The football TV war and the proliferation of low-cost packages is seeing Vodafone Spain drastically cut staff. The company has announced a redundancy plan that will affect 1,200 out of its total workforce in Spain of 5,000. Vodafone states that the layoffs, to take effect in February and March, are the result of the obligation to […]
Orange Spain is reportedly interested in acquiring Euskaltel following UK-based Zegona’s decision to withdraw its bid for the company. According to El Economista, Orange and Euskaltel have a healthy relationship as a result of their partnership in mobile networks, with Euskaltel using Orange’s infrastructure since 2014. Kutxabank, the largest shareholder in the Basque-country-based company with […]
Másmóvil, the fourth largest telco in Spain, has reached 1 million broadband subscribers in just two years of operations. The group saw significant growth in 2018 with almost 500,000 new customers versus a rise of 382,000 and 122,000 in 2017 and 2016 respectively. Out of the 1 million broadband subscribers 670,000 are FTTH customers and […]
Tele2 and Deutsche Telekom have completed the merger of their Dutch operations. Tele2 Netherlands has now been absorbed by T-Mobile in the Netherlands. The merger was announced on December 15th 2017, and has since gone through a regulatory process, including approval by the European Commission without conditions. Today (January 2nd), Tele2 NL and Deutsche Telekom […]
Australian pay-TV operator Fox Sports’ 2019 cricket coverage in 4K is being delivered by Telstra Broadcast Services’ 4K fibre contribution transmission, making it the first Australian telco to offer 4K delivery capability in the country. Telstra Broadcast Services utilises mature third generation dedicated 4K hardware encoding. For Fox Sports, Telstra is supplying a full suite […]
at800 – the organisation responsible for ensuring people continue to receive free-to-air television when 4G mobile services operating at 800 MHz are launched – has confirmed that it will offer help to people whose TV is affected by new mobile masts until at least the end of 2020. The decision has been taken as the […]
Basque-country-based telco Euskaltel has started its national expansion, breaking into Catalonia and shortly into other Spanish regions including Leon, La Rioja and Cantabria. The company has allied with RACC to create RACCtel+, a convergent package (broadband, mobile & fixed telephony and TV) aimed at 600,000 RACC homes. Euskaltel has also entered into an alliance with […]
Mobile and broadband coverage are improving in the UK, but too many rural areas still get a poor signal – according to Ofcom’s major study of the UK’s communications networks. Ofcom’s annual Connected Nations report shows that mobile coverage continues to increase. Almost all homes and offices can get a good, indoor 4G signal from […]
In the latest issue of Euromedia we bring our annual tour of the test and measurement landscape. As broadband capacity has increased, the emphasis has shifted from underwriting the quality of data-heavy video on crowded networks, to monitoring quality and security as unmanaged services and unmanaged devices proliferate across service provider nets. Not just within […]
Half of British households could switch to faster broadband today, UK comms regulator Ofcom has found, as it announces a range of action to protect loyal broadband customers and help people get a better deal. Ofcom figures show that 94 per cent of UK homes and offices can now get superfast broadband, but less than […]