industry, about 17–18 million homes and premises have been made available by the altnets and challengers in aggregate. That’s pretty close to the amount that Openreach themselves have upgraded in terms of fibre. If you could put those altnets together, that’s a coherent scale platform to challenge the incumbent,” said Holden.

“We have an opportunity to bring those players together to create scale and realise the synergies of that platform, and to bring real competition to the UK.”

Check out the full interview below.

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