2025 has proved a pivotal year for AllPoints Fibre Networks (APFN), with the completion of its consolidation programme and the launch of its wholesale fibre platform reflecting the full transformation of disparate retail ISPs and network builders into a scaling wholesaler. Here, CCO Nisreen El-kaloush lays out the post consolidation priorities for APFN as well as its long-term ambitions in the fibre sector.
Interviews
Grain’s mission to pass one million premises with its organic build took a significant step forward this week with the altnet securing a further £225m in investment from HPS Investment Partners. Here CEO Richard Cameron shares with Fibre Provider how the funds will be deployed, details how Grain hit EBITDA positivity at 40,000 customers and reveals his long-term roadmap to build a high-return business with 40% market share on its network.
Access is critical to empowering service provider success, according to Donal Hanrahan, Director of Strategy at Strategic Imperatives. Here he discusses his plans and priorities to ensure The Fibre Café, its cloud based, API-driven integration platform, continues to catalyse competition and drive positive outcomes.
Our latest Fibre Scope feature explores how can/ are altnets most effectively delivering the payback imperative and becoming profitable.
F&W Networks CEO José Luis San Martín shares an update with FibreProvider.net on the altnet’s build and commercial progress and discusses where value is moving in the industry.
Asbestos is regularly delaying fibre projects by one-to-two weeks whilst remaining the single biggest killer of tradesmen in the UK, according to Tom Yates, Director at TYSR. Here, he calls on altnets to bring testing in-house cut asbestos-related delays down to 24-48 hours and bring savings of over 60% per site.
A month on from the tie-up between FullFibre and Zzoomm - which has created an organisation with 600,000 ready-to-serve properties and over 65,000 customers - CEO James Warner talks to Fibre Provider to give a progress update on the merger. He highlights an acceleration of customer acquisition and the migration to a single operating model and systems stack as an ongoing priority and shares his
Here, Group CEO Jeremy Chelot discusses his ambitions to create the UK's largest full fibre altnet, the third-largest full-fibre network overall, and one of the top five ISPs. He discusses milestones hit so far, strategies for 2025, and his long-term view of the UK altnet market.
Omelcom’s UK Business Development Manager Jamie Todd is leveraging a decade of industry experience to strengthen the manufacturer's status in the UK telecom market. Jamie is accelerating strategic actions to form critical collaborations with altnets and fibre providers to support long-term network development for both small and large-scale projects.
The channel’s Women in Technology agenda has hit an inflection point where heightened awareness must be converted into tangible progress – and men need to play their part.