French telco Iliad has reported H1 revenues are up 7.3 per cent year-on-year to €2,464 million. The Group continued its FTTH rollout drive during the first six months of 2017, with 900,000 new connectible sockets installed, bringing the total to 5.3 million at June 30th 2017, and some 110,000 additional subscribers connected to fibre during […]
Swedish telco Com Hem is to offer a range of “digital” services to customers after signing a deal with TMPL, provider of ‘social media platform to premises’, typically multi-dwelling units, that offers various services to those who live there. The company said customers could book laundry, order groceries, book or share vehicles and order food […]
Multinational cable, fibre, telecommunications, content and media company Altice has entered into several agreements relating to the acquisition of its telco subsidiary SFR Group shares through exchanges against Altice N.V. common shares A. These agreements ensure the holding by the Altice group of 95.9 per cent of the share capital and voting rights of SFR […]
Pay-TV group Sky is in talks with Italian wholesale network operator Open Fiber as part of its plans to offer a high-speed broadband service in Italy. A deal could be reached in October and Sky could start offering the new service as early as the first quarter of 2018, sources familiar with the matter told […]
Deutsche Telekom, Europe’s biggest telecom company, has posted quarterly results that topped expectations, with a 9 per cent rise in core profit powered by strength in the US and modest gains in Germany and Europe. The German telco lifted up its 2017 outlook for core profit to around €22.3 billion from €22.2 billion. Q2 results […]
Italy’s Communications Authority AgCom has received a proposal from Vivendi, “to partially integrate and modify the plan presented on June 19th, aimed at eliminating the position of dominant influence on Mediaset”. In a statement, the telecommunications sector regulator said that it now expects Vivendi to provide further details how it intends to “structurally remove the […]
The British Infrastructure Group of MPs (BIG) has called for UK Government to introduce legislation setting the terms for a broadband Universal Service Obligation, and for comms regulator Ofcom to consider fixed broadband speeds in a new system of automatic compensation. The recommendations are contained in Broadbad 2.0, a comprehensive investigation into broadband customer services […]
BT has proposed to provide universal broadband across the UK by 2020 in an attempt to stave off the spin-off of Openreach and /or a universal service obligation (see above). BT has made a voluntary commitment to offer 10MBps download and 1MBps upload speeds to 99 percent of premises by the end of 2020 expected […]
Thaicom, one of Asia’s leading satellite operators and provider of integrated satellite communications services, has signed an agreement with iSAT, an African telecommunications provider and a subsidiary of Wananchi, to provide iSAT’s key customer in East Africa with fully managed satellite telecommunications services including satellite back-up of its fibre network. Under the agreement, Thaicom will […]
Orange Spain is performing well in capturing new TV subscribers. In the first half of the year, the company increased its TV subscription base with 540,000 adds – up 42 per cent on the same period last year. As a whole, the company has over 20 million customers in Spain of which 15.8 million are […]