Telecom Italia (TIM) is starting formal talks with the KKR fund on its €10.8 billion offer. KKR made an initial approach for TIM in November 2021. TIM has now said that it would start talks with KKR while simultaneously exploring its alternative of possible merger with state-backed broadband operator Open Fiber. TIM carries €29 billion […]
FTTH take-up is speeding up in Spain with the country reaching 12.8 million lines at the end of January 2022, up 70,229 in a month. The latest CNMC figures reveal that Movistar is the market leader with 4.9 million, representing 37.9 per cent of the total. In a year FTTH market increased by 1.2 million […]
Findings from Leichtman Research Group indicate that the largest cable and wireline phone providers in the US – representing about 96 per cent of the market – acquired about 2,950,000 net additional broadband Internet subscribers in 2021, compared to a pro forma gain of about 4,860,000 subscribers in 2020, and about 2,550,000 in 2019. These […]
CityFibre, the UK’s independent Full Fibre platform, has signed a strategic multi-year, multi-million-pound deal with STL, an integrator of digital networks. The partnership will see STL supply CityFibre with high fibre count Celesta Intelligently Bonded Ribbon [IBR] Cables with Stellar bend-insensitive fibre and ribbon optimised joint enclosures. CityFibre is on track with its £4 billion […]
Amidst mounting speculation regarding the possible sale of its pay-TV platform, Telefónica is reshaping the Movistar Plus convergent offer to include other services related to health, connected home and car security. The company will consequently drop the brand Movistar Fusion, according to financial newspaper El Economista, and will gather all the services – broadband, fixed […]
Orange has reported revenues up 0.8 per cent to to €42.5 billion for the full year 2021, driven by the solid performance of Africa & Middle East (+10.6 per cent) and a strong increase in equipment sales (+8.5 per cent). The Frenchl telco now has 11.8 million FTTH customers (+22.1 per cent) out of 56.5 […]
Reunion-based triple play fibre operator Zeop is launching a next-generation multi-screen television service, ZEOPTV. ZEOPTV offers an enhanced entertainment streaming experience to all fibre subscribers who can watch any live or on-demand content on any screen, whether on their iOS, Android or PC/MAC devices, and for the first time on the NetgemTV- powered platform also […]
UK digital infrastructure provider Openreach and network test, monitoring and assurance solutions provider VIAVI are collaborating to automate testing the quality and speed of the Openreach Full Fibre broadband network using Fusion, a virtual performance monitoring system. Fusion will effectively deliver an on-demand network ‘speedometer’, showing near real-time views of the speeds that end users […]
The UK Government has reaffirmed its intention to ensure that by 2030, the UK will have nationwide gigabit-capable broadband and 4G coverage, with 5G coverage for the majority of the population. The commitments are contained in a White Paper, Levelling Up the United Kingdom, which sets out the next stages in a programme to level […]
Australia’s Telstra is to invest up to A$1.6 billion (€1.01bn) to support new inter-city links within Australia and to provide links and capacity for Viasat’s satellite system. The telco said it expected to invest between A$1.4 billion and A$1.6 billion outside of its business-as-usual capital expenditure over the next five years. Telstra said one of […]