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Canadian investment firm Northleaf Capital Partners, which backs alternative UK rural broadband provider Quickline<\/a>, has reportedly started to go cold on a potential acquisition of the incumbent broadband and phone provider for Hull (East Yorkshire), KCOM<\/a>, from Australian investment group Macquarie.<\/p>\n

Regular readers might recall that Northleaf expressed an interest<\/a> in buying KCOM<\/a> all the way back in May 2026, albeit almost certainly for a much smaller sum than Macquarie originally paid for the operator. But a new report in The Times<\/a> (paywall) alleges that the competition watchdog’s provisional opposition<\/a> to nexfibre<\/a>’s (VMO2) proposed \u00a32bn acquisition of Netomnia<\/a> has raised questions about whether further consolidation in the UK broadband market will face regulatory obstacles, which seems to be causing Northleaf to get cold feet.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> KCOM<\/a>\u2019s full fibre network is mostly underground and currently reaches 305,000 premises across parts of East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire (England), some 200,000 of which reflects their coverage across the city of Hull. The operator has around 150,000 customers.<\/div>\n

Quickline<\/a> is currently funded by c.\u00a3500m from Northleaf, as well as c.\u00a3300m of public subsidy from four Project Gigabit contracts (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>), plus c.\u00a3225m in term loans and debt guarantees from the National Wealth Fund and a \u00a325m term loan from NatWest. As of August 2026 their full fibre broadband network covered 260,000 premises<\/strong> (excluding fixed wireless coverage, which also covers c.200,000 premises \u2013 not all gigabit-capable) \u2013 mostly across rural parts of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. The operator currently aims to extend gigabit-capable broadband to 360,000 UK premises.<\/p>\n

By comparison, Macquarie Infrastructure<\/strong> (MIRA \/ MEIF 6 Fibre) acquired KCOM in August 2019 for \u00a3627m<\/strong> (here<\/a>) and promptly began a major network expansion, while also selling off some of the company\u2019s assets. But the operator\u2019s dominance of their core market in Hull, where Ofcom still deem<\/a> them to hold Significant Market Power (SMP), has been eroded by rival networks like MS3<\/a>, Quickline<\/a>, Grain<\/a> and CityFibre<\/a> (Connexin<\/a>).<\/p>\n

According to the regulator, some 80-90% of premises in the Hull Area are now able to pick from at least one alternative network to KCOM. On top of that KCOM revealed a huge c. \u00a3530m write down<\/strong> in the value of their assets in April 2026 (here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Suffice to say that all of this helps to explain why Macquarie hasn\u2019t really made a secret of their desire to exit the business (here<\/a>), ideally before their efforts to restructure KCOM\u2019s current capital structure reach the next set of funding problems in September 2027 (here<\/a>). The problem is that quite a few months have now passed since Northleaf first reportedly expressed an interest in KCOM and no agreement has surfaced, with today’s report suggesting that this now looks even less likely to happen.<\/p>\n

The situation could at the very least delay KCOM’s efforts to sell the business. Alternative options might involve further debt restructuring (i.e. lenders taking more control of the company) or a break-up \/ asset sale of the business. In any case it seems likely that Northleaf will wait to see the final outcome of nexfibre<\/a>’s deal for Netomnia<\/a> before making a decision, although it’s worth noting that there’s very little overbuild between KCOM and Quickline’s FTTP<\/a> networks (i.e. a deal here seems less likely to attract concern from the CMA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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