The Colombian telecommunication services industry is undergoing rapid change due to increasing consumer dependence on wireless-enabled services. Frost & Sullivan’s latest analysis, Colombian Telecommunication Services Market, Forecast to 2022, expects the business to top 11.5 billion by 2021 with fixed and mobile broadband, IPTV and machine-to-machine (M2M) services to grow at double-digit rates. Revenue for […]
Israeli telco conglomerate Eurocom Group has been ordered by a Tel Aviv court to enter liquidation. The business, which includes a 57 per cent stake in satellite operator Spacecom, and telco Bezeq, will start liquidation proceedings on May 3rd, according to a ruling from Judge Eitan Orenstein. Eurocom is beset with legal problems, not least […]
The European Commission has notified Altice of its decision to impose upon it a €124.5 million fine for gun jumping in connection with Altice’s acquisition of PT Portugal in June 2015. The Commission found that Altice infringed the prior notification obligation of a concentration under Article 4(1) of the EU Merger Regulation, and the stand-still […]
According to Dataxis research, the global revenues of 80 pay-TV/OTT and telecom players reached $410 billion (€336bn) in Q4 2017. The revenues have grown at a CAGR of 1 per cent, from $381 billion in Q1 2016. Adding further to the analysis, the market share by players based on revenues, shows that
UK comms regulator Ofcom has published the final outcome of its auction to release more airwaves for 4G mobile and future 5G services. On April 5th, Ofcom announced which companies had won the right to use spectrum in two bands through the ‘principal’ stage of the auction, and the amounts they would pay. It has […]
Italy’s Competition and Market Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) has given its go-ahead for plans by TIM and Fastweb to build a FTTH fibre-optic network covering 29 biggest Italian cities via the joint company Flash Fiber. In a statement, the antitrust body said it accepted the binding commitments presented by the two […]
The biggest speed increase on the Netflix ISP Speed Index for March – the monthly update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best primetime Netflix streaming experience – went to Japan’s Softbank (Fibre), helping the ISP rise 11 spots to second in Japan. Softbank’s Fibre offering’s speeds increased by 0.67 Megabits per second […]
Driven by growth in mobile data, fixed broadband and pay-TV, the total telecom and pay-TV services revenue in Japan is expected to grow at a CAGR of 2.2 per cent over the forecast period of 2017-2022, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. With a total of 168 million subscriptions in 2017, the Japanese mobile […]
In a move designed to boost the take-up of fibre and pay-TV services across Italy, Sky Italia and fibre optic infrastructure provider Open Fiber have agreed a long-term deal to launch a fibre-only service from summer 2019. This fibre-only service will be available alongside Sky’s existing services. The deal will give Sky access to Open […]
The first results from a broadband speed testing programme undertaken by the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) suggest that nbn (national broadband network) broadband services from iiNet, Optus, Telstra and TPG are now delivering between 80 and just over 90 per cent of the maximum plan speeds in the evening busy hours. The report, […]