{"id":1025072,"date":"2026-07-31T07:30:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025072"},"modified":"2026-07-31T07:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T02:03:51","slug":"cityfibre-seeks-to-raise-1-20-billion-for-acquisitions-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/31\/cityfibre-seeks-to-raise-1-20-billion-for-acquisitions-report\/","title":{"rendered":"CityFibre seeks to raise $1.20 billion for acquisitions: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British fibre broadband network CityFibre is seeking to raise \u00a3900 million ($1.20 billion) from its shareholders to fund further acquisitions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing a person familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>A \u2060spokesperson \u2060for Britain&#8217;s third-largest broadband network said shareholders were proposing a &#8220;substantial equity investment&#8221; to support M&amp;A, as CityFibre explores the &#8220;right capital structure&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The report said investors providing equity financing include Goldman Sachs Group, Antin Infrastructure Partners SA, Mubadala Investment \u2060and Interogo Holding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British fibre broadband network CityFibre is seeking to raise \u00a3900 million ($1.20 billion) from its shareholders to fund further acquisitions, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday citing a person familiar with the matter. A \u2060spokesperson \u2060for Britain&#8217;s third-largest broadband network said shareholders were proposing a &#8220;substantial equity investment&#8221; to support M&amp;A, as CityFibre explores the &#8220;right capital structure&#8221;. The report said investors providing equity financing include Goldman Sachs Group, Antin Infrastructure Partners SA, Mubadala Investment \u2060and Interogo Holding.<\/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-1025072","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\/1025072","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=1025072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025091,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025072\/revisions\/1025091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}