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Internet provider TalkTalk has recently become the latest UK ISP to jump on the bandwagon of ‘Black Friday‘ offers, which among other things includes a sharp price reduction across their various Openreach based Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) packages. For example, their top 900Mbps tier is now just £42 per month (or £36 on Cityfibre). As usual all […]

VIEWPOINT [Bangkok, Thailand] Recently, Phila Dube, Chief Commercial Officer of Openserve, Telkom SA, delivered a keynote speech titled “Enabling a Connected Experience” at the 8th Ultra-Broadband Forum (UBBF 2022) and introduced Openserve’s practices in ensuring network connectivity and improving user experience. As a subsidiary of Telkom SA, Openserve is the largest telecom infrastructure provider in South Africa. It owns the largest fixed broadband network in the nation and is committed to...

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A number of mobile network operators – including iD Mobile, Three UK, Lyca Mobile, Sky Mobile and Talkmobile – have just announced a shotgun blast of Black Friday discounts on their various mobile plans and handset bundles. We’ve summarised some of these in this article. We’ll start with iD Mobile, which has added extra data […]

Mobile network operator EE (BT) has today become only the second such provider after VOXI (Vodafone) to launch a low-cost social tariff – EE Basics – for mobile customers on Universal Credit and a range of other means-tested benefits. But some commercial 4G and 5G plans from rivals will give you more for your money. […]

News Portugal’s National Communications Authority (Anacom) has issued punitive fines to the country’s four national mobile network operators due to their poor communication regarding price increases This week, Anacom has issued over €15 million in fines to Meo (Altice Portugal), Nos, Vodafone, and Nowo, saying that they did not clearly communicate to customers that they could terminate their contracts before price increases were applied back in 2016. The regulator said that the changes in...

News The operator cited the macroeconomic environment as the main driver for this strategic shift, including inflation rates and the soaring cost of energy This week, UK-based operator group Vodafone have announced their latest financial results, cutting its cashflow forecast by around €200 million and lowering its earning guidance from €15–15.5 billion to €15–15.2 billion. These lacklustre results came as a result of numerous business units underperforming, from tough competition in Spain and...

INTERVIEW We had the pleasure of interviewing Malte Abel, Head of Regulatory Telecoms, Vodafone ahead of Connected Germany 2022 which is being held in Mainz on December 6-7 2022. Can you introduce yourself and your role? My name is Malte Abel. I am heading the Regulatory Telecoms at Vodafone in Dusseldorf. Before joining Vodafone in March 2021, I spent several years in the energy industry in various regulatory and legal positions. In Regulatory Telecoms we are dealing with the framework for...

News The prosecution authority found no evidence that Ericsson staff had issued bribes and have thus closed the investigation Despite Ericsson’s best efforts, in recent years numerous bribery investigations have cast a black cloud over the Swedish vendors international operations. In December 2019, Ericsson agreed to settle a number of major bribery cases brought by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), agreeing to pay $1.1 billion in penalties. The...

AST SpaceMobile, which is backed by Vodafone and various other global mobile operators, has successfully completed the deployment of a huge 693-square-foot (64.4-square-meter) phased array antenna on their prototype BlueWalker 3 LEO satellite. The platform will be used to test a new space-based 4G and 5G cellular broadband network. Over the past few months we’ve […]