News Archives - Mobile Europe

Proximus and three other operators agree to build out fibre faster in Flanders

Access 26 July 2024

The Belgium incumbent, Wyre, Telenet and Fiberklaar signed an MoU which should allow them to expand the roll-out of infra in the Dutch-speaking north with less disruption from construction

Liberty Global reports Sunrise, fibre progress in Q2 amid challenges

Financial/Regulation 26 July 2024

The performance in certain segments, particularly VMO2 and Telenet, reveals challenges that need to be addressed, including customer retention and revenue stabilisation

BT and Vodafone report subdued, if expected, results

Financial/Regulation 25 July 2024

Germany remains a drag on Vodafone while BT’s shed a record number of broadband customers in a quarter at just under 200,000

MasOrange, Vodafone aim to set up €10bn fibre JV in Spain, looking for investor

Access 24 July 2024

Local business newspaper Expansión says MasOrange would hold 50% of the new entity, Vodafone 10% and sell the outstanding 40% to investors

Hrvatski Telekom to supply Rijeka port with private 5G

5G & Beyond 23 July 2024

The Croatian operator is the second Deutsche Telekom business to recently signal a tower spin-off, after Greece’s OTE

Vodafone sells another 10% stake in TowerCo for €1.3bn

Financial/Regulation 22 July 2024

Vantage Towers now in 50:50 joint ownership with the consortium that includes KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners, as planned

One update caused the “biggest IT outage ever” – time to rethink resilience

Security 19 July 2024

The US group CrowdStrike reportedly caused a problem with Microsoft’s operating systems resulting in disruption around the world

Bloomberg reports potential bidders for the rump of BT Italia

Financial/Regulation 19 July 2024

Is BT finally close to the end of its Italian opera?

Towering ambitions: a TOTEM to total digitalisation

RAN 18 July 2024

Nicolas Roy, CEO of Orange’s towerco, TOTEM, talks about organic growth, scaling up the neutral host model and being part of a wider digitalisation of French territory

Kyivstar adds more network resilience in Ukraine

Access 18 July 2024

The operator has announced new measure to addresses power blackouts with industrial-grade generator fleet

Vodafone Business to offer unified comms platform to 30+ countries by early 2025

Digital Platforms & APIs 17 July 2024

The business unit will also sell RingCentral’s contact centre service, starting in the UK

LatAm operator Millicom rejects Niel’s takeover bid

Financial/Regulation 17 July 2024

The board says the offer is too low – the company’s share price has risen by more than a third in the last year

Alphabet closes in on $23bn deal for Wiz cybersecurity start-up

Security 16 July 2024

If the deal goes through, it will be biggest ever acquisition by Google's parent

Liquid C2 launches Cloudmania in Egypt

Cloud/NFV 16 July 2024

Cassava Group’s cloud business is expanding its Middle East channel partner ecosystem

Juniper predicts mobile money spend to hit $2.17tn by 2029

Financial/Regulation 15 July 2024

That’s a 51% increase from this year, driven by a move towards higher margin merchant payments and international remittances