Open Fiber, the sole wholesale-only player in the Italian broadband market, has selected Nokia for a fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) rollout that will bring ultra-broadband services to the small towns and rural areas of Italy. The Open Fiber network will bring optical fibre from a point of presence to the customer’s home and deliver speeds of up […]
The football TV war is the main factor in Vodafone Spain announcing a 7.3 per cent fall in revenues – to €1.16 billion – in its third fiscal quarter (October-December). The previous quarter ‘s revenues (July-September) also dropped by 4.8 per cent, marking a negative trend. In the third quarter, TV subscribers rose by just […]
Parts of central London, Stroud, Tunbridge Wells and Canterbury were among the more surprising areas suffering from the worst broadband in the UK, according to Which? analysis of customer speed tests. The consumer champion found that while rural Scotland and Wales still have Britain’s slowest average connection speeds, many local authority areas including in the […]
Orange Spain has denied press reports the group is considering taking a 100 per cent stake in the Basque-country-based telco operator Euskaltel. In a statement to the Spanish stock market regulator, CNMV, Orange Spain was nevertheless ambiguous by stating that the group is always on the lookout for growth opportunities in Spain. Industry observers believe […]
Orange has reportedly hired investment bank Credit Suisse as an adviser to look at acquiring Euskaltel, based in northern Spain, with a market value of €1.3 billion. A merger would allow Orange greater access to Spain’s growing broadband market and Euskaltel’s 800,000 customers. The move would consolidate its market position as number two in Spain. Euskaltel’s […]
Helios Towers, an infrastructure player already present in Tanzania, the Congo, and Ghana, says it is ready to invest $100 million providing new telecoms connectivity in South Africa over the next 3-4 years. Helios (66 per cent) is linking with Vulatel (34 per cent) in a new business, Helios Towers South Africa (HTSA). Kash Pandya, […]
Soon after UK’s Zegona had announced a capital enlargement of over €100 million to become the largest shareholder in the company, Basque Country-based telco operator Euskaltel has unveiled plans to increase revenue by 30 per cent to €800 million by 2022. In its Business Plan 2022, the company forecasts that the EBITDA will reach €400 […]
Industry analytics and technology solutions provider OpenVault has confirmed that TKS – a Vodafone company that provides American TV programming, telephone, Internet and wireless services to US military communities, including service members and civilians, in Europe – is using multiple OpenVault solutions to gain greater insights into broadband usage across its networks to better manage […]
Differences in how certain groups use communications services are explained in regulator Ofcom’s latest Access and Inclusion research report. The report looks at how affordability, take-up and engagement with telecoms, TV and postal services compares across different groups. It focuses on people whose use of different services and devices could be affected by factors such […]
Customers who sign up for combined broadband and TV packages are being hit with loyalty penalties of up to £690 (€766) a year, according to research from UK consumer body Which?. The consumer champion found that two in five of customers (40 per cent) who signed up to so-called dual or triple play (if a […]