Nokia is to axe between 5,000 and 10,000 jobs globally in the next two years in a cost-cutting meaure. The Finnish telecoms giant will use the savings to play catch-up on 5G, and also plans to invest in cloud computing and digital infrastructure research. The company currently has 90,000 employees around the world, and has […]
Canadian multiplay telcos Rogers Communications and Shaw Communications have reached an agreement for Rogers to acquire all of Shaw’s issued and outstanding Class A Shares and Class B Shares in a transaction valued at approximately $26 billion (€21.8bn) inclusive of approximately $6 billion of Shaw debt. The offer price of $40.50 per share represents a […]
Spain’s three largest telco operators -Movistar, Vodafone and Orange- have entered into an alliance to bid for the European financial aids to extend 4G and 5G to rural areas in the country. The operators will submit a joint proposal to get the estimated €4.3 billion in public aids between 2021 and 2025 to deploy the […]
Mobile operators will begin bidding in the UK’s next spectrum auction from Friday March 12th, comms regulator Ofcom has confirmed. A total of 200 MHz of spectrum is being released through the auction, which will help improve existing mobile services and also support the continued rollout of 5G across the UK. After a pause in […]
A year on from the £1 billion (€1.17bn) Shared Rural Network (SRN) agreement being signed, wireless telecommunications infrastructure company Shared Access says it is ready to help mobile network operators increase 4G coverage in rural areas to meet government targets – and increase access to grassroots sport at the same time. As an independent owner […]
Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries has revealed during an analyst call that pursuing mobile deals in Europe was “high on our list” of priorities. Liberty already has about one million cable and 120,000 mobile subscribers in Ireland through its Virgin Media unit. In Poland, its UPC Poland operation has about 3.3 million video, internet and […]
EE will upgrade 4G in more than 500 areas in 2021 as part of the Shared Rural Network initiative to extend coverage in rural areas across the UK. SRN is a programme between the UK’s four mobile network operators and Government to extend 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK’s geography by the […]
A study from Juniper Research has found that the number of mobile video calling services reached 1.8 billion globally in 2020; rising from 1.2 billion in 2019. This represents a growth of 50 per cent over 12 months, as the Covid-19 pandemic fuelled the need for remote communication services. The study, Mobile Voice & Video […]
Virgin Mobile is giving all customers using one of their smartphones access to unlimited data. All customers in Ireland who have a data limit on their plan will now become unlimited and all those on unlimited plans will have the 80GB Fair Usage Policy removed. In 2020, Virgin Mobile customers relied on their smartphone plans […]
Multiplay telco BT Group is responsible for generating £1 (€1.14) in every £75 produced in the UK economy, according to an independent report, The Economic Impact of BT Group in the UK, by consultancy firm Hatch, which calculates that BT generated more than £24 billion in gross value added (GVA) during the last financial year. […]