Business Broadband: Moving and shaking

The business broadband market has seen quite a shake-up recently with a number of acquisitions, strategic alliances and joint ventures.

Momentum in the broadband market has gathered pace with a raft of acquisitions, joint venture and strategic alliance announcements of late.

ESB and Vodafone have embarked on a joint venture to invest €450 million in a 100 per cent fibre-to-the-building broadband network offering speeds from 200 Mbps to 1000 Mbps across 50 towns and 500,000 homes and businesses. Meanwhile, mobile network operator Three has just completed its acquisition of O2 and the company ...