FTTH: Contact scenarios between OTE and Nova for infrastructure

Scenarios astir imaginable changes successful the ownership of fiber-to-the-home and concern (FTTH) infrastructure are circulating, with marketplace sources referring to discussions betwixt OTE and Nova.

According to the aforesaid sources, a imaginable acquisition by OTE of Nova’s FTTH web is astatine the halfway of these contacts, though neither enactment has confirmed oregon denied the reports, saying “no comment”. Based connected Nova’s latest published data, United Fiber (UF), a wholly owned subsidiary of United Group (which besides owns Nova), had deployed astir 850,000 FTTH connections by aboriginal this year, with a target of reaching 950,000 by the summer.

Of this total, the highest attraction is successful Attica with astir 520,000 connections, followed by Thessaloniki with 110,000, the Peloponnese with 95,000, Crete—primarily Heraklion—with 70,000, and Thessaly with 55,000. United Fiber’s concern programme besides includes the interconnection of Athens and Thessaloniki via a fiber-optic infrastructure of astir 600 kilometers, a task completed successful 2025 that enhances connectivity some domestically and with networks successful Southeastern and Western Europe. OTE is the country’s largest FTTH infrastructure provider, having deployed astir 2.1 cardinal connections. Its target, according to absorption statements and pursuing the afloat presumption of the partially subsidized Ultra Fast Broadband (UFBB) project, is to scope 3.5 cardinal connections by 2030.

Meanwhile, the fibre marketplace is evolving successful an progressively competitory environment, with PPC besides entering the assemblage done the improvement of its FiberGrid network. Under its strategic plan, the web is expected to screen astir 3.8 cardinal households and businesses by 2028, while according to the astir caller available information it has already reached sum of 1.7 million.

Despite statements from Nova’s absorption that the institution is not successful a merchantability process, its main shareholder, backstage equity money BC Partners, operates within a defined concern horizon, a origin which, according to marketplace participants, keeps each options open. BC Partners CEO Nikos Stathopoulos, speaking precocious astatine the Delphi Economic Forum, stated that “I americium very satisfied with the Nova venture,” adding that helium is bushed of proceeding that “it is for sale.”

This statement concerns the company’s wide presence, while the aforementioned accusation is constricted to the infrastructure level.