Adam Crozier, former chief executive of Royal Mail and ITV, has emerged as the favourite to take over as the new Chairman of UK multiplay telco BT. Current Chairman Jan du Plessis announced his resignation in March 2021, reportedly after a personality clash with Chief Executive Philip Jansen, and is expected to leave by December […]
The Spanish Court, Audiencia Nacional, has rejected appeals from Telefónica, Vodafone and Orange against the RTVE tax refusing to return the €1.6 billion paid by them since 2010. The refusal is a new setback to the operators which also saw their appeals rejected by the Constitutional Court and the European Court of Justice. The operators […]
Millions of people in rural England will get access to the fastest broadband speeds on the market as part of a £5 billion (€5.8bn) plan to level up Internet access across the UK. The UK government’s Project Gigabit fund to upgrade digital infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas will accelerate the country’s recovery from covid, fire up […]
Liberty Global, the multinational telco, has announced its Q2 2021 financial results. The company posted a quarterly revenue of $3.1 billion (€2.6bn) – an increase of 14.1 per cent year-on-year on a reported basis, and 3.4 per cent on a rebased basis. Despite the rises in revenues and profits, Liberty Global’s overall subscriber growth slowed […]
Philip Jansen, BT’s Chief Executive, has declared that the telco is on a path to growth. Commenting on the company’s Q1 results, he reported that operational performance remained strong, with EBITDA growing during the first three months of the year, reflecting improved trading across most of its business and the positive benefits of plans to […]
Telefónica has posted a record net income of €7.7 billion in the second quarter of 2021. The Spanish multinational telco says this “historic figure” is the result of capital gains on the merger of O2 and Virgin Media in the UK and on the sale of the Telxius tower business. Both transactions are two of […]
With accelerating business demand for high-speed broadband and presence in the cloud, enterprise technology platform Lumen Technologies has expanded its fibre network infrastructure in Europe, strengthening its service capabilities in France, Switzerland and Spain. These strategic network expansions put high-performance fibre closer to end users to deliver faster connections, lower latency and enhanced security, for […]
Research from UK multiplay telco Virgin Media O2 has revealed that the majority (70 per cent) of house-hunters would be prepared to walk away from their preferred home, or not make an offer at all, if its mobile connectivity isn’t up to scratch. Good broadband connectivity is also crucial, with 35 per cent of Brits […]
Trade body the 25GS-PON MSA Group, which brings together major operators along with leading system and component vendors to promote and accelerate the development and deployment of 25 Gigabit Symmetrical Passive Optical Network (25GS-PON) technology, has added 17 new member organisations, including service providers Proximus, OptiComm, and INEA, as well as CableLabs, the cable industry’s […]
Personalised smart services specialist Plume has released data and insights into smart home trends resulting from increases in the number of devices, types of devices, hours used and data used across smart homes. This comes as it surpasses what it says is a major milestone: more than 1 billion unique client devices have been managed […]