The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections alleging that multinational telecommunications company Altice breached the EU Merger Regulation by implementing its acquisition of telecommunications operator PT Portugal before notification or approval by the Commission. Altice does not agree with the Commission’s preliminary conclusions, and will submit a full response to the statement of […]
UK’s BT is set to cut 4,000 jobs following a “challenging” year that has seen its chief executive stripped of his annual bonus amid a 19 per cent fall in profits to £2.4 billion (€2.8bn). The group’s outgoing finance director, Tony Chanmugam, was also stripped of bonuses. The moves follow BT’s accounting scandal in Italy […]
Comcast, the US telco and largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue, has reported results for the quarter ended March 31st 2017. Brian L. Roberts, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Comcast Corporation, said, “2017 is off to the fastest start in five years. We are reporting outstanding growth at Cable […]
Having signalled his preference for such a move in a keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the end of February, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has confirmed his intention to reverse predecessor Tom Wheeler’s ‘Open Internet’ policy designed to ensure net neutrality. In a speech at the Newseum in Washington, DC on […]
Swedish multi-play operator Com Hem’s Q1 revenue saw a strong increase of 37.7 per cent to SEK 1,757 million (€183.2m) while organic revenue rose by 3.5 per cent to SEK 1,321 million. Digital-TV RGUs totalled 644,000, with a continued growth of 6,000 TiVo customers (penetration rate of 39 per cent). Boxer, the pay-TV operator that […]
UK comms regulator Ofcom has set out detailed plans for improving access to BT’s network arm Openreach’s infrastructure, making it cheaper and easier for competing providers to connect their own fibre broadband directly to homes and offices. Network competition can deliver significant benefits to consumers through choice and innovation, which can deliver higher quality and […]
The latest broadband customer satisfaction survey from consumer body Which? reveals that the UK’s biggest Internet Service Providers are still failing on basic customer service, speed and reliability. This year’s survey of 1,800 broadband users reveals big variations in levels of service, value for money, speed and reliability and found that the four biggest providers […]
Airtel Digital TV, the DTH arm of Indian multiplay operator Bharti Airtel, has launched ‘Internet TV’ – India’s first hybrid STB, powered by Android TV, which brings the best of online content to the TV screen along with a bouquet of over 500 plus satellite TV channels. Airtel ‘Internet TV’ transforms any TV into a […]
Australia’s nbn [national broadband network] has successfully tested Nokia’s universal NG-PON fibre solution in Nokia’s Melbourne lab facility. The trial achieved aggregate broadband speeds of 102Gbps on a single fibre and demonstrated the dynamic provisioning of bandwidth to support surging data demand from residential and business customers. Universal NG-PON converges TWDM-PON (also known as NG-PON2), […]
Despite a broadband connection being considered a modern day essential, research from UK consumer group Which? research reveals that 12.5 million households are frustrated with poor broadband services. To help people to overcome their frustrations, the consumer champion is launching a new speed checker and complaint tool in a drive to get the UK better connected. Which? found that many people […]