In the first quarter of 2016, Swisscom’s net revenue remained virtually unchanged year-on-year at CHF 2,885 million (CHF -8 million or -0.3 per cent). EBITDA rose by 2.9 per cent or CHF 30 million to CHF 1,081 million. The CHF 11 million increase in the Swiss core business can mainly be attributed to lower costs […]
Altice owner and CEO Patrice Drahi is about to consolidate all the group’s media activities into its SFR telecom subsidiary. According to French Sunday newspaper JDD, the reorganisation, set to be announced April 27th, will also lead to the launch by affiliate group NextRadioTV of two pay-TV sport channels called SFR Sport. Those new channels […]
Com Hem, the Swedish telco, has reported Q1 revenue totalled SEK 1,276m (1,228), up 3.9 per cent. The number of unique consumer subscribers rose 9,000 to a total of 920,000. There was a continued strong volume growth in broadband, up 11,000 to 669,000 RGUs. Digital-TV RGU’s totalled 635,000, affected by price adjustments in the quarter, […]
UK consumers can now benefit from faster broadband connections after BT launched its new BT Infinity 1 service offering speeds up to 52Mbps, which the telco says is a faster standard fibre service than Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin. The new BT Infinity 1 up to 52Mbps service offers customers a faster connection, allowing them to […]
Research from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech on the home services market – covering broadband, fixed landline and paid television – reveals a positive outlook for TalkTalk. The provider’s share of new customers in the overall home services market increased by 3.2 percentage points on the last quarter, when consumer data hacks saw around 250,000 of their […]
Orange Spain has completed its redundancy plan that will affect 435 workers, less than the expected 496. The company is also restructuring its executive committe which will now have 11 members after three leading Jazztel executives – marketing director Luis del Pozo, sales director Pablo Lopez and network director Vicente Casciaro – also decided to […]
The number of Dutch households with quad-play subscriptions, including both fixed and mobile services, grew to more than 700,000 at the end of 2015, according to Telecompaper’s Dutch Consumer Multiplay Market report. More than 10 per cent of all broadband subscriptions were part of quad-play plans at the end of Q4 2015, up from 6.1 […]
Various press reports suggest that Hutchison is close to signing a £3 billion capacity agreement as part of its plan to buy the O2 cellular network from Telefonica. The reports say that Sky will pay around £2 billion for 20 per cent of the capacity, and Virgin Media will pay to acquire a 10 percent […]
European telecom stocks have stumbled after a deal to create France’s biggest telecoms group collapsed. French operators Orange and Bouygues Telecom ended talks late on April 1st over the reported €10 billion merger. Bouygues shares are on course for their worst fall in 17 years, plummeting nearly 15 per cent in early trading, while Orange […]
Bloomberg is headlining that Virgin Media’s CEO Tom Mockridge is one of the candidates in line for the CEO position at Telecom Italia, replacing Marco Patuano. Mockridge has run Virgin Media since June 2013 and this appointment followed a period running Sky Italia as its chief executive. Indeed, his position at Sky Italia came about […]