As 2019 draws to a close, Juniper Research has created its list of the top 10 technology predictions for 2020. The Top 10 5G – Last-mile fibre rollouts to be replaced by 5G connectivity. OTT TV – Advertising stakeholders to develop functional attribution Ecosystem. Mobility as a Service – Open data in transportation to drive […]
BearingPoint//Beyond has announced that Altibox, a Norwegian broadband provider, is using its Infonova digital business platform to connect its growing business partner ecosystem of regional service providers across Norway and Denmark and broaden customer access to its expanding range of services including full fibre broadband, TV and media. Using the BearingPoint//Beyond digital business platform, Altibox […]
In less than six months, netgem.tv has signed partnership agreements with 12 Ultrafast Fibre providers in the UK offering its TV and Streaming service to a reach of over a quarter of a million of the UK homes, complementing their access to gigabit-enabled fibre broadband. This distribution acceleration comes some two weeks after the addition […]
The number of pay-TV subscriptions in Spain slowed down in the first half of the year with a year-on-year growth of 2.1 per cent to 6.8 million, and with a slight decline of 1.2 per cent on the first three months of 2019, according to the latest report from the CNMC. Movistar leads the market […]
Altice Europe, the debt-ridden cable company, has announced that SFR FTTH, alongside its consortium of financial investors (led by OMERS Infrastructure and including Allianz Capital Partners and AXA Investment Managers – Real Assets), has entered into an exclusivity agreement with Cube Infrastructure Fund and Partners Group (acting on behalf of its clients) regarding the acquisition […]
The UK Labour party has made an election pledge to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030 – if it wins the general election. The plan would mean the re-nationalising part of BT to deliver the policy, and the introduction a tax on tech giants to help pay for […]
Philip Jansen, the chief executive of BT, has warned that real cost of the Labour opposition’s General Election pledge to roll out a full-fibre network nationwide and provide free broadband for all could be as high as £100 billion and that shareholders in BT will be forced to sell at a “deep discount” under a […]
UK multiplay telco Vodafone is expanding its Gigafast Broadband roll-out to bring full fibre services to many more consumers and small businesses in the UK after striking a new commercial deal with network infrastructure provider Openreach. From spring 2020, Vodafone will start making Vodafone Gigafast Broadband available to customers in Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool on […]
Spain’s largest telco Movistar has been fined €6 million for discriminatory actions against its rivals when repairing breakdown in its copper and FTTH networks used by third parties. The company took too much time and delayed without justified cause the provision of its services when repairing breakdowns in the networks used by its competitors. The […]
The fourth largest telco operator in Spain, MásMóvil, has signed a deal with Funds Macquarie Capital and Aberdeen Standard Investments to sell them 940,000 building units FTTH network in the country for €218.5 million. Macquarie Capital will set up a new company to offer broadband connections to homes and enterprises in five Spanish cities: Madrid, […]