Orange has announced it is officially joining UEFA EURO 2016’s commercial programme as an official telecommunications service provider, and a global sponsor with exclusive worldwide rights. As Official Telecommunications Service Provider, Orange will be providing all fixed and wireless communications services for the tournament. This includes the responsibility for: – Delivering live match signals from […]
British multinational telco Cable & Wireless Communications CWC) and cable MSO Liberty Global have confirmed they are in discussions regarding a possible shares and cash offer for CWC. Under British takeover rules, the company has until November 19 to decide whether to make a formal bid for Cable & Wireless. In a regulatory Statement, CWC […]
Orange Spain is doing better in terms of revenues and clients. In the third quarter of the year, the company managed to slow its decline in revenues, from falls of 2.5 and 5 per cent in the previous quarters to a 1.7 per cent decline to €1.22 billion. Since the acquisition of Jazztel in July, […]
Orange posted higher Q3 sales and core profit for the first time since 2009 helped by stronger results in its key market of France, prompting it to raise its annual profit target. Europe’s fourth largest telco said restated earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) would reach at least €12.3 billion this year, compared […]
A potential future development of G.fast broadband technology, known as ‘XG.FAST’, has achieved speeds of more than 5 Gigabits per second in early experimental lab trials conducted by BT and Alcatel Lucent. The results give BT confidence that G.fast is a future proof technology that can help the UK maintain its position as the leading […]
Tony Cross, Chief Architect of Australia’s nbn (National Broadband Network), has announced in his Keynote Address at the Broadband World Forum 2015 event in London that the company has conducted its first trial of new copper acceleration technology G.Fast and hopes to be in a position to launch the technology in 2017. “We have conducted […]
By the end of 2019, almost 85 per cent of UK households will have signed up to bundles of at least two telecom and media services from the same provider. According to a multiplay services forecast by CCS Insight, multiplay services will continue to disrupt the market. Telecom and media companies will be forced to […]
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BT has responded to Ofcom’s Digital Communications Review, setting out how regulation can help Britain secure its digital future and maintain its position as the leading digital economy in the G20. In its submission, the telco rejects demands for its Openreach network division to be separated from the company and calls for a level playing […]
Mai Fyfield, Sky’s Chief Strategy Officer, has called on regulator Ofcom to refer dominant telco BT’s ownership of its Openreach national network to the Competition and Markets Authority, suggesting that Openreach’s ownership structure means that companies that compete with BT, such as Sky and TalkTalk, cannot work with Openreach on innovations such as fibre to […]