Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions, has announced a global partnership with UK-based Bango, a specilaist in subscription bundling, to empower telecommunications service providers to build scalable multi-service offers that create more consumer propositions. By leveraging the Digital Vending Machine (DVM) from Bango through the […]

UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 163 new exchange locations, covering a record number of 1.6 million premises across the nation, where the business plans to halt the sale of traditional copper-based phone and broadband services to encourage people to upgrade to new digital services over an ultrafast Full Fibre connection. The […]

Telenor Group has reported that it increased Q1 revenues “during a quarter of global economic instability due to fast-changing tariffs and geopolitical turmoil”. This unpredictability has also created new business opportunities for the Nordics telco. First quarter highlights include: Service revenues of NOK 16.1 billion (€1.3bn) Adjusted EBITDA of NOK 8.6 billion Free cash flow […]

Charter Communications, the US telco and mass media company, has reported that it slowed losses of pay-TV customers in Q1. The company, led by president and CEO Chris Winfrey, shed another 167,000 residential video customers during the quarter, compared to a year-earlier decline of 392,000. Charter had 12.7 million pay TV subscribers at the end […]

Orange has reported that Q1 2025 revenues reached €9.9 billion, up 0.6 per cent year on year (+€62 million) attributed to growth in retail services (+2.4 per cent or +€181 million) and a smaller decline in wholesale services (-3.1 per cent or -€44 million). Equipment sales were 5.7 per cent lower (-€38 million) and other […]

AST SpaceMobile (AST) activated one of its first BlueBird satellites over Japan in order to make a video call with staff from cellular telco Rakuten, its partner operator in Japan. Abel Avellan, CEO at AST, commented: “Another historic first! We completed our initial activation of our first BlueBird satellites in Japan with Rakuten Mobile to […]

Telia, the Swedish multinational telco, has reported that Q1 revenue increased 3.5 per cent to SEK 20.03 billion (€1.83bn) and like for like, revenue increased 3.3 per cent. Service revenue increased 1.9 per cent to SEK 17.03 billion and like for like, service revenue increased 1.8 per cent. Operating income increased 36.4 per cent to […]

Tele2, the Sweden-based multinational telco, has published its consolidated results for the first quarter 2025. The telco reported end-user service revenue of SEK 5.4 billion (€0.49bn), up 1 per cent organically compared to Q1 2024 driven by the Baltics. Total revenue of SEK 7.2 billion remained unchanged organically compared to Q1 2024. Further Q1 highlights […]

Global consumer media usage, including digital and traditional media channels, increased 2.4 per cent in 2024 to an average of 57.2 hours per week, following a sharp deceleration in time spent with media growth in 2023, according to a market intelligence report from media econometrics specialist PQ Media. Growth in consumer media usage, including all […]

German antitrust body the Bundeskartellamt has sent Vodafone Group, Vodafone GmbH and Vantage Towers AG its preliminary legal assessment relating to the shortcomings in providing antenna sites to 1&1. Previously in 2021, Vodafone’s group company Vantage Towers had contractually agreed to provide the sites. However, massive delays have occurred since then. Vodafone and Vantage Towers […]