ThinkCX Claims UK ISPs with Biggest Price Hikes Lost Most Market Share
Telecoms analysts at global market intelligence firm ThinkCX have today released the results from their latest market share report on the UK’s broadband ISP market, which claims to show that providers “with the biggest price hikes lost the most ground to rivals“. But the shifts are fairly small, and it may not be telling the […]
BT Group Confirm UK CEO Philip Jansen to Exit Within 12 Months
Broadband and phone giant BT Group (inc. Openreach, Plusnet and EE) has this morning announced that the operator’s current CEO, Philip Jansen, is to leave the business “at an appropriate moment over the next 12 months“. Since taking on the role in February 2019, the operator’s share price has fallen from around 230p to 122p. […]
Faulty Power Cables Damage Openreach Network in Malvern
An unspecified number of homes and businesses in the Worcestershire (England) town of Malvern have been hit by major disruption to their broadband ISP and phone connectivity, which has lasted for several days, after five of Openreach’s local cables were damaged. This has required extensive engineering work to fully repair. According to the Malvern Observer, […]
Broadband ISP Cerberus Networks Raises UK FTTP Prices
Business focused UK ISP Cerberus Networks has recently become the latest provider to increase the pricing of their broadband packages, which has seen a number of their more consumer grade and Openreach based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) tiers going up in price by around £3-£4 per month. For example, the provider’s 115Mbps “Cerberus FTTP Plus” package has […]
Telefónica sells majority share of Peruvian fibre network to KKR
News Telefónica has sold a 54% stake in its Peruvian network to US-based investment firm KKR and 10% to Entel Peru, retaining a 36% share In an effort to reduce debt and fund investment to build 5G mobile networks, Telefónica, one of Spanish America’s largest telecommunications firms, has recently made a sequence of asset sales in order to focus on its core businesses in Spain, the UK, Germany, and Brazil. As part of this move, in 2021 The El Salvador unit was sold to General International...
5G NTN-mobile market revenue to hit $18bn by 2031
News According to findings from global technology intelligence firm ABI Research, the non-terrestrial networks (NTN)–Mobile segment could exceed 200 million connections by 2031 Last year saw the completion of 3GPP’s Release-17, contained within which were various new specifications allowing NTN (primarily satellites) to serve both handheld mobile devices and the IoT. Since then, numerous firms like Apple, Huawei, ZTE, Qualcomm, Motorola, MediaTek, Bullitt, Globalstar, Inmarsat, and Iridium...
China Mobile Ningbo Leads The Way in Building 5G Infrastructure For Business Growth
VIEWPOINT A crucial economic hub south of the Yangtze River Delta, Ningbo is successfully transitioning from an industrial hub to an intelligent and smart manufacturing center. Ningbo is a thriving economic hub with 83 manufacturing championships and 283 Specialized, Refined, Differential and Innovative (SRDI) enterprises. As many as 20 advanced 5G capabilities were first put into commercial use at Ningbo. The city created history when China’s first 5G fully conected factory corps was set up...
Quickline FTTP Broadband Goes Live in 3 North Lincolnshire Villages
Alternative network ISP Quickline, which is rolling out their gigabit speed full fibre (FTTP) broadband infrastructure to 96 rural locations (55,000 premises) across Yorkshire and Lincolnshire in England, has today announced that their service has started to go live across Tetney, Kirton and Barnetby le Wold in North Lincolnshire. Almost 4,500 households across Tetney, in […]
Decoupling, De-risking and Other Dangerous Word Games
VIEWPOINT Written by Simon Lacey | Senior Lecturer in International Trade | University of Adelaide[1] Recent efforts by the European Commission to deny Chinese telecom equipment vendors access to EU markets lays bare the façade of any distinction between U.S. calls for decoupling and European notions of de-risking. These efforts have also spurred some pushback, not only from the equipment vendors themselves – primarily Huawei – and the Chinese government, but also from European telecom...
Jorge Álvarez appointed as new CEO of the Retelit Group
Press Release Change at the helm of Retelit: Jorge Álvarez will lead the company in a new phase of growth and market consolidation Retelit, Italy’s largest telecommunications player focused on the B2B market, announces the appointment of Jorge Álvarez as Chief Executive Officer and General Manager, succeeding Federico Protto, who remains temporarily at the Group, supporting the Board of Directors, to ensure due continuity in the transition. The new CEO will seek to lead the Group into a new...