A new report from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) and Stantec reveals that digital infrastructure provider Openreach’s ongoing upgrades to Ultrafast Full Fibre broadband across the country could deliver a £66 billion (€79bn) boost to the UK economy by 2029. The upgrade is expected to drive productivity gains and improvements to public […]

Bharti Enterprises has completed acquisition of a 24.5 per cent stake in UK’s BT Group from Patrick Drahi. The stake was sold via Altice UK in two parts, the second of which is now completed. Drahi is under pressure to sell off assets as his Altice Group grapples with €60 billion debt and the fallout […]

Global spending on telecommunications and pay-TV services will reach $1,544 billion (€1,462bn) in 2024, representing an increase of 2.4 per cent year-on-year, according to the Worldwide Semiannual Telecom Services Tracker published by International Data Corporation (IDC). The latest prediction is 1.0 percentage points higher than the version published in the May edition of IDC’s Tracker. […]

Netcracker Technology has announced that long-standing customer Swisscom will leverage Netcracker’s cloud-native OSS and operations solutions to support its strategy of adopting TM Forum’s Open Digital Architecture to achieve decoupling and autonomy of architectural domains. Swisscom’s use of the Netcracker Digital OSS suite will allow the operator to respond to future technical and market requirements across the […]

Camunda, a specialist in process orchestration, has partnered with SFR, a division of Altice France and second largest telecom provider in France, to further enhance its operational support system (OSS). Orchestrating processes within the SFR OSS will make it more seamless for the company to activate, configure, and provision mobile, internet, and other telecommunications services. […]

Ofcom has published the latest figures for complaints it has received about the UK’s major providers of broadband. mobile and pay-TV services. These figures cover the quarter from April to June 2024.  During that quarter, complaints remained at a similar level to the previous quarter. Complaints about broadband, landline and mobile services fell slightly while complaints […]

Broadband connectivity company and cable operator Charter Communications and Liberty Broadband Corporation have entered into a definitive agreement under which Charter has agreed to acquire Liberty Broadband in an all-stock transaction. Under the terms of the transaction, holders of each class of Liberty Broadband stock will receive 0.236 of a share of Charter common stock […]

Following the announcement of the acquisition of Vodafone Italia on March 15th, Swisscom notified the transaction to the Italian Authority for Communications (AGCOM) on September 17th. On November 6th, AGCOM cleared the transaction unconditionally. Overall, completion of the Vodafone Italia transaction is on track. Swisscom secured the financing for the purchase price of €8 billion […]

Deutsche Telekom has reported that it “remained on course for success” in Q3 2024, in line with the plans recently outlined by the company at its Capital Markets Day in mid-October. Revenue increased in the period from July to September by 3.6 per cent year-on-year in organic terms – i.e., excluding exchange rate fluctuations and […]

Juniper Research, experts in telecommunications markets, has revealed the 10 trends it predicts are poised to transform the telecommunications landscape in 2025. Juniper Research expects a year of seismic shifts, as telcos prioritise strategic investments in emerging technologies such as Wi-Fi 7, MVNO-in-a-Box, and early moves toward 6G – while technological innovations such as travel […]