CGI has been awarded the One IT Operations Outsourcing contract by UK telecommunications company TalkTalk. The contract will see CGI strengthen TalkTalk’s operational services over the next five years, it says. TalkTalk’s five-year One IT Operations contract forms part of a business-wide transformation programme for better customer experience and operational excellence. Having developed its IT […]
Huawei and Bouygues Telecom have announced a joint innovation programem to experiment 5G in France. Bouygues Telecom is part of the first operators worldwide to experiment 5G 3GPP in field with Huawei. Bordeaux will be the first city for a 5G network trial, from single site to multi-site coverage. With the release of industry’s first […]
More UK homes are set to benefit from ultrafast Internet speeds, after a draft decision by comms regulator Ofcom that it says will will halve the upfront cost of building ‘full-fibre’ broadband networks. Full-fibre broadband is many times faster – and around five times more reliable – than today’s superfast internet services. But it is […]
MásMóvil, the fourth ranked Spanish telco, and Huawei are preparing to launch their pay-TV offer within the next few weeks. They have entered into an alliance with Agile Content, a specialist in TV content and big data, to provide the TV service. With this agreement, MásMóvil and Huawei aim to avoid paying the 0.7 per […]
Orange Spain is performing well in a competitive market in terms of profits and subscribers. The company ended the year with 17 per cent rise in EBITDA up to €1.58 billion on revenues of €5.37 billion, and up 7.1 per cent year-on-year. Spain is the country with the highest growth for the French telco group, […]
Bouygues Telecom has signed a deal to bring M6 content to its subscribers in France. The agreement will allow Bouygues to offer the M6 library to subscribers including flagship channel M6, as well as W9, 6ter, Paris Premiere, Teva, M6 Music, M6 Shop, Best of Shopping and Girondins TV. Bouygues subscribers will also be able […]
androme.tv has launched in Belgium – an all-in-one TV platform that aims to solve the challenges telecommunications companies and broadcasters currently face. Previously, Androme has developed TV platforms for telecommunications companies such as Telenet and Liberty Global. Now, the androme.tv platform is live at European telco companies Nowo (Portugal) and Melita (Malta). Raf Van Ham, […]
KEYMILE has identified five prevailing trends on Germany’s telecommunications market: rising bandwidth demand due to new online services, fibre to the home, hybrid solution scenarios, vectoring and partnerships between competitors. In Germany, broadband expansion is progressing slowly but surely. According to information from the industry association VATM, approximately 3.1 million homes were connected to optical […]
Liberty Global has announced its Q4 and full-year 2017 financial results. The international telco reported full year revenues of $15 billion, $3.9 billion of which were generated in the 4th quarter. This represented a rise of 2.3 per cent on the full year and 2.9 per cent on the 4th quarter. However, operating income for […]
Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar has launched a new package combining movies and TV series branded ‘Movistar Fusión Ocio Total’. The package is available at €125 a month and also includes a broadband connection of 300 Mbps, unlimited calls to fixed numbers. It also encompasses the Familiar package with over 80 TV channels, the cinema offer […]