CityFibre has completed its acquisition of Lit Fibre, accelerating its rollout by 220,000 premises and bringing Newlight Partners on board as minority shareholders.
InfraBridge-owned VX Fiber and Equitix-backed Freedom Fibre have held exploratory talks about a deal, reports Sky News.
VX Fiber is said to be working with bankers on M&A options for its UK arm, operating in Stoke-on-Trent. Freedom Fibre is said to be amongst one of the altnets in discussion.
The altnet has reportedly been making redundancies as it focuses on commercialising the network it has already built.