BT Group has officially reopened its Riverside Tower building at Lanyon Place, in the heart of Belfast, following a multi-million pound refurbishment. The refubished location will now be home to around 2,000 colleagues from BT Group, which includes EE, BT Business and Openreach. Belfast was named as a significant long-term location for BT Group in […]

Switzerland-based telco Salt has agreed a deal with SpaceX to provide continuous coverage through satellite technology. This agreement, claimed as the first of its kind in Europe, leverages SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation as much as Salt’s mobile network to connect Salt’s current and future mobile customers to Starlink satellites, providing them with enhanced connectivity and […]

Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a business of Cassava Technologies, has announced a new collaboration to deliver Internet access to 20 million underserved people in Africa by the end of 2025, with Microsoft. Working together through Microsoft’s Airband initiative, the new collaboration will initially target regions that include but are not limited to the Democratic Republic of […]

The activities of BT Group added £24 billion (€22.6bn) to the wider UK economy last year and supported nearly 300,000 jobs, according to a report from consultancy firm Hatch. The report looked at the spend of employees and suppliers of BT Group – which includes EE, BT, Plusnet and Openreach – and the estimated knock-on […]

Following the European Commission’s launch of a consultation on a proposal to make content companies pay government-mandated fees to broadband providers, science and technology policy think tank the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), has called for rejection of the plan. “The Internet ecosystem relies on negotiated agreements between broadband providers and content companies,” says […]

The European Commission has presented a set of actions aimed to make Gigabit connectivity available to all citizens and businesses across the EU by 2030, in line with the objectives of Europe’s Digital Decade, and to enable the transformation of the connectivity sector in the EU. The initiatives on Connectivity consist of: First, the Commission […]

Virgin Media O2 has announced changes to two of its main offices in the south of England with a multi-million-pound investment to create new UK headquarters in Paddington, London. The investment follows a review of its property portfolio which will see existing sites in both Hammersmith and Slough close by the end of 2024. Employees […]

Deutsche Telekom has reported that it is “on track” despite unsteady market conditions. The German telco group exceeded its guidance for 2022, which it raised multiple times throughout the year. Total revenue increased by 6.1 per cent compared with 2021 to €114.4 billion. Service revenue increased by 10.6 per cent to €91.9 billion. Adjusted EBITDA […]

Vodafone is to expand its European collaboration with Google within the Vodafone TV platform, mobile messaging and Pixel devices. The expanded agreement between the companies will enable Vodafone customers to access new messaging experiences through the adoption of Google Jibe Cloud to power Vodafone’s use of Rich Communications Services (RCS). The agreement will also introduce […]

Consumers are keen to use digital self-service channels when interacting with their communications service provider but are being held back by a ‘broken’ digital customer journey that often requires them to switch to a human agent, according to research from communications and media software and services provider Amdocs. Refocus, a survey of nearly 10,000 consumers […]