US pure-play fibre provider Frontier, in partnership with the Fiber Broadband Association (FBA), has published a new study that finds deploying fibre in the US could generate an estimated $3.24 trillion (€3.11trn) in economic impact by increasing housing values, lifting average household income and creating jobs. According to Frontier, the US currently lags behind most […]
A new report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) and Stantec reveals that digital infrastructure provider Openreach’s ongoing upgrades to Ultrafast Full Fibre broadband across the country could deliver a £66 billion (€79bn) boost to the UK economy by 2029. The upgrade is expected to drive productivity gains and improvements to public […]
BT has reported H1 2024 revenue of £10.1 billion (€12.1bn), down 3 per cent mainly attributed to challenging conditions in Business, principally driven by non-UK trading in its Global and Portfolio channels. In the rest of the Group, lower CPI benefit and continued competitive markets in Consumer were broadly offset by growth in Openreach due […]
Point Topic has provided an update on fixed broadband availability in the UK, tracking the progress between the end of June 2024 and the end of September 2024. The analysis is based on the ThinkPoint broadband availability dataset which includes 1.7 million postcodes. At the end of Q3 2024, the overall FTTP coverage was 23.2 […]
Virgin Media O2 has reported Q3 revenue of £2.7 billion (€3.2bn), down 2.7 per cent YoY – primarily attributed to handset revenue decline offsetting stable consumer service revenues underpinned by fixed ARPU growth. The telco’s total fixed customer base now stands at 5.8 million with 15,000 customer additions in Q3, showing a return to fixed […]
Connect Europe, the association representing the leading connectivity providers in Europe, and market research firm IPSOS, have released Europe’s Digital Pulse: connectivity trends and consumer insights, a new consumer survey examining the digital habits and expectations of consumers across 30 European countries. The main finding of the survey is that an overwhelming majority of Europeans […]
The total multiplay service revenue in Japan is set to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.3 per cent from $29.6 billion (€27.4bn) in 2023 to $34.9 billion in 2028, driven by the rising demand for blended services and growing number of multi-play households in the country, according to GlobalData, the data […]
The total telecom and pay-TV services revenue in the Philippines is expected to increase marginally at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.1 per cent, from $8.2 billion (€7.5bn) in 2023 to $8.7 billion in 2028, supported by the uptick in revenue from fixed broadband services, according to GlobalData, the data and analytics company. […]
In a challenge brought by AT&T Services, BBB National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD) has recommended Comcast Cable Communications, in connection with Comcast Business Internet discontinue its claim that “Comcast Business Internet has speeds up to 12x faster than Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile” in markets where AT&T offers a wired fibre product with speeds faster […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 79 new exchange locations, covering more than 900k premises across the UK, where the business plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast Full Fibre connection. The business is giving […]