Data from research firm Point Topic indicate that the collective efforts of altnets and challenger ISPs could see nearly 1 million additional broadband customers using an altnet or challenger ISP by the end of 2025, increasing market share from 12 per cent currently to 14.5 per cent or 3.75 million customers. The data, commissioned by […]
Multiplay operator Com Hem’s 1.7 million Swedish households are joining the Tele2 family as two of Sweden’s strongest brands, Tele2 and Com Hem, combine into one. Tele2 customers now have access to nationwide mobile connectivity, upgraded broadband and Sweden’s largest entertainment offering – all available from the first climate neutral operator in the Nordics and […]
Having received provisional clearance by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the proposed merger of Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media and Telefónica-owned O2 will bring together one of the UK’s four nationwide mobile networks and the UK’s only DOCSIS cable broadband network. According to Gary Barton, a Principal Analyst at data and analytics company GlobalData, […]
Telia company, the Nordics telco, has reported its Q1 results. Net sales declined 2.7 per cent to SEK 21,814 million (€21.m) and like for like, net sales remained unchanged. Service revenues decreased 4.9 per cent to SEK 18,747 million and like for like, service revenues declined 2.3 per cent. The outlook for 2021 remains unchanged. […]
According to research from trade body USTelecom | The Broadband Association, which brings together connectivity providers and technology innovators, the US leads the European Union (EU) in broadband deployment and adoption, while outpacing Europe on key investment and competition measurements as well. The study, US vs. EU Broadband Trends (2012-2019), debunks a persistent myth that […]
Tough market competition, along with low cost offers and promotions, have driven Orange Spain to experience a 7.4 per cent fall in its revenues to €1.1 billion in the first quarter of the year. In retail services, the fall was even worse, with a 10.2 per cent decline to €818 million. ARPU in convergent packages […]
Millicom, now an independent business but formerly backed by Kinnevik and still headquartered in Luxembourg, has disposed of its African businesses and is now wholly focused on its Latin American investments. Millicom, in its statement, said that it has agreed to sell its entire operations in Tanzania to a consortium led by Axian, a Madagascar […]
Shifting user demand and cost considerations mean triple-play offers now only represent about a third of service bundles marketed online by cable companies and telecom providers, which are increasingly shifting their focus to double-play bundles. Additionally, Internet connectivity is now the core feature of the bundles being offered, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. […]
The UK’s Competitions and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed merger of Virgin Media and Virgin Mobile with O2. Both Virgin and O2 provide certain wholesale services to other mobile network operators in the UK, as well as retail services to consumers. The CMA was clear at the outset of its in-depth inquiry […]
In what the pair describe as a landmark transaction, Grupo Televisa and Univision Holdings have announced a definitive transaction agreement in which Televisa’s content and media assets will be combined with Univision to create the largest Spanish-language media company in the world: Televisa-Univision. The combination brings together the two leading media businesses in the two […]