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Sunrise Q3 revenue down 3.3% YoY

Swiss telco Sunrise said reported Q1 2025 revenues decreased by 3.3 per cent year-on-year to CHF 722 million (€768.7m)’ largely attributed to lower device sales and a wind down of promotional TV bundles. Sunrise recorded continued net customer growth in Q1 2025, with +12,000 mobile postpaid RGUs (revenue generating units) and +5,000 broadband Internet RGUs. […]

May 19, 2025

Deutsche Telekom raises guidance

Deutsche Telekom says it “remains on course for success” following strong Q1 figures, and has consequently raised its full year guidance. In the first quarter of 2025, total revenue increased by 6.5 per cent against the prior-year period to €29.8 billion. Service revenues grew by 6.3 per cent to €25.billion. Adjusted EBITDA AL grew 7.9 […]

May 15, 2025

Virgin Media O2, Daisy Group form new B2B company

Virgin Media O2 and Daisy Group have announced plans to merge their direct B2B operations to create a new force in the UK business communications and IT sector. With annual pro forma revenues of around £1.4 billion, the new entity, formed of substantially all of Virgin Media O2 Business and Daisy Group, will be consolidated […]

May 12, 2025

Telenor increases Q1 revenue

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 […]

May 6, 2025

Cerillion updates BSS/OSS suite

Cerillion, a provider of composable BSS/OSS solutions to the telecoms industry, has announced the launch of Cerillion 25.1, the new release of its pre-integrated BSS/OSS suite, which introduces a powerful, next-generation Promotions Engine designed to give communications services providers (CSPs) unprecedented agility in how they create, manage and scale personalised offers. Many CSPs face challenges […]

April 29, 2025

Telia reports “encouraging” Q1

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 […]

April 24, 2025

Tele2 Q1 boosted by Baltics

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 […]

April 23, 2025

Forecast: Telco capex to decline at 2% CAGR

According to a report from Dell’Oro Group, a source for market information about the telco, security, networks and data centre industries, telco operators scaled back wireless and wireline investments in 2024. The high-level relationship between carrier revenues, capex and telecom equipment was mostly stable, as both telecom capex and telecom equipment revenues tanked in 2024. […]

April 11, 2025

Actis-led consortium acquires Swiftnet

A consortium led by Actis, an investor in sustainable infrastructure, has completed the acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in Swiftnet, a telecom tower portfolio in South Africa. The Actis-led consortium, which includes international and local investors including the Mineworkers Investment Company (MIC), a 100 per cent black-owned broad-based South African investment holding company, […]

March 28, 2025

Virgin Media O2 launches UK complex customer support

Virgin Media O2 has created a new specialist team of more than 500 multiskilled and fully converged customer care agents to support UK customers with issues across both fixed (broadband, landline and TV) and mobile services. Comprised of around 250 new hires and 280 existing care agents who have received additional training, this new team […]

March 28, 2025