The need for most independent network operators (alt-nets) and their investors is to deliver UK fibre roll-out as fast as possible, to meet ambitious targets and deadlines set by the UK Government. As alt-nets scale in size and numbers, costs per mile, or premises passed, will increase, not decrease, through a lack of projects oversight, efficiency, and skills shortage on every level, resulting in a requirement for significant re-investments, to stay in the game.

Increased competition will drive down revenue and undermine business growth strategies, along with accompanying missed targets, and operators will begin to envelop each other, all of which started to happen in late 2023.