Deutsche Telekom has successfully demonstrated how mobile connectivity can be provided from the air without interruption. Following the first deployment of a flying base station in a commercial live network last year, the company has now reached the next development milestone. Together with T-Mobile Czech Republic and Primoco UAV, Deutsche Telekom tested the seamless alternating […]
Vodafone Group has completed the buyout of CK Hutchison Group Telecom’s 49 per cent stake in VodafoneThree for £4.3 billion (€4.9bn). As a result, Vodafone now owns 100 per cent of VodafoneThree, the UK mobile operator and broadband provider. The transaction has been fully funded from existing Vodafone Group cash resources. The company says that […]
Cellnex closed the first half of 2026 with “solid organic growth and a marked acceleration in Free Cash Flow generation”. The European telco infrastructure company reported that noth revenue and EBITDAaL increased on an organic basis, driven by strong commercial momentum and continued operating discipline. On a pro-forma organic basis1, revenues grew 5 per cent […]
Virgin Media O2 is weighing options to cut its £22 billion (€25.6bn) debt as investor nerves have seen a spike sell-off in its bonds. Options for owners Telefónica and Liberty Global include cutting VMO2’s expected £200 million dividend this year, shedding jobs and reducing capital expenditure, according to FT reporting. The price of VMO2’s roughly […]
Digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 112 new exchange locations, covering than half a million new premises (554,918) 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 […]
Virgin Media O2 has reported that Q2 revenue fell 7.9 per cent year-on-year on an adjusted basis to £2.4 billion (€2.8bn), while total service revenue was down 3.9 per cent to £2.04 billion. Consumer revenue was down 5 per cent, with consumer fixed service revenue falling 6.2 per cent and consumer mobile service revenue down […]
Charter, the US telco, lost 172,000 Internet customers in Q2 2026, compared with 117,000 Internet subscribers shed during the year-earlier period amid stiff competition from fixed wireless and fibre connection services. Charter narrowed its loss of TV customers to 21,000, against 80,000 TV customers dropped in the same period of 2025, as subscribers did more […]
BT has reported Q1 revenue of £4.3 billion (€5bn), flat year-on-year. Adjusted UK service revenue £3.8 billion down 1 per cent, as growth in broadband and Corporate and Public Sector in Business and customer base growth in Consumer were offset by declines in voice. The telco’s FTTP footprint increased to 23.4 million, an increase of […]
Virgin Media O2 is committing to invest in nature recovery programmes across the UK after joining the Media In Service of Nature movement. The operator has become a strategic partner of the initiative, which encourages the media industry to put a minimum of 0.1 per cent of their marketing and campaign spend towards projects which […]
Andreas Tolpeit will become the new CFO and a member of the Sunrise Executive Committee as of September 1st. Tolpeit succeeds Jany Fruytier, who will leave Sunrise on August 31st following a structured transition. Tolpeit most recently CFO of the global private schools group Cognita, where he improved the company’s financial performance and substantially increased […]