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Imminent TIM and Open Fiber deal revives hopes of single Italian network

TIM is set to allow Open Fiber to use its ducts and poles to extend fibre broadband to unserved areas of Italy.

• 11 Feb 2022

Ofcom says broadband and mobile complaints are down across the board

UK comms regulator Ofcom has published its latest quarterly report on the number of complaints it receives related to landline, broadband, mobile and pay-TV services.

• 08 Feb 2022

New TIM CEO looking into network spin-off

TIM’s broad of directors has charged new chief exec Pietro Labriola with examining options for the future of its infrastructure assets, which could include a network spin-off.

• 27 Jan 2022

Iliad launches broadband in Italy with cheap FTTH and home-made box

French telco group Iliad launched its fixed broadband service in Italy on Tuesday with all the whooping and hollering one would expect from a new market entrant.

• 25 Jan 2022

BT whacks up prices but offers EE customers Apple freebies too

UK telecoms group BT takes with one hand in the form of a price increase and gives with the other thanks to some generous Apple content subs through its mobile arm EE. 

• 21 Jan 2022

Orange cheers 6 million FTTH customers

Orange is very excited about hitting its latest full fibre uptake milestone, but there are still plenty of people in France still to sign up to FTTH from the incumbent or a rival.

• 20 Jan 2022

Jio pays off $4 billion in spectrum dues and takes broadband crown

Reliance Jio is on a roll, paying off billions of dollars of spectrum liabilities just a day after official figures revealed it is now India’s biggest fixed broadband provider.

• 19 Jan 2022

Italy dangles €3.7 billion in broadband funding

Italy has launched a major ultra-broadband tender worth €3.7 billion just days after it failed to attract interest in its first attempt to allocate EU funding.

• 18 Jan 2022

IP Telecom recruits Nokia to expand Portuguese fibre network

IP Telecom has enlisted kit vendor Nokia to extend its fibre optic around metro areas in Portugal, with a key emphasis on quantum security.

• 17 Jan 2022

Italian broadband recovery plan in doubt after small islands failure

Italy’s telecoms players have all declined to take part in a project to roll out high-speed broadband in its islands, an outcome that could have a knock-on effect.

• 14 Jan 2022

Italian government wants control of TIM’s assets after any takeover

As the KKR takeover bid for Telecom Italia hangs in the air, the Italian government has signalled that it wants to control key strategic assets.

• 13 Jan 2022

DirecTV-Dish merger on the cards as market flounders

Talk of a merger between DirecTV and Dish has resurfaced once again, but this time the broader market conditions could make such a move more likely to get regulatory approval.

• 13 Jan 2022

We downloaded 230 billion apps in 2021

Analytics firm App Annie claims 230 billion apps were downloaded and $170 billion was spent on apps globally in 2021.

• 12 Jan 2022

Borderlink gets £164 million fund for fibre rollout up north

Specialist asset management company Gresham House has invested £165 million into broadband provider Borderlink to boost its broadband expansion in Scotland and the North of England.

• 10 Jan 2022

Bharti consolidates fibre assets as it walks away from planned re-org

Bharti Airtel has abandoned plans to reorganise its business, buoyed by the Indian telecoms reform package, but is still shuffling certain assets, including bringing a fibre business in house.

• 06 Jan 2022

Antin set to cash in on Spain’s fibre success

Spanish fibre operator Lyntia is reportedly up for sale at a value estimated to be in the region of €4 billion.

• 06 Jan 2022

2021 was a record year for UK data use – VMO2

UK operator group Virgin Media O2 has published the numbers on the use of its networks this year and revealed we downloaded more than ever.

• 22 Dec 2021

Openreach has plugged in full fibre to 100,000 customers in Northern Ireland

BT subsidiary Openreach’s Northern Ireland expansion continues, as it connects it’s 100,000th customer to its 1 Gbps fibre-to-the-premises network.

• 20 Dec 2021

Virgin Media O2 wants to pick your telly for you

Converged UK telco Virgin Media O2 has launched a TV and film recommendation engine called ‘What should I Watch?‘

• 20 Dec 2021

Greek incumbent OTE Group ploughs billions into fibre

The OTE Group has announced plans to roll out full fibre to 3 million homes and businesses in Greece over the next five years, investing around €3 billion in the process.

• 17 Dec 2021