Status Realised (2022)
Overview
- Sector digital
- Investment Year 2018
- Country Netherlands
Key Metrics
- Ownership >98%
- GRESB 2021 2nd out of 9 Fibre networks
- Employees c.15
- Homes Passed >177,000
- Municipalities 20
- Project Footprint >336,000 homes passed at completion
Market
- Strong underlying demand for ultra-fast broadband, driven by exponential growth in consumer data consumption
- Significant addressable market in less densely populated areas where existing infrastructure is dependent on older technologies
- Supportive macro environment with stable GDP growth, high consumer spending, and policy support for next-generation infrastructure
Asset
- E-Fiber operates primarily as an open-access, wholesale fibre-to-the-home platform providing increasingly critical broadband infrastructure to the communities it serves
- The company receives wholesale fees from local and national internet service providers based on the number of users using its network
- E-Fiber has strong competitive positioning as generally the sole provider of fibre-to-the-home networks in municipalities where the company has an established network
- Network design and build is state-of-the-art, with future-proof characteristics and flexibility for multiple use cases
- Strong alignment through shareholding with senior management team, who are deeply experienced in fibre-to-the-home deployment in the Netherlands