Gavin Patterson, BT Chief Executive, has described the telco’s first quarter 2018 results as “a good start to the year”, making good progress against its strategy BT reported revenue of £5.715 billion, with underlying revenue down 2 per cent as regulated price reductions in Openreach and declines in its enterprise businesses offset growth in its […]
Spain’s dominant telcos – Telefonica, Orange and Vodafone – have taken all the 5G spectrum on auction in Spain for €437 million, four times more than the initial price. MásMóvil withdrew from the auction by acquiring directly 80 MHz from other operators. Vodafone has bought 90 MHz of the 5G spectrum for €198.1 million, followed […]
Rural connectivity specialist RTO Wireless and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to provide broadband Internet access to more than 290,000 people living in unserved rural regions of New York and Maine. The partnership is part of the Microsoft Airband Initiative, which aims to extend broadband access to 2 million people in unserved portions of rural […]
The creation of a more independent Openreach Limited is nearing completion, after BT Group announced significant progress by starting formal consultation on the transfer of around 31,000 employees to the new legally-separate infrastructure business. As reported by industry regulator Ofcom in June 2018, BT has been taking positive action since March 2017, creating the separate […]
Spanish telco operators are once again up in arms over the RTVE tax, which they claim is an unfair toll. At a conference, the CEO of Vodafone, Antonio Coimbra, described the 0.9 per cent tax on revenues operators have to pay to finance the public broadcaster RTVE as being an “aberration”. In Coimbra’s opinion, it […]
Swedish multi-play operator Com Hem has reported Q2 revenue increased by 1.1 per cent to SEK 1,815 million (€176.6m) for the Group, with Com Hem Segment increasing by 3.5 per cent to SEK 1,411 million. Operating profit (EBIT) of SEK 214m decreased by 3.6 per cent compared to SEK 222 million in the previous year […]
Findings from UK mobile telco EE suggest that its network has seen broadband Internet usage drop drastically throughout all World Cup games. Mobile demand rose as fans streamed the match on the go or moved offline altogether and tuned in on terrestrial television – as well as sharing their reactions on social during half time, […]
Comcast, the US telco giant, has warned its mobile subscribers – even those on an unlimited plan – that they will start seeing video quality drop from 720p to 480p when streamed using mobile data. The company said in a statement that this will allow those paying “By T he Gig” to save money, as […]
Total pay-TV and telecom services revenue in Indonesia is poised to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.7 per cent over the period 2017-2022, mainly driven by growth in mobile data (4G) and fixed broadband revenues, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. Mobile service subscriptions in Indonesia reached 426.6 million at […]
At the end of June 2017, more than three quarters of homes in the 28 countries in the European Union (EU28) had access to high-speed broadband services. For the first time, 4G LTE availability matched 3G HSPA networks, in terms of the number of households covered. Published by the European Commission, the Broadband Coverage in […]