{"id":1005222,"date":"2026-04-28T08:55:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005222"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:39:07","slug":"kkr-macquarie-in-italy-backed-talks-over-telecoms-network-commercial-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/28\/kkr-macquarie-in-italy-backed-talks-over-telecoms-network-commercial-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"KKR, Macquarie in Italy-backed talks over telecoms network commercial deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN: The owners of Italian telecommunications companies FiberCop and Open Fiber are discussing the terms of a possible commercial deal to complete the country&#8217;s high-speed broadband rollout, three sources close to the matter said. <\/p>\n<p>FiberCop has the Italian government and U.S. fund KKR as its main investors, after in 2024 they partnered in a 19-billion-euro ($22 billion) buyout \u200cwhich remains \u2060KKR&#8217;s largest \u2060deal in Europe to date. <\/p>\n<p>Italy and KKR have been at odds over Rome&#8217;s push to merge FiberCop with rival Open Fiber, due to concerns over valuation and debt ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILAN: The owners of Italian telecommunications companies FiberCop and Open Fiber are discussing the terms of a possible commercial deal to complete the country&#8217;s high-speed broadband rollout, three sources close to the matter said. FiberCop has the Italian government and U.S. fund KKR as its main investors, after in 2024 they partnered in a 19-billion-euro ($22 billion) buyout \u200cwhich remains \u2060KKR&#8217;s largest \u2060deal in Europe to date. Italy and KKR have been at odds over Rome&#8217;s push to merge FiberCop with rival Open Fiber, due to concerns over valuation and debt ratings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005248,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005222\/revisions\/1005248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}