As Europe accelerates its path toward full gigabit connectivity, digital resilience, and secure infrastructure, Connect Europe has announced the expansion of its membership with the inclusion of Ukrtelecom, the national telecom operator of Ukraine, effective immediately. Ukrtelecom joins Connect Europe as a Full Member, following endorsement by the General Assembly of the association representing the […]
Connect Europe – the leading voice of European connectivity providers, representing 70 per cent of total sector investment – has urged European institutions to seize the crucial opportunity of the Digital Networks Act (DNA) to reignite Europe’s competitiveness. In its response to the EC’s Call for Evidence, the association emphasised that ambitious deregulation, bold simplification, […]
An economic study published by BT Group predicts that delivering a highly resilient, nationwide high-capacity mobile network could unlock up to £230 billion in economic benefits by 2035, as well as a broad range of social and environmental benefits for the UK. The report calls for UK Government to support accelerated mobile network deployment by […]
A study reveals that the telecom customer journey in the EU is significantly impacted by 34 distinct regulatory obligations stemming from nine sector-specific and 19 horizontal regulations. The study, prepared for Connect Europe by consulting firm Arthur D. Little, highlights the overly complex telecoms framework further complicating the achievement of Europe’s single market due to […]
The General Court of the European Union has ruled against Spain and telco Cellnex, upholding an EU decision that requires both the national government and regional authorities to recover €260 million in public funds granted to TV operators for rolling out DTT in remote areas. According to the Commission, the subsidies handed out between 2005 […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach has added a further 21 locations to its Full Fibre rollout – as part of a plan to reach up to five million more homes and businesses during the year to March 2026. The new locations will cover as many as 80,000 rural and urban premises across the country including; […]
Telco groups Vodafone Group Plc and CK Hutchison Group Telecom Holdings have confirmed that the merger of Vodafone UK and Three UK successfully completed on May 31st. The combined business, named VodafoneThree, is 51 per cent owned by Vodafone and 49 per cent by CKHGT. Vodafone will fully consolidate VodafoneThree in its financial results, and […]
The Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), the trade body representing India’s telcos, is reported to written to DoT Secretary Neeraj Mittal, arguing that Telecom Regulatory Authority of India’s (TRAI) recommendation that satellite spectrum be charged at 4 per cent of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) fails to ensure a level-playing field between satellite operators and […]
BT has reported full year revenues (to March 31st) of £20.4 billion (€24.2bn), down 2 per cent, mainly attributed to continued challenging trading conditions in Global and non-UK Portfolio channels and weaker handset trading in Consumer, offsetting the benefit of FTTP growth in Openreach and price increases. Adjusted UK service revenue was at £15.6 billion, […]
US telco giant AT&T has reached an agreement to acquire substantially all of Lumen’s Mass Markets fibre business for $5.75 billion (€5bn), subject to purchase price adjustments, in an all-cash transaction that it says will expand investment in critical US connectivity infrastructure, create new middle-class jobs, and accelerate high-speed fibre Internet access to millions of […]