Virgin Media O2 has reported that Q2 revenue fell 7.9 per cent year-on-year on an adjusted basis to £2.4 billion (€2.8bn), while total service revenue was down 3.9 per cent to £2.04 billion. Consumer revenue was down 5 per cent, with consumer fixed service revenue falling 6.2 per cent and consumer mobile service revenue down […]
Charter, the US telco, lost 172,000 Internet customers in Q2 2026, compared with 117,000 Internet subscribers shed during the year-earlier period amid stiff competition from fixed wireless and fibre connection services. Charter narrowed its loss of TV customers to 21,000, against 80,000 TV customers dropped in the same period of 2025, as subscribers did more […]
AT&T CEO John Stankey says he remains a fan of satellite operator AST SpaceMobile and does not think that AST’s success will impact his own firm’s revenue. Stankey said that any suggestion that a direct-to-device satellite operator would take a material market share of his revenues as being “ridiculous”. In July 22 comments during the […]
Netscout, a provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity, and DDoS attack protection solutions, has announced continued investments in infrastructure and technology to double its Arbor Cloud DDoS attack mitigation capacity to 33 Tbps, which is aimed at keeping critical digital services available during DDoS attacks, protecting revenue-generating digital operations, supporting always-on AI-driven businesses, and maintaining customer trust. Netscout […]
In the quarter from January to March (Q1 2026), complaints to Ofcom on fixed broadband, pay-monthly mobile and pay-TV services decreased compared to the previous quarter (Q4 2025: October to December 2025). Complaints about fixed broadband and pay-monthly mobile decreased and complaints about landline and pay-TV stayed the same. Following the increase in complaints in […]
BT has reported Q1 revenue of £4.3 billion (€5bn), flat year-on-year. Adjusted UK service revenue £3.8 billion down 1 per cent, as growth in broadband and Corporate and Public Sector in Business and customer base growth in Consumer were offset by declines in voice. The telco’s FTTP footprint increased to 23.4 million, an increase of […]
Parks Associates and Plume have released research that details the shift in broadband competition in the US as providers need to deliver a superior customer experience based on reliability, proactive management, and personalisation. As gigabit speeds become more common, surpassing 25 per cent penetration acrss the US, broadband providers can no longer compete on speed […]
Continuing a three-year trend of record-breaking percentage growth, broadband upstream usage increased almost 20 per cent year-over-year in Q2 2026, according to the latest OpenVault Broadband Insights (OVBI) report. In the the quarterly report, titled Upstream Ascending, OpenVault research shows that upstream consumption grew at a rate of 19.2 per cent in Q2, following increases […]
Virgin Media O2 is committing to invest in nature recovery programmes across the UK after joining the Media In Service of Nature movement. The operator has become a strategic partner of the initiative, which encourages the media industry to put a minimum of 0.1 per cent of their marketing and campaign spend towards projects which […]
Russian company Bureau 1440 has launched a second batch of communications satellites into orbit for Rassvet, Russia’s satellite internet project. On July 21st, it emerged that the project now has 40 satellites in orbit. According to the company, the satellites successfully separated from the launch vehicle and established contact with Mission Control. After completing post-launch […]