In reporting its Q1 results, BT has revealed that it added 60,000 TV customers in the quarter, bringing its total to 1.2 million. BT Sport average daily audience figures increased 51 per cent, which the telco said was its best performance since launch, reflecting the improvements it had made to the BT TV offering. Adjusted […]
The UK Government has welcomed BT’s news that the telco will make up to £129 million (€183m) available to extend the Government led roll-out of superfast broadband. The funding will be made available to local authorities to reinvest the money in providing further superfast broadband coverage to even more homes and businesses and much earlier […]
Italian broadband operator Tiscali has signed a partnership agreement with Mediaset Group to offer the Infinity streaming service to its customers. All new subscribers of Tiscali’s fixed network services Fibre Full and All Included Full, as well as mobile subscribers of the Super 3 Giga and Super Inclusive packages, will receive 12 months free access […]
Luxembourg-based telco Altice Group has reported revenue of €3.9 million for the three months June 30th, down 2 per cent on an annualised basis. The majority of the company’s turnover was generated in France, where it owns the newly merged Numericable-SFR full-service operator; revenue derived from French operations dropped 2.5 per cent year-on-year to €2.7 […]
Home Box Office (HBO) and Verizon have agreed a deal that includes the right for Verizon to distribute HBO NOW, HBO’s OTT service, to Verizon digital platforms, including to more than 100 million Verizon Wireless customers and other consumers with handsets and/or tablets. HBO NOW is immediately available to all Verizon standalone broadband customers, including […]
Spain’s second largest telecom group Vodafone-ONO will cut up to 1,300 jobs (40 per cent from Vodafone and 60 per cent from ONO) following last year’s acquisition of the country’s largest cable operator ONO. The company will hold talks with unions during September to discuss the cut of its workforce. The company cited the ONO […]
Zegona – an operating company established in March 2015 with the objective of acquiring businesses in the European Telecommunications, Media and Technology sector – has reached agreement with global alternative asset manager, The Carlyle Group and Liberbank, to acquire Telecable de Asturias S.A., the leading quad-play telecommunications operator in Asturias, North West Spain, for an […]
BT has announced price hikes for its broadband and landline services. The telco has confirmed that broadband prices will also increase by 6.9 per cent from September 20th. BT said its price rises come on the back of similar increases by other telecoms providers, including Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media. Standard line rental is to […]
AT&T lost 22,000 U-verse TV subscribers in Q2, compared to 190,000 net adds in the same quarter a year ago. The US telco, which ended Q2 with 5.97 million video subs, blamed typical “seasonality” over cord-cutting, alongside the decision to target promotions to more profitable, higher-value subscribers. “On the U-verse video side, the first point […]
In a further consolidation of the Spanish cable market, Basque Country-based operator Euskaltel has bought Galician R Cable for €1.155 billion to create a large regional cable group in the north of Spain – with the companies retaining their own brands – with a network of 725,000 km and over 715,000 subscribers. Euskaltel has offered […]