Who tied the Telecoms knot in 2016? UK Telecoms Acquisitions

We’ve seen a lot of consolidation and ambitious growth in the UK telecom sector in the past few years, here’s the highlights from 2016 in order of approximate deal size (if we’ve missed any out then please comment and we’ll add it in, note that we’ve had to guess at some due to undisclosed sums):

1. 1. Further to BT‘s offer to acquire EE in 2015, the deal finally went through in January 2016. EE was acquired for a whopping £12.5 billion! Hats off to BT , you made number one spot in 2016.
   2. Daisy acquired Alternative Networks for £180 million and also loss making Damovo UK for an undisclosed sum
   3. Maintel acquired Azzurri for £48.5 million
   4. Wavenet acquired by Beech Tree Private Equity for £35 million
   5. GCI acquired Outsourcery and Packet Media
   6. AdEPT Telecom plc Acquires Comms Group UK Limited for £3.5m
   7. AdEPT Telecom Plc acquires Cat Communications Ltd for circa £2 million
   8. Chess acquired Lanway (ICT company) for an undisclosed sum
   9. Solar acquired RDS and Mitel specialist Denwa for an undisclosed sum
   10. Nycomm Group acquired Pennine Telecom / Yealink UK Ltd
   11. Elite Telecom acquired NetCentrix Limited and SystemHOST Limited
   12. Pinnacle acquired adept4
   13. Chess acquires Pinnacle CDT from Pinnacle Technology Group plc
   14. PRS Telecom announce acquisition of DS Chiltern for an undisclosed sum