Ofcom is consulting on plans to cut the price BT’s Openreach can charge other telecoms companies for access to its network by up to 40 per cent. Openreach would also face stricter deadlines for repairing faults and installing new lines and face fines for non-compliance. Ofcom said it expects operators to pass the lower access […]
For the first time, pay-TV in Spain has surpassed the 6 million subscribers mark, according to the latest report from Spain’s competition watchdog Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC). In the third quarter of 2016, pay-TV reached 6,006,326 subs, up almost 600,000 more than the previous quarter with 5,430,887. IPTV claimed the most, with […]
Dominant UK telco BT is to be fined £42 million (€48.5m) for what regulator Ofcom describes as a “serious” breach of its rules, after the company reduced compensation payments to other telecoms providers for late installations. The penalty is a result of an investigation by Ofcom into BT’s infrastructure arm, Openreach. BT has apologised “wholeheartedly” […]
Quad-play operator Virgin Media has become the first widely-available UK broadband provider to offer ultrafast speeds of 100Mbps and above as standard as it revamps its bundles and launches the Virgin Fibre brand, putting pressure on BT’s Openreach to raise its speeds. This move reaffirms Virgin Media’s position as the UK’s ultrafast broadband provider with […]
Global Pay TV operator SPI / Filmbox has launched online and STB service called Filmbox OnDemand with Magyar Telekom, Hungary’s largest telecommunication operator. Filmbox OnDemand, offers a custom selection of Filmbox library and consists of both movies and TV series which air on Filmbox channels. Magyar Telekom has made Filmbox OD available within its SVoD […]
Openreach has announced a major expansion of its engineering workforce with plans to recruit 1,500 trainees as part of its drive to improve customer service and invest in the operation of its network. Over the next eight months, the business will be seeking recruits from across the country to fill the new, full-time and permanent […]
Altice, the Netherlands-based multinational telco, has announced that Bruno Zerbib has joined the management team as Altice Group Chief Technology Officer, effective immediately. He will lead Altice’s global technology and infrastructure journey. Zerbib joins us from Hewlett Packard Enterprise where he held the position of Vice President Product Management, Cloud BU, and before that he […]
According to findings from Leichtman Research Group (LRG), the fourteen largest cable and telephone providers in the US – representing about 95 per cent of the market – acquired about 2.7 million net additional high-speed Internet subscribers in 2016. Annual net broadband additions in 2016 were 87 per cent of the 3.1 million net adds […]
The European Commission has approved under the EU Merger Regulation the $85.4 billion (€78.5bn) acquisition of Time Warner by AT&T. Time Warner provides global media entertainment services, including the production and distribution of television and video programming, home entertainment, feature film and videogame. AT&T is active in global telecommunications and digital entertainment services, but in […]
BT and Ofcom have reached agreement on a long-term regulatory settlement that will see the telco’s infrastructure unit Openreach become a distinct, legally separate company with its own Board, within the BT Group. The agreement is based upon voluntary commitments submitted by BT that the regulator has said meet its competition concerns. Once the agreement […]