Navigating your way to profitable fibre deployment
The full guide provides a descriptive name for each business model, and identifies the key financial de-risking features associated with it (e.g. positioning on retail and wholesale markets, clustering of fibre roll-out projects). It also identifies 8 European companies that are representative for these models and that have achieved large-scale fibre roll-out. The concluding section draws-out key commonalities among the financial de-risking strategies implemented to attract the large amounts of private financing required.
The 8 companies studied have become “build-out machines”, scaling-up rapidly by clustering projects in different geographic areas, and taken together represent:
- 20m homes passed with fibre at end-2020 (>40m if minority co-financing is included)
- 45m homes to be passed with fibre by end-2025 (>75m if incl. minority co-financing)
A full description of the 8 business models, and in-depth profiles of 8 selected European companies and their metrics and history, is contained in the full Guide to Successful Fibre Business Models Involving and Rewarding Private Financing. The Guide also identifies the companies’ major shareholders, profiles their reference shareholders, and summarises their fundraising operations, including loans granted by consortia of banks, changes in ownership, the creation of separate companies to hold fibre assets, etc. Its table of contents is provided at the end of this White Paper.
The Guide to Successful Fibre Business Models, together with many other valuable assets for the fibre community, is made freely available for members of the FTTH Council Europe, as part of their membership agreement. If you're company is a member of ours, you can request your access as a delegate and log in into the member area of our website to access the asset.
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About the Investors Committee
The Investors Committee was originally formed as the Fibre Business Models Committee at the spring General Assembly 2017, and renamed and given a new mission statement at the spring General Assembly 2021. The Committee discusses the economics for fibre deployment in all types of geographic areas and the business models developed by operators active on retail and wholesale markets. With publications such as this Guide, it reviews and evaluates real-world proven fibre business models and new developments, including financing modalities for fibre roll-out.