TIM to take 2021 earnings hit on football deal
Italian operator group TIM is upbeat about the impact its controversial football streaming deal with DAZN will have on its core financial metrics in the next couple of years.
Italian operator group TIM is upbeat about the impact its controversial football streaming deal with DAZN will have on its core financial metrics in the next couple of years.
Italy’s competition watchdog has launched an investigation into TIM’s exclusive deal with rights holder DAZN to stream top-flight football content, but the Italian telco is sticking to its story – that the deal is good for competition in the pay TV market.
Cellnex has closed the Italian portion of its European towers mega-deal, adding over 9,000 sites to its growing European footprint.
TIM’s new enterprise cloud unit Noovle has provided more detail about its partnership with Cisco, which it hopes will turbo-charge its push into the market.
Iliad is upbeat about its progress in Italy, but nonetheless is delaying the launch of its planned fixed-line service in the market.
Europe is making solid progress in both the rollout and take-up of full fibre connections, according to new market data published this week, but there is still plenty of work to, particularly by three of the continent’s major economies.
The Italian government is reportedly on the verge of pulling the plug on a plan to create a single fixed-line network due to fears over creating a new telecoms monopoly in the country.
Huawei is losing another friend in Europe, if press reports that it has been shown the door by Italy’s TIM prove to be correct.
Telecoms group TIM claims to be the first Italian operator to formally get the ball rolling on its OpenRAN deployment.
Cellnex’s mega-deal to acquire CK Hutchison’s telecoms towers has come up against a regulatory hurdle in Italy.
TIM has marked its return to the venture capital space with the launch of UV T-Growth, a fund dedicated to later stage investment in companies linked to 5G technologies.
Having made its mark on the Italian mobile market over the past three years, Iliad has now confirmed it will add to its portfolio and launch fixed services in Italy in the coming months.
TIM has named the Chief Executive of its new FiberCop business and it’s someone who is very familiar with the inner workings of the Italian telco but, sadly, not called Tim.
TIM reported growth in retail fixed lines in the fourth quarter of last year for the first time in 20 years.
When Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi held the first meeting of his new Council of Ministers there was a very familiar name on the list of attendees.
TIM is pushing ahead with plans to roll out fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) in urban areas of Italy through its new FiberCop unit, via a shared investment model.
Emulating its strategy in France, the latest entrant to Italy’s 5G market undercuts its competitors with a €9.99 per month offer.
Italy’s antitrust authorities are keen to ensure that the planned creation of a new wholesale fibre network won’t harm competition.
BT has agreed to sell a couple of Italian businesses to TIM via a deal of undisclosed value, but that is unlikely to be a big money-spinner for the UK incumbent.
Fixed Wireless Access is one of the best hopes operators have of making money from their 5G investments, so there’s a strong incentive to claim to be the best at it.
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