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Telia Finland, Teleste collaboration

Teleste and Telia Finland have signed a multi-year collaboration agreement transferring the operation and development responsibilities for broadband and TV services in Telia Finland’s cable network to Teleste. The service transition is expected to conclude by the end of 2024, with a select group of key personnel joining Teleste as part of the transfer. With […]

November 27, 2024

Sacred Scottish island enters the digital age

Engineers are starting work to give the historic island of Iona – the cradle of Christianity in Scotland – an ultrafast broadband tech boost. A mile off the much bigger Isle of Mull in the Inner Hebrides, Iona has been in history books since St Columba established a monastery there in the sixth century. It’s […]

November 26, 2024By Colin Mann

Study: $3.2tn fibre boost for US economy

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 […]

November 25, 2024

Report: UK economy set for £66bn broadband boost

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 […]

November 22, 2024By Colin Mann

Bharti buys Drahi BT stake

Bharti Enterprises has completed acquisition of a 24.5 per cent stake in UK’s BT Group from Patrick Drahi. The stake was sold via Altice UK in two parts, the second of which is now completed. Drahi is under pressure to sell off assets as his Altice Group grapples with €60 billion debt and the fallout […]

November 20, 2024

Forecast: Global telco, pay-TV spend up 2.4% in 2024

Global spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services will reach $1,544 billion (€1,462bn) in 2024, representing an increase of 2.4 per cent year-on-year, according to the Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC). The latest prediction is 1.0 percentage points higher than the version published in the May edition of IDC’s Tracker. […]

November 19, 2024

Swisscom deploys Netcracker solutions

Netcracker Technology has announced that long-standing customer Swisscom will leverage Netcracker’s cloud-native OSS and operations solutions to support its strategy of adopting TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture to achieve decoupling and autonomy of architectural domains. Swisscom’s use of the Netcracker Digital OSS suite will allow the operator to respond to future technical and market requirements across the […]

November 19, 2024

France: Camunda partners with SFR

Camunda, a specialist in process orchestration, has partnered with SFR, a division of Altice France and second largest telecom provider in France, to further enhance its operational support system (OSS). Orchestrating processes within the SFR OSS will make it more seamless for the company to activate, configure, and provision mobile, internet, and other telecommunications services. […]

November 18, 2024

Ofcom: EE, Virgin Media lead pay-TV complaints

Ofcom has published the latest figures for complaints it has received about the UK’s major providers of broadband. mobile and pay-TV services. These figures cover the quarter from April to June 2024.  During that quarter, complaints remained at a similar level to the previous quarter. Complaints about broadband, landline and mobile services fell slightly while complaints […]

November 15, 2024

Charter to acquire Liberty Broadband

Broadband connectivity company and cable operator Charter Communications and Liberty Broadband Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement under which Charter has agreed to acquire Liberty Broadband in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms of the transaction, holders of each class of Liberty Broadband stock will receive 0.236 of a share of Charter common stock […]

November 14, 2024