Lizarraga Defends BTL Acquisitions as Economic Necessity

Amid growing concerns about transparency and market competition, BTL Chairman Markhelm Lizarraga says the push to acquire other providers is driven by economic logic and infrastructure efficiency. He maintains that BTL has already invested heavily in its network and that absorbing existing customers would help maximize that investment and boost cash flow.

 

Markhelm Lizarraga, Chairman, BTL

“When the company invested a hundred million dollars in the fiber to the home, we have a backbone that I think covers – CEO eighty-five to ninety percent of the homes passed in the country, right? Yes. So we already have the pipe in front of your house, and a lot of these companies have the little last mile connected to the homes. So we bring in the broadband. We have a lot of the pipes. They have a lot of the pipes, and they carry that last mile to the homes. So again, the value for us is to stop the duplication of all of the lines you see pan the lamp posts right. Buy the customers and the cash flow from that so that we could continue to justify the robust infrastructure that we need to have as an essential service. So we’re buying cash flow and customer base, right? To full our pipes, to full the capacity that we have already. [What’s so many people] That’s the attractiveness.”