Liberty Global has entered into a definitive agreement with Vodafone Group to acquire Vodafone’s 50 per cent shareholding in their Dutch telecommunications joint venture, VodafoneZiggo. Under the terms of the agreement, Vodafone will receive €1.0 billion in cash and a 10 per cent stake in a new Benelux company to be named Ziggo Group which […]

Ofcom has  approved Telefónica UK’s (VMO2) request to vary its licence to allow it to provide satellite connectivity to standard smartphones in the UK. This is the first licence variation of its kind to be approved by Ofcom. The media regulator has also made the final regulations to support the rollout of new services powered […]

Movistar Plus has secured a significant legal victory in its battle against audiovisual piracy after a Spanish court convicted a Telegram user for illegally distributing streams of the platform, including live football matches. The Court found the defendant – who operated on Telegram, a cloud-based instant messaging app, under the aliases ‘El ingeniero verde’ and […]

European telco giants Telefónica and Liberty Global, the joint owners of Virgin Media O2, have partnered with private equity firm InfraVia Capital to acquire alternative full fibre broadband network Netomnia, according to FT. The deal, valued at £2 billion (€2.3bn), would combine Netomnia’s fibre build with nexfibre’s footprint and parts of Virgin Media O2, creating […]

Luxembourg-based OQ Technology, which specialises in supplying 5G and NTN satellite technology, used CES in Las Vegas to announce an agreement with Monogoto, a provider of cloud-based hybrid connectivity. The strategic partnership adds OQ’s Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to Monogoto’s existing hybrid ecosystem, which already includes partnerships with GEO satellite networks, and creates […]

Telefónica’s management has signed a redundancy agreement with the main trade unions — UGT, CC OO and Fetico-Sumados — covering seven of the Spanish group’s subsidiaries. The deal, signed today [December 22nd], will lead to a minimum of 4,525 job losses, although the company expects the final figure to rise to around 5,500. The minimum […]

Spain’s top-flight football league La Liga has confirmed the allocation of its domestic broadcasting rights to Telefónica and DAZN for a combined €5.25 billion, securing coverage of Spain’s top-tier football competition from the 2027/28 season through to 2031/32. The agreement, equivalent to €1.05 billion per campaign, was formalised November 28th during a tender process overseen […]

Significant job cuts have been announced at both Mediapro and Telefónica in Spain. Telefónica is preparing to shed more than 6,000 employees across seven of its subsidiaries — including Telefónica de España, Telefónica Móviles, Telefónica Soluciones, Movistar+, Telefónica S.A., and Telefónica Global Solutions — as negotiations begin on a series of redundancy plans. The proposed […]

Telefónica and Vodafone España have finalised the sale of a 30 per cent stake in their joint fibre-optic venture, Fiberpass, to AXA Investment Management, in a deal that values the company at around €1.5 billion including debt. The French infrastructure group is expected to contribute approximately €450 million as part of the transaction. With the […]