BT has switched on Global Fabric, its new network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform and has been carrying out extensive live testing over the past few weeks. The first Global Fabric services will launch in early 2025. Global Fabric will make it easier and quicker for businesses to securely connect employees, customers and devices to apps and digital […]
UK telcos Vodafone and Three’s response to the UK Competitions and Markets Authority’s (CMA) Notice of Possible Remedies (Remedies Notice) has been published. The pair disagree with the CMA’s Provisional Findings, suggesting the merger will be pro-growth, pro-customer, pro-investment and pro-competitive for the UK. “It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform UK digital infrastructure with […]
BT Group has announced changes to its Strategy and Change and Digital units. Tom Meakin, who joined BT Group in April as interim Chief Strategy and Change Officer, will be appointed to the role permanently from November 1st. Meakin joined from McKinsey & Company where he was a senior partner leading its Consumer Tech and […]
With connectivity and technology being front and centre for the new College of Commissioners and with the Draghi report calling for a major policy reform in telecoms, trade body Connect Europe has unveiled its policy agenda ‘Europe’s Digital Choice’, which it describes as an “ambitious” plan proposing eight policy steps to build a more Connected, […]
Juniper Research, experts in telecommunications markets, has revealed a clear generational divide in the willingness of UK subscribers to adopt mobile operator value-added services, including music and video streaming, and home broadband. According to a survey of over 3,000 subscribers, the willingness to adopt these services varies significantly by age group: 16-29 years: 45 per […]
Liberty Broadband Corporation has communicated a counterproposal to the Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Charter Communications in response to an initial merger proposal sent by the Charter Special Committee. In its counterproposal, Liberty Broadband outlined the terms of a proposed combination of Liberty Broadband with Charter in an all-stock transaction intended to […]
The European Commission has approved the acquisition of Vodafone Italia by Swisscom under the foreign subsidies regulation in a deal worth €8 billion. Swisscom, the Switzerland-based telco, plans to merge Vodafone Italia with Fastweb, its subsidiary in Italy. “Swisscom has been operating successfully in Italy since the acquisition of Fastweb in 2007. Over this period, […]
The Portuguese Regulatory Authority for Social Communication (ERC) has greenlit Digi Portugal’s purchase of Cabonitel, the parent company of Nowo. This acquisition will indirectly grant Digi Portugal full ownership of Nowo, the country’s fourth largest telecommunications provider with a 5 per cent share and around 270,000 mobile network and around 130,000 fixed network customers. Nowo […]
The Italian Competition Authority (Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato) has opened an in-depth investigation (Phase II) to assess the acquisition of Vodafone Italia by Swisscom under Italy’s merger control rules. According to Swisscom, Phase II reviews are not uncommon in the telecommunications sector. Swisscom remains convinced that the transaction is pro-competitive. It says […]
RTL Deutschland and Vodafone will continue to bring RTL Deutschland’s content in streaming and linear TV to Vodafone’s 11 million+ TV customers. The partnership between the two companies has now been extended and will be expanded further in the future. To make it easier for Vodafone customers to access RTL Deutschland’s content and brands in […]