Philip Carse

Philip Carse is the Chief Analyst at Megabuyte, the UK technology-sector intelligence firm founded and led by Ian Spence. He is based in Reading, England. Public records indicate he took the Chief Analyst role around January 2010, joining to expand the firm's research coverage into the telecoms/communications sector — an area that has since become one of his signature specialisms.

Megabuyte itself is a subscription research service that analyses the financial performance and corporate strategy of early-stage, scale-up and mid-market UK technology and digital companies, providing data, peer-group benchmarking and analyst opinion on individual companies and broader sector trends. Beyond published research, the firm runs commercial due-diligence and M&A "discovery" work for clients, and Carse contributes to these engagements as its lead analyst.

Carse is a prolific commentator on the UK communications market. He writes recurring **quarterly market reviews and sector analysis for *Comms Dealer*, covering corporate activity, M&A, and the trading performance of leading comms and IT-services companies. He has become a go-to voice on the full-fibre (FTTP) and "altnet"** buildout, regularly assessing the numbers behind Openreach, Virgin Media O2 (VMO2), CityFibre and challenger networks such as Netomnia, Community Fibre, Fibrus and Ogi.

He is also a fixture at Megabuyte's own events — presenting "state of the nation" overviews and chairing panels at the firm's ICT channel conference and CEOSummit series, and supporting the Megabuyte100 / Megabuyte50 awards, which recognise financial performance among UK technology companies.

• Professionally focused on UK technology, telecoms, IT services and software — the same universe Megabuyte covers: early-stage, scale-up and mid-market digital companies.
• Analytical lens is fundamentals-driven: financial performance, unit economics, build rates, revenue/EBITDA trajectory, debt raises and M&A — as seen in his coverage of altnet build rates, CityFibre's revenue milestones and challenger-network funding rounds.
• Deep specialism in connectivity / full-fibre infrastructure and the communications channel (Openreach, VMO2, CityFibre, and the altnet ecosystem).
• No publicly stated personal investment thesis or check-size was found; his published "thesis" is expressed through equity-style research and sector commentary rather than a documented angel portfolio.