Deutsche Telekom to acquire Fiberhost and Inea

Deutsche Telekom has agreed to acquire 100 per cent of Fiberhost, a Polish open-access fixed network operator, together with Inea, a retail broadband and TV provider, for an enterprise valuation of c.€1 billion from current shareholders: Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5, a fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management and minority shareholders. The acquisition will accelerate T-Mobile Polska’s growth by adding Inea’s over 300,000 customers and Fiberhost’s fiber network passing over 1.4 million homes. The transaction marks a new step in T-Mobile Polska’s transformation from a mobile only operator into a fully convergent telecommunication…