CityFibre, the UK’s independent Full Fibre platform and carrier-neutral operator, has announced a further equity commitment of £300 million (€360m) from its existing shareholder, Mubadala Investment Company. This equity investment will support CityFibre’s accelerated growth plans and enable participation in Building Digital UK’s (BDUK) ‘Project Gigabit’ rural programme. Under the infrastructure vertical of the UAE–UK […]
ANGA COM has released its agenda for the strategy panels of the conference programme. The Exhibition and Conference for Broadband, Television & Online will take place in Cologne/Germany from 10 to 12 May 2022. Highlights of the strategy programme are five summit discussions:Digitalization Summit “Networks, Services, Connectivity: How do we create a digital Boost?“ with […]
Telcos Orange and MásMóvil have confirmed they are in exclusive discussions to combine their businesses in Spain. The combination would take the form of a 50-50 Joint Venture, co-controlled by Orange and MásMóvil (LORCA JVCO) with a combined enterprise valuation of €19.6 billion. Valuations are attractive for both businesses, with Orange Spain’s enterprise value at […]
Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) users of Smart Axiata in Cambodia has increased significantly with total registered subscribers exceeding 100K+ in 2021 and its service is now available in 20+ provinces. One of the contributing factors to this growth in subscriber base is the FWA Suite from Huawei, the industry’s first intelligent solution that enables end-to-end […]
Deutsche Telekom increased its financial figures in 2021. The Group’s total revenue grew by 7.7 per cent in the 2021 financial year to €108.8 billion, with service revenues increasing by 6.5 per cent to €84.1 billion. Adjusted EBITDA AL rose by 6.6 percent year-on-year to €37.3 billion. Based on constant exchange rates, i.e., those used […]
Orange has reported revenues up 0.8 per cent to to €42.5 billion for the full year 2021, driven by the solid performance of Africa & Middle East (+10.6 per cent) and a strong increase in equipment sales (+8.5 per cent). The Frenchl telco now has 11.8 million FTTH customers (+22.1 per cent) out of 56.5 […]
Nrby, a specialist in dynamic location intelligence for service provider operations, has partnered with Advanced Media Technologies to deploy the Nrby location intelligence platform in Blue Ridge Communications systems. Blue Ridge is leveraging the Nrby platform to optimise performance and customer satisfaction by using SmartPin technology to provide unparalleled visibility into maintenance needs and potential […]
Technetix has announced the appointment of Robert Bell as Chief Financial Officer of Technetix Group. Technetix’ current CFO, Andrew Kellett is retiring from the company and will leave the business at the end of March 2022 to pursue a plural career. Bell will take up his post as CFO taking over from Andrew on 9th February. […]
Australia’s Telstra is to invest up to A$1.6 billion (€1.01bn) to support new inter-city links within Australia and to provide links and capacity for Viasat’s satellite system. The telco said it expected to invest between A$1.4 billion and A$1.6 billion outside of its business-as-usual capital expenditure over the next five years. Telstra said one of […]
Sky Broadband has launched its value fibre broadband package, Superfast 35, with guaranteed speeds of 25 Mb/s – or a month’s moneys back. The service is aimed at smaller households with fewer connected devices, and Sky says it is ideal for streaming, browsing and music downloads. Available to the majority of the UK (96 per cent) […]