Despite a nine per cent cut in its €10 billion revenues, Telefónica managed to increase its operating profit by 118.3 per cnt to €886 million in the first quarter of the year versus the same period last year. The Spanish telco also reached 25.7 million FTTH connections in the country, up 432,000 year-on-year, and 137.1 […]
More than one in five UK homes can now access faster, full-fibre broadband, according to new figures published by comms regulator Ofcom. Ofcom’s latest Connected Nations data highlights broadband and mobile coverage across the UK and its nations. As of January 2021, around six million UK homes (21 per cent) could get full-fibre broadband – […]
Increasing the speed of roll-out of fibre broadband across member states is a vital component to drive a greener, more competitive economy as Europe gears up for a post pandemic recovery, according to Michel Van Bellinghen, Chairman 2021 of BEREC (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications). Delivering a keynote speech during the online ‘A […]
As part of its programme to upgrade the UK’s analogue phone network to new digital products, network infrastructure provider Openreach has announced a further 77 exchange locations – covering around 700,000 homes and businesses – where it plans to stop selling copper-based services in 12 months’ time (coming into effect on April 29th, 2022). These are […]
In a move to boost 5G, the Spanish government is set reduce the RTVE tax that telco operators pay annually, and will cut the initial pricing set in the 5G public auction to take place later this month (or June latest). The deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño, laid out these measures […]
According to US multiplay telco Comcast, video was the number one traffic driver for its Internet customers in 2020, accounting for 71 per cent of all downstream traffic over its network, a growth of 70 per cent from 2019. In analysing how its customers consumed video and entertainment in 2020, the biggest takeaway was that […]
US multiplay telco Verizon is continuing to prepare for 5G Ultra Wideband expansion across its newly-acquired national footprint of C-band spectrum. In a recent lab trial, Verizon worked with Ericsson and MediaTek to aggregate C-band spectrum with mmWave spectrum, achieving speeds of 4.3 Gbps in the trial. “The depth of our spectrum portfolio, now the […]
BT has revealed it will launch BT Home Essentials in June, a social tariff connecting those on low income with affordable fibre broadband and calls. The new low cost tariff comes as BT research reveals that since the pandemic, almost three quarters (74 per cent) of Brits would not find it easy to improve their […]
The Euskaltel Group – comprising the Euskaltel, R, Telecable and Virgin telco brands – has published its Q1 2021 results, which consolidate growth in its key operating indicators, with a significant increase in the Group’s customer base, exceeding the record figures seen in recent quarters, and with revenue growth of 1.4 per cent compared to […]
Video software provider Synamedia has unveiled Synamedia Gravity, describing it as an industry-first managed service that makes it easier for operators and service providers to offer their small to medium business (SMB) and residential customers a richer suite of advanced broadband and video capabilities. It comprises pre-integrated applications and advanced services for Wi-Fi, routing and […]