India’s competing telcos spent more than $19 billion (€18.7bn) in the government auction of 5G spectrum. Reliance Jio Infocomm, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea have spent seven days competing with each other to make the majority of the acquisitions, purchasing 71 per cent of all offered spectrum, which the government said totally exceeded its expectations. […]
The US’s Federal Communications Commission has opened bidding in its latest mid-band spectrum auction to support next generation wireless services – including 5G. Auction 108 makes available 8,017 new flexible-use, county-based overlay licences in the 2.5 GHz band. These licences are in areas with unassigned 2.5 GHz spectrum—mostly rural parts of the country—following disposition of […]
Converged broadband, video and mobile communications services company Liberty Global has announced its Q2 2022 financial results. CEO Mike Fries stated, “Despite an increasingly difficult macroeconomic environment developing throughout the second quarter, demand for connectivity remains high and we are well positioned to execute on our strategic and financial goals. In each of our core […]
US consumers looking to cut costs amid soaring inflation could ditch cable video services in even larger droves, even as they migrate over to discounted cable wireless offerings, according to Sydney Price and Darakhshan Nazir, analysts at Kagan, a media research group within S&P Global Market Intelligence. Traditional video has been on a rapid decline […]
Virgin Media O2, the mass media telco, has reported its Q2 earnings. Lutz Schüler, CEO of Virgin Media O2, said: “It’s one year on since Virgin Media O2 was born and, while we’ve got much more to do, we came out of the gate running and achieved a huge amount in our first year as […]
EE has been named the UK’s best network for the ninth year running. After independent, UK wide tests by RootMetrics, EE came first or joint first across all seven RootScore Awards – reliability, speed, data, call, text, accessibility and overall performance. EE announced earlier this year that its 5G network was the first to pass […]
Universities and telecoms firms have been invited to apply for up to £25 million (€29.5m) to research and develop the next generation of 5G and 6G network equipment as part of new UK government plans to unleash innovation in the sector. The Future Open Networks Research Challenge will enable academics and the industry to conduct […]
As more than nine in 10 low income Brits say they’re worried about their finances, and 85 per cent say connectivity is essential for living their lives, Virgin Media O2 is donating an extra 15 million GB of free data to the National Databank to help people in need stay connected. Those most affected by […]
Following the period of exclusive negotiations that began on March 8th, telcos Orange and MásMóvil have signed a binding agreement to combine their businesses in Spain. The transaction is based on an enterprise value of €18.6 billion, €7.8 billion for Orange Spain and €10.9 billion for MásMóvil. The transaction is subject to approval from antitrust […]
Gogo Business Aviation, which supplies airline connectivity to business aircraft, has completed the build at its 75th 5G site in the US. Gogo says this is halfway to its target overall 5G network, and that its 5G system remains on budget and on schedule to launch in the second half of 2022. “Getting to the […]