Monday, October 17, 2022

Vodafone selects Altice for open access fiber joint venture

Vodafone selects Altice for open access fiber joint venture (instead of KKR, Brookfield or Deutsche Glasfaser/EQT).

  • Vodafone DE to establish 50/50 JV FibreCo 23H1 with Altice
  • To develop 7m FTTH lines (o/w 80% to housing ass in existing HFC footprint, 20% to neighbouring homes outside current footprint) in 6 yr
  • Total investment EUR 7b o/w 70% debt financed
  • Currently offering 1 Gb/s to >24m homes (incl wholesale on Telekom, ...); to complement node splitiing, Docsis 3.1 (high splitting, max 3 Gb/s), Docsis 4.0
  • Open for wholesale (Vodafone DE anchor tenant without minimum revenue or volume commitment)
  • Construction & maintenance by Geodesia (= Altice)
  • Vodafone DE to receive max EUR 1.2b cash (o/w 120m upfront at closing JV, 487m deferred during roll-out, earn-out max 595m)
Current JV's in Germany:



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