Swiss4net

Connecting rural Switzerland to fibre

A fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) business that develops, builds and operates FTTH networks in rural and medium dense areas of Switzerland.

Digital

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AEIF2

Vehicle

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2018

Investment year

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Invested

Status

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Switzerland

Country

Asset manager

Martin Puder

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3rd in Western Europe Fibre Networks and 93 out of 100 points

Market

  • Highly fragmented market with significant opportunities for further FTTH network roll out
  • Attractive FTTH consumer market potential with positive tailwinds on commercialisation
  • Favourable Swiss macroeconomic fundamentals with highest income / capita in Europe

Asset

  • State-of-the-art 4 point-to-point fibres per household networks, providing redundancy and spare capacity for future use cases
  • Attractive open-access wholesale business model with revenues underpinned by long-term contracts with national and local CSPs
  • High barriers to entry thanks to long-term exclusive rights over the use of local utility ducts

Arcus news

February 13, 2025
Arcus announces the completion of the sale of AEIF2’s interest in Horizon Energy Infrastructure and Smart Meter Assets
February 4, 2025
Arcus acquires majority stake in Powering, a leading power leasing business in Italy
December 3, 2024
HB acquires TPS Rental Systems Ltd
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Date joined

June 2022

Office

London

English

Polish

French

Afrikaans

Karol joined Arcus in June 2022 as a Senior Investment Executive. Prior to joining Arcus, Karol worked in the digital infrastructure origination team at Amber Infrastructure and in the infrastructure principal investments team at Macquarie Capital. Karol is a member of the Digital Origination Team. His infrastructure experience to date has been primarily focused on infrastructure origination.

Karol holds a BA in Accounting and Finance from University of Manchester.

Management roles

  • Head of Energy Sector Team
  • Investment Committee Member