Engineers at UK digital infrastructure business Openreach are trialling a range of new tools and techniques as they work to upgrade 13 of the UK’s rural communities to faster, more reliable and future-proof broadband technology. The trials are part of the company’s ambition to extend its new ‘full’ fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) network into areas that are […]
When at home, 5.1 million people use broadband every single minute, according to UK multiplay operator TalkTalk. There is a new generation of Britons choosing nights in with family, staying in to indulge their online guilty pleasures, forming what TalkTalk has coined the ‘In-Crowd’. With winter nights drawing
Spain’s fifth largest operator Euskaltel, controlled by UK’s Zegona, is seeking a new president following the news that current president Alberto Garcia Erauzkin will not stand for the post in 2020. The company is looking for a president with “no executive functions” to replace Garcia Erauzkin, who joined Euskaltel in 1998 as a Finance Director […]
Singapore multiplay operator StarHub has confirmed the completion of its cable-to-fibre migration for its TV and broadband services. “Over the past 10 months, StarHub assisted hundreds of thousands of customers to migrate from cable services to superior, high-speed fibre services,” advised Johan Buse, Chief of Consumer Business Group, StarHub. “Migrations of this scale are never […]
Openreach, the UK’s digital infrastructure company, has announced 29 towns, cities and boroughs where it will be building new future-proof Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband technology over the next year and a half. For the first time, Openreach is extending the published view of its build plans from 12 to 18 months, providing customers, councils and the […]
Research from analyst firm Parks Associates finds that more than 33 per cent of US broadband households cite some level of familiarity with 5G and over 40 per cent of US broadband households are interested in 5G. The report, Technology Market Assessment: 5G Network Services, examines
The Supervisory Board of KPN has announced the appointment of Joost Farwerck as the next CEO and Chairman of the Board of Management of KPN, subject to Works Council advice. The news follows the announcement that the Dutch telco would be cancelling the appointment of Dominique Leroy due to a police investigation into shares sales. […]
MásMóvil, the fourth largest operator in Spain, has seemingly benefitted from the ongoing football war in Spain. Since August 2018, the company has captured some 400,000 broadband lines, whereas Vodafone and Orange have lost subsscribers and Movistar has only seen a slight increase. Movistar has won 37,000 broadband lines associated with football in the last […]
Sunrise is revising its financing on its bid for UPC Switzerland again – and is reducing the size of the rights issue in a bid to secure shareholder approval for the deal. It will now reduce the size of the rights issue by CHF1.3 billion (€1.2 billion) to CHF2.8 billion ahead of a shareholder meeting […]
Dutch telco KPN has confirmed it will no longer appoint Dominique Leroy as its next chief executive. She was set to start her new role on December 1st, however she is under investigation for her sale of shares in Proximus, the company she was leaving. KPN said in a statement that it “regrets to announce […]