M&A

Basalt Infrastructure Partners LLP is merging its two UK fibre assets, FullFibre and Digital Infrastructure, to create a single wholesale platform.

Home Telecom has completed its sixth and seventh acquisitions in three years, adding customers from Bloomtel and OpenFibre to the business.

Rural altnets SWS Broadband and Cadence Networks have been merged into Voneus, which has also saved Broadway Partners from Administration.

Connectus has acquired Mango Tech to swell its customer base across the north west and enhance its engineering and technical expertise.

nexfibre will acquire Upp following initial integration work by Virgin Media O2. The acquisition will add 175,000 premises to nexfibre’s footprint in the east of England where it plans to invest more than £350m by 2026.

InfraBridge-owned VX Fiber and Equitix-backed Freedom Fibre have held exploratory talks about a deal, reports Sky News.

Connexin has acquired Encompass Training and will merge the company with its own training and development arm.

Obelisk’s expansion into the UK wireless telecommunications sector has been boosted through the acquisition of Balfour Beatty’s telecoms division.

Hull-based ISP Octaplus has acquired the residential customer base of Legend Fibre, which will begin focusing solely on its B2B customers.

Jurassic Fibre, Swish Fibre, Giganet and AllPoints Fibre will become a single operating entity as Fern Trading consolidates its retail and wholesale fibre businesses.