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Telefónica reports €1.3bn loss in Q1

Telefónica, the Spanish telco, has presented the results for the first quarter of 2025, marked by the ratification of financial targets for the full year and the strengthening of businesses in the main markets. Net income from continuing operations – those that remain within the Group – stood at €427 million up to March. In […]

May 14, 2025

Virgin Media O2, Daisy Group form new B2B company

Virgin Media O2 and Daisy Group have announced plans to merge their direct B2B operations to create a new force in the UK business communications and IT sector. With annual pro forma revenues of around £1.4 billion, the new entity, formed of substantially all of Virgin Media O2 Business and Daisy Group, will be consolidated […]

May 12, 2025

Leukert joining BT as Chief Digital Officer

BT has appointed Peter Leukert to the role of Chief Digital Officer, in which he will have responsibility for leading BT’s Digital unit and driving the company’s digital transformation. Leukert is currently Group Chief Information Officer at Deutsche Telekom and will join BT on September 1st and be a member of the Executive Committee, reporting […]

May 9, 2025

Nagravision partners with Bango

Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions, has announced a global partnership with UK-based Bango, a specilaist in subscription bundling, to empower telecommunications service providers to build scalable multi-service offers that create more consumer propositions. By leveraging the Digital Vending Machine (DVM) from Bango through the […]

May 8, 2025

Openreach ramps up ‘Stop Sell’ programme

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 163 new exchange locations, covering a record number of 1.6 million premises across the nation, 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 […]

May 7, 2025By Colin Mann

Telenor increases Q1 revenue

Telenor Group has reported that it increased Q1 revenues “during a quarter of global economic instability due to fast-changing tariffs and geopolitical turmoil”. This unpredictability has also created new business opportunities for the Nordics telco. First quarter highlights include: Service revenues of NOK 16.1 billion (€1.3bn) Adjusted EBITDA of NOK 8.6 billion Free cash flow […]

May 6, 2025

Charter slows cord cutting

Charter Communications, the US telco and mass media company, has reported that it slowed losses of pay-TV customers in Q1. The company, led by president and CEO Chris Winfrey, shed another 167,000 residential video customers during the quarter, compared to a year-earlier decline of 392,000. Charter had 12.7 million pay TV subscribers at the end […]

April 25, 2025

Orange Q1 boosted by MEA; Europe stable

Orange has reported that Q1 2025 revenues reached €9.9 billion, up 0.6 per cent year on year (+€62 million) attributed to growth in retail services (+2.4 per cent or +€181 million) and a smaller decline in wholesale services (-3.1 per cent or -€44 million). Equipment sales were 5.7 per cent lower (-€38 million) and other […]

April 24, 2025

Rakuten makes historic satellite video call

AST SpaceMobile (AST) activated one of its first BlueBird satellites over Japan in order to make a video call with staff from cellular telco Rakuten, its partner operator in Japan. Abel Avellan, CEO at AST, commented: “Another historic first! We completed our initial activation of our first BlueBird satellites in Japan with Rakuten Mobile to […]

April 24, 2025

Telia reports “encouraging” Q1

Telia, the Swedish multinational telco, has reported that Q1 revenue increased 3.5 per cent to SEK 20.03 billion (€1.83bn) and like for like, revenue increased 3.3 per cent. Service revenue increased 1.9 per cent to SEK 17.03 billion and like for like, service revenue increased 1.8 per cent. Operating income increased 36.4 per cent to […]

April 24, 2025