Altice Group has sold Portuguese cable operator Cabovisão and Oni, a small telecom operator providing services for business customers, to Apax France for an undisclosed price. Altice had set a book value of €115.0 million for the two operators (of which €17.90 for Cabovisão) in its H1 2015 financials, well below the €300 million valuation […]
Fleur Pellerin , the French Minister of Culture and Communication, has confirmed government plans to increase the telco tax from 0.9 per cent to 1.2 per cent of their annual revenues and limit to €1 the rise in the TV licence fee so as to give larger resources to PSB groups France Télévisions and Radio […]
Telefonica is speeding up the deployment of its optic fibre network to reach a 97 per cent coverage of all Spanish households by 2020, with a remaining 3 per cent out of the plans due to technnical or geographical reasons, as confirmed the president of Telefonica España, Luis Miguel Gilpérez. To meet the target, the […]
Triple-play operator UPC Ireland has announced plans to move to the Virgin Media brand as a platform for what it says is further growth and continued delivery of great customer experiences. Magnus Ternsjö, CEO of UPC Ireland, said that introducing the Virgin Media brand to Ireland was a big investment in its business and its […]
Residents of Huntingdon – a market town in Cambridgeshire – have became the first people in the UK to take part in the field trial of a new type of ultrafast broadband technology from BT which will allow people to stream live ultra-high-definition 4K video content to multiple devices at once. The trial, which is […]
The Altice Group is the market leader for bundled offers in Portugal in double-play (2P), triple-play (3P) and quintuple-play (5P), while NOS leads in the quadruple-play (4P) category. Overall, the Altice Group has the highest share of the bundled services market (48.8 per cent), followed by NOS Group (38.8 per cent) and Vodafone Portugal (12.4 […]
UK digital communications company EE has unveiled a host of updated features for EE TV set to launch on the 25th August for new and existing customers. Focused on personalisation and social sharing, the new additions have been developed with mobile front of mind. Building on EE TV’s original features, the latest software update allows […]
Major international cable service providers are backing RDK and Mike Fries, CEO of Liberty Global, has said it is as transformational as DOCSIS. So, is RDK set to become a world standard for CPE as cable ups the innovation rate to try and match OTT challengers? Advanced Television gathered four top executives to debate the […]
In addition to the pay-TV football price war, Spain’s telcos, Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange are also involved in a fierce fight to offer the fastest speed through their networks. France Telecom-owned Orange has upgraded its FTTH network with speeds of up to 1Gbps using the XG-PON technology that allows four times faster downloaded speeds and […]
In the first half of 2015, Swisscom saw net revenue increased by CHF 58 million (€53.9m) or 1 per cent year-on-year to CHF 5,758 million. On a like-for-like basis, revenue increased by CHF 105 million or 1.8 per cent for Switzerland’s dominant telco, of which CHF 41 million was attributable to the Swiss business. EBITDA […]