UPC Q1 revenues up 7.5%
UPC, the Swiss cable operator, reported it achieved above-average growth in the business customer segment once again in the first quarter of 2018 (+12.6 per cent revenue growth compared with…
Discovery reports “historic and pivotal” Q1
Discovery has reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31st 2018. “The first quarter of 2018 was a historic and pivotal period for Discovery. We closed on our transaction…
DISH sheds 94,000 pay-TV subs in Q1
US DTH broadcaster DISH Network has reported revenue totalling $3.46 billion for the quarter ending March 31st 2018, compared to $3.68 billion for the corresponding period in 2017. Subscriber-related revenue…
Euskaltel increases profits and subs
Euskaltel, the regional Basque country-based cable operator, is consolidating its leadership in the north of Spain with a 10.9 per cent rise in profits to €14.6 million and in Q1…
Snapchat redesign sees shares plummet
Shares in Snap, Snapchat’s parent firm, dropped 17 per cent after it revealed the app’s unpopular redesign made it less attractive to current and potential users. Only four million new…
Intelsat soars 42% on FCC decision
Intelsat had a reasonable set of results on May 1st, but it was a decision by the FCC to examine how its C-band spectrum might be utilised by the upcoming…
Apple reports record Q2
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2018 second quarter ended March 31st 2018. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $61.1 billion (€50.9m), an increase of 16 per cent…
Swisscom “solid Q1 in difficult environment”
Swisscom’s, the dominant Swiss telco, has reported that consolidated Q1 net revenue was up 1.9 per cent on the previous year at CHF 2.8 million (€2.4m), while at constant currencies…
Intelsat revenues up 1%
Back on January 1st Intelsat adopted the ASC 606 accounting rules* which make absolute like-for-like comparisons with 2016’s numbers slightly difficult. This year’s Q1 numbers saw total revenue of $544…
SES Q1 receives market approval
Last week’s Q1 results from satellite operator SES were encouraging and more or less on the nose in terms of expectations, but there’s a huge caveat. New CEO Steve Collar…