French quad-play operator Free has posted Q3 consolidated revenues up 5.3 per cent to € 1.111 billion, and a total subscriber base of 17 million, which includes 6.08 million broadband and ultra-fast broadband subscribers. Over the quarter, Free, an Iliad Groupsubsidiary, registered 91,000 new broadband and ultra-fast broadband subscribers. Free’s consolidated revenues for the first […]
SpeedCast International, a global satellite telecommunications service provider, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ST Teleport, a satellite communications services provider based in Singapore. The acquisition includes ST Teleport’s teleport facilities and data centre infrastructure in Singapore, a major hub in Asia for global maritime and oil & gas customers. The acquisition enables […]
TalkTalk has announced free upgrades for every TalkTalk home in recognition of the uncertainty caused by the cyber-attack last month. From December 1st, all customers will be able to add a selection of the following to their package at no extra cost and with no additional commitment: – TV content including movies, kids entertainment and […]
Along with its results, Vodafone reported it plans to launch its long-awaited TV service in the UK in the fourth quarter of its 2016 financial year, or by March next year. Vodafone launched home broadband service in October, with availability to 22 million homes, or 95 per cent of BT’s fibre footprint. The company reported […]
Portuguese operator PT Portugal announced plans to extend its fibre optic network to an additional 3 million homes by 2020. Speaking at a press conference, the CEO of PT Portugal, Paulo Neves, said that the operator currently has over 2.3 million households passed, making it the largest fibre optic network in the country. For 2017, […]
Orange Spain is speeding up its FTTH expansion plans and aims to reach 10 million households next year and 14 million by 2020 when it plans to cover 80 per cent of all Spanish cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants. The telco will invest a total of between €1.5 billion and €1.7 billion in extending […]
Australian quad-play operator Optus has won the bid for the exclusive Australian rights to the Barclays Premier League for three seasons, commencing in August 2016. This includes live broadcast coverage and digital rights for broadband and mobile for all 380 Premier League games, every season. The rights were previously held by Fox. Allen Lew, Chief […]
BT’s TV service has reported its best ever quarter with its coverage of Champions League football proving to be a major draw. The telco giant, which paid £900 million (€1.255bn) to grab the exclusive TV rights from pay-TV operator Sky and commercial pubcaster ITV, signed up 106,000 new TV customers in the three months to […]
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared dominant telco BT’s anticipated £12.5 billion (€15.8bn) acquisition of mobile operator EE. The CMA inquiry group had been looking at how the tie-up would affect competition in a number of different areas of the telecoms sector. As well as looking at how the merger might […]
Altice confirmed its annual profit target despite slowing Q3 sales at its French cable and mobile operator. Operating profit at the group rose by 13 per cent from the same quarter last year to €1.53 billion on a “pro forma” basis, which smooths out the impact of acquisitions on the group’s results. Sales slid 2.9 […]