United Group, a telco and media company in Southeastern Europe, has successfully completed €1.5 billion in bond refinancing transactions, which it says significantly strengthens its capital structure and financial flexibility. Strong investor demand allowed the Group to upscale the new floating rate notes (FRNs) transaction to €1.13 billion, and also refinance its outstanding PIYC PIK […]
United Group, the telco and media company in Southeastern Europe, has successfully completed an offering of its euro-denominated notes maturing in January 2032 for a total principal amount of €400 million. The issue price of the notes was par, and the notes have a fixed rate coupon of 6.25 per cent per annum. The notes […]
United Group, a telco and media company in Southeastern Europe, has reported its financial results for the nine months ended September 30th: year-on-year growth in both revenue and adjusted EBITDAal. Following the sale of its Serbian assets earlier this year, the Group is now more clearly focused on its core EU operations and growth businesses […]
United Group has announced the launch of SkyShowtime on Vivacom in Bulgaria and on Telemach in Croatia and Slovenia. This new partnership brings SkyShowtime’s entertainment portfolio directly to United Group customers across the region, offering blockbuster movies, global hit series, and exclusive original programming. SkyShowtime is available immediately as an add-on with flexible subscription options […]
United Group, the telecommunications and media provider in Southeastern Europe, has announced the appointment of Dr Kim Kyllesbech Larsen as Chief Technology and Information Officer (CTIO), effective immediately. Larsen has held senior leadership roles at Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile and Ooredoo Group, where he led large-scale technology transformations, 5G deployments, and innovative network strategies. He served […]
United Group has rejected “false and misleading claims” that the Group is seeking to curtail or otherwise compromise the editorial independence of N1 and Nova TV channels in Serbia, or sell them to Telekom Srbija or entities linked to the Serbian state. “These allegations are false,” the SE European bluntly stated. The declaration comes after […]
Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company and independent provider of content protection and media and entertainment solutions, has announced that United Cloud, end-to-end solutions provider for telecoms and media, will continue to leverage Nagra NexGuard Forensic Watermarking within its antipiracy platform for their clients in seven European markets. By relying on Nagra NexGuard Forensic Watermarking as […]
United Fiber, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Group and the company behind the design and deployment of the SE European next-generation fibre infrastructure, has confirmed that construction of its new Athens–Thessaloniki underground route remains on schedule for completion in October 2025. Once built, it will be marketed by United Group International (UGI), United Group’s […]
Viasat World, the independent international media company, has announced that Viasat True Crime will launch on all platforms of United Group, the Southeastern European telco and media group. The channel will be available in Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Greece. Following the channel’s debut in Poland in 2024, Viasat True Crime went […]
United Group, the Southeastern European telco majority-owned by BC Partners, has reached an agreement to sell SBB doo Belgrade, a pay-TV, broadband and fixed telephone services provider in Serbia, to e& PPF Telecom. United Group has also agreed to sell Eon TV International (the holding company of the NetTV Plus business) and its sports broadcasting […]