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Telecom Italia to buy out media unit

Telecom Italia will incorporate its Telecom Italia Media unit (in which it has 78 per cent) after a buyout offer in shares which should be completed by the end of September. The boards of the two companies approved a plan that will see Telecom Italia offering 0.66 ordinary shares for each TI Media ordinary share […]

February 20, 2015From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Half price TV and free fibre with TalkTalk

TalkTalk customers can now take advantage of what it says is the best value fibre broadband on the market, free for 6 months and then £13.50 a month saving up to £177 compared to BT over 18 months. The offers run from February 20th until March 26th. Fibre Broadband is totally unlimited and will be […]

February 20, 2015

Orange: Q4 TV subs boost

Orange’s Q4 results show the telco has a total of 7.190 million IPTV and satellite customers across its operations, a 10.4 per cent year-on-year increase. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation will be in a range of €11.9 billion to €12.1 billion, a decrease of as much as 2.4 per cent from a year […]

February 17, 2015

upc cablecom reports solid 2014

upc cablecom sae its strongest growth ever in Internet connections in 2014, adding 65,600 new subscriptions across Switzerland. Revenue rose to CHF 1.294 billion over the twelve months of last year – a year-on-year increase of more than 4.6 per cent. More than 1.387 million TV customers in Switzerland used a digital TV product from […]

February 13, 2015

Broadband providers set to benefit from UK multiplay

Over 65 per cent of people in the UK who are signed up to a bundle of communications services, value their broadband access more than their pay-TV service, fixed-line phone or even their mobile phone service, according to findings from global technology analyst company CCS Insight. This puts broadband providers such as BT, Sky and […]

February 3, 2015By Colin Mann

Mobile, TV, fibre boost TalkTalk Q3

UK comms and entertainment provider TalkTalk has revealed its best ever results for mobile, TV and fibre. Between September and December, 115,000 more homes signed up to TalkTalk TV, 50,000 took mobile and 88,000 signed up to fibre. The number of overall broadband customers increased by 15,000, while the number of customers choosing to leave […]

February 3, 2015

BT plans ultrafast broadband

UK telco BT has revealed plans to transform the UK broadband landscape from superfast to ultrafast. The announcement came as BT reported its Q3 Results which showed it had added 45,000 TV customers and continued to grow its BT Sport residential and commercial customer bases. In just over a year since launch, 25,000 commercial premises […]

January 30, 2015By Colin Mann

Coalition urges EU to champion Open Internet

The EBU has signed an open letter alongside a broad coalition of digital stakeholders, urging the EU Council of Ministers to support strong and clear net neutrality rules in the Single Telecoms Market Proposal for a Regulation. Ahead of an informal dinner of EU Telecom Minister on the proposed Telecoms Single Market Regulation on January […]

January 20, 2015By Colin Mann

TalkTalk buys blinkbox and Tesco Broadband

UK quad-play operator TalkTalk has acquired the blinkbox Movies business and the Tesco broadband and fixed line voice base from UK supermarket retailer Tesco. The assets have been acquired free of debt and as a single transaction for cash. Reports emerged in early October 2014 that Tesco was planning to sell off or shut down […]

January 8, 2015By Colin Mann

ASA rules BT Sport ad misleading

BT has been hit by a ruling from the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) over an ad for its BT Sport pay-TV channels after Sky complained it had unclear information about a rise in cost. The ad, which ran on the BT Sport website, included an offer for free access to BT Sport via the Sky […]

January 8, 2015