Back in March, Canadian telco giant Rogers announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire rival Shaw for around $26 billion, a move that would shrink the number of mobile players in the market from four to three.
The deal was met with uncertainty from onlookers, many of whom lamented that it would reduce customer choice and increase prices in an already dysfunctional mobile market. As a result, strict regulatory conditions are set to be attached to the deal, the extent of which are still being decided.
Now…
Numbeo Ranks UK 39th in the World for Cost of Broadband Service
The latest data gathered by Numbeo, which is a crowd-sourced global database that examines the cost of living, has surveyed the cost of fixed broadband ISP provision across 109 countries and found that the United Kingdom ranked as the 39th most expensive country, with an average monthly cost of £30.87. The most expensive country was […]
Investing in Italian telecoms: Infrastructure over operators
The Italian telecoms market is currently a fascinating place, with a broadly positive regulatory environment and a history of innovation.
However, when it comes to equity investment in the telecoms sector, Italy, like Europe as a whole, must do more to not only attract investors but to follow through on their project effectively, especially in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Speaking at this year’s online Connected Italy event, panellists from Analysys Mason, HSBC, and the European Investment Bank (ESB) began by discussing the difference in investor feeling for telecoms operators versus pure infrastructure assets.
Luigi Minerva, Senior Telecoms Analyst, Director of Equity Research at HSBC, described telcos as &ldquo…
Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr UAV set to deliver broadband to remote regions
Last month, Airbus’s solar powered Zephyr S High Altitude Platform System (HAPS) achieved 36 days of stratospheric flight in two sessions, as well as setting a new world record in absolute altitude for devices of its class at 76,100 ft.
In total, Zephyr has now completed around 3,322 flight hours, with the various tests designed to show that the unmanned device can fly beyond restrictive airspace, travelling far above and not interfering with commercial air traffic…
Wireless UK ISP APC Solutions to Start Building FTTP Broadband
Wireless network and IT services provider APC Solutions (APC Communications Solutions), which also runs the Essex (England) focused ISP Essex WiFi, has revealed that they intend to expand into building their own gigabit-capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) based broadband services. The new approach came to light as part of APC’s request for Code Powers from Ofcom, which […]
Virgin Media Broadband Customers Get Access to O2 Priority
Customers of UK ISP Virgin Media’s home broadband, phone and TV packages should now be able to access O2’s Priority app, which is normally exclusive to O2’s customers and is a way of rewarding them with various offers from high street brands, tickets and experiences – all at no extra cost. The change was already […]
American Tower buys CoreSite for $10.1bn to prepare for edge computing boom
American Tower Corp. has announced a $10.1 billion deal to purchase data centre real estate company CoreSite Realty Corp., aiming to leverage the company’s infrastructure to boost their own mobile edge compute business.
“We are in the early stages of a cloud-based, connected and globally distributed digital transformation that will evolve over the next decade and beyond…
Telstra to begin its push into energy resale next year
In November last year, Telstra announced a considerable organisational reshuffle that saw the business split into three separate entities: InfraCo Fixed, which owns Telstra’s physical infrastructure assets like ducts, fibre, and submarine cables; InfraCo Towers, owning the company’s mobile tower assets (49% of which was this year sold to a Future Fund-led consortium for $2.8 billion); and ServeCo, Telstra’s retail business.
But perhaps even more interesting was the company announcing plans to move into energy retail…
Ofcom’s Q2 2021 Complaints Study Shames UK ISP TalkTalk
Ofcom has published their latest Q2 2021 (calendar) consumer complaints study, which saw TalkTalk come top of the naughty table for gripes about their fixed line home broadband and phone services. Meanwhile, Virgin Media took the most flak for Mobile and Pay TV, although overall complaints were down. As usual, this report only covers complaints […]
Vodafone UK Grows to 962k Fixed Broadband ISP Customers
ISP and mobile operator Vodafone UK has today published their latest quarterly results (financial Q2 FY22), which reveals that their fixed broadband base added another +22,000 customers (vs +29k in the previous quarter) to make for a total base of 962,000. But their mobile base sat unchanged on 16,994,000. The operator has been in the […]