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ThinkAnalytics 2021 revenue up 20%

ThinkAnalytics, a global provider of cloud-based personalised content discovery, viewer insight, and targeted advertising solutions, has reported overall revenue growth of 20 per cent year on year. Significantly, four major new customer signings in North America, as well as others in Europe and Asia Pacific, will bring the total number of subscribers served by ThinkAnalytics […]

January 27, 2022

BT favoured by Bank

It is a busy week for company results with one analyst describing this coming November 4th as “Super Thursday” given that BT and SES both announce their results with Liberty Global’s results being revealed the evening before. Analysts at investment bank Jefferies, focusing on UK telco BT’s results, has issued a ‘BUY’ recommendation to clients. […]

November 2, 2021

Juniper Networks selected by UPC Poland

Juniper Networks, a specialist in secure, AI-driven networks, has been selected by UPC Poland, Liberty Global’s largest revenue-generating operation in Central and Eastern Europe, to provide a 400G-ready network to power UPC Poland’s international core infrastructure. UPC Poland’s network provides broadband internet, digital television, mobile and digital telephony (VoIP) services to millions of consumers and a […]

October 25, 2021

Analysis: OTT driving slow growth in operators’ revenue

Analysis from research firm Dataxis suggests the pay-TV market in Europe is expected to recover slowly from the blow it suffered during the pandemic, with the growing availability of cheaper and more flexible OTT pay-TV plans pushing historic operators into adopting new strategies. According to Ophélie Boucaud, Analyst, despite an unchallenged domination in terms of […]

October 14, 2021

Bank: Liberty Global rated ‘BUY’

Investment analysts at Jefferies have looked at Liberty Global and adjusted its model for the company – taking into account recent news from Poland, Switzerland and the UK – and rates the company a ‘BUY’. The bank states: “We update estimates, mostly for the shift of Poland into discontinued operations from 3Q21s onwards. On an […]

October 14, 2021By Chris Forrester

Liberty Global selects CommScope HD Shelf

CommScope has announced that Liberty Global has selected its High-Density R-PHY Shelf as a key component of its next-generation global gigabit broadband network. The HD Shelf will enable Liberty Global to push fibre deeper into its HFC network and realise the efficiencies associated with Distributed Access Architectures (DAA). The HD Shelf will enable Liberty Global […]

October 8, 2021

Liberty in German FTTH JV

Liberty Global Ventures, the investment arm of Liberty, and InfraVia Capital Partners, an independent private equity firm specialised in infrastructure and technology investments, have set up a new Joint Venture (JV) aimed at assessing the opportunity in building fibre-to-the-home networks in Germany. The 50:50 JV, which is subject to regulatory approval, sees the two companies […]

September 27, 2021By Colin Mann

Bank ups Liberty Global rating to ‘BUY’

Analysts at investment bank Berenberg, while admitting that the John Malone-controlled suite of businesses under the Liberty Global banner represents a “complex case” to analyse, nevertheless – and it says with its eyes wide open – believes that Liberty’s prospects are solid. Berenberg is raising its advice on Liberty Global to ‘BUY’ (from ‘HOLD’) and […]

September 24, 2021

Liberty Global sells UPC Poland to iliad

Liberty Global has reached a definitive agreement to sell 100 per cent of its operations in Poland to iliad’s Polish mobile subsidiary Play. At June 30th 2021, Liberty Global’s networks in Poland passed 3.7 million homes and served 1.5 million customers who subscribed to 1.3 million broadband, 1.4 million video, and over 600,000 telephony services. […]

September 22, 2021

Liberty Global upgrades WiFi services in Poland, Netherlands

Nearly three million Liberty Global customers in Poland and the Netherlands are to receive a free upgrade to the Intelligent WiFi services, providing them with the fastest and most stable connections for all their devices. The upgraded services are being rolled out in partnership with the SaaS experience platform provider, Plume. Liberty Global has invested […]

August 24, 2021