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Google Fiber announces first expansion in half a decade
Google has announced its first broadband expansion in five years. The Alphabet-owned company, which also…
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Deutsche Telekom sees solid growth in German TV base
Telekom’s TV subscriber base in Germany increased by 2.7% to 4.039 million year-on-year in the…
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Türk Telekom sees TV base decline as economy takes toll
Türk Telekom had 2.9 million satellite TV and IPTV subscribers at the end of June,…
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Player.pl now available to Canal+ Polska subscribers
Warner Bros. Discovery-owned Polish media group TVN’s Player.pl VOD offering is now available to subscribers…
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Norlys opens up more fibre to multiple providers
Danish utility group Norlys has opened up the fibre network in the cities of Randers…
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Disney+ launches on Foxtel STBs
Australian telco The Foxtel Group has announced the integration of Disney+ on its set-top boxes….
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HBO Max comes back to AT&T
Hot off the news that it is to launch a combined streaming offer in 2023,…
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Sky Italia and DAZN forge streaming and TV partnership
Pay TV giant Sky and sports streamer DAZN have signed an agreement in Italy that makes DAZN’s app…
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Canal+ announces EPL sublicencing deals in Slovakia and Czech Republic
Canal+ has reached sublicencing agreements with a trio of operators in Slovakia and the Czech…
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US imposes sanctions on National Media Group chair Kabaeva
The US, along with the EU and UK, has imposed sanctions on the chair of…
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Bouygues Telecom ups target after solid first half
French service provider Bouygues Telecom “maintained good commercial momentum” in the first half of 2022…
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Disney+ comes to Virgin TV 360
More than two years after launching in the UK, Disney+ is finally becoming available on…
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Altice USA rebrands Suddenlink as Optimum
Altice USA has rebranded its Suddenlink subsidiary as Optimum, bringing the company’s telecommunications products and…
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Orange’s rivals slam copper net shut-down plan
Orange’s French competitors have expressed dismay over the country’s leading telco’s plan to shut down…
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France, Italy and Spain call on EC to make big tech contribute to network costs
A joint effort from legislators in France, Italy and Spain will apply pressure on the…
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Entertainment ‘increasingly critical’ for Liberty Global, says Fries
Entertainment is “increasingly a critical part of the bundle” of service for Liberty Global, according…
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Canal+ sees revenue and subscriber numbers rise again
Vivendi’s pay TV outfit Canal+ Group continued to grow both revenue and subscriber numbers in…
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EC launches in-depth probe of Orange-Voo/Brutélé acquisition
The European Commission has opened an in-depth competition probe into the proposed acquisition of Belgian…
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Fries: no plan to replicate Telenet/Fluvius model in the Netherlands
Liberty Global-backed Belgian service provider Telenet’s plan to split off its infrastructure into a new…
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A week of doom and gloom leaves little room for optimism – is it any surprise?
Well that was depressing. Once every few months, the stars align and we here at…
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Peacock stable as Comcast sweats on stalled broadband growth and churn at Sky
NBCUniversal-owned streaming service Peacock saw its paid subscriber numbers stall at around 13 million in…
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DTH down in India
DTH services in India saw total subscribers drop by 1.6 million in the first quarter…
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Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia Capital Partners announce new UK fibre network JV
Liberty Global, Telefónica and InfraVia Capital Partners have announced an agreement to launch a UK…
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Orange sees TV base decline in second quarter
Orange saw its global TV base declined for the second sequential quarter in Q2. The…
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Virgin Media gains customers and returns to revenue growth
UK service provider Virgin Media O2 said it gained 8,000 net new fixed-line customers in…
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Telenet foregrounds fixed-mobile convergence but struggles to attract new subs
Liberty Global-backed Belgian service provider Telenet saw continued benefits from its move to foreground fixed-mobile…
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Singtel to take US$80 million hit on Amobee sale as telco agrees deal with Tremor International
Southeast Asia’s largest telco Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel) has announced a deal to sell its digital…
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BT returns to growth as workers gear up for strike action
BT Group has seen a return to growth with a narrow 1% increase in Q1…
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Sunrise UPC secures CHL through SRG sublicensing deal
Swiss service provider Sunrise UPC’s premium sports offering MySports is to broadcast all Champions Hockey…
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Sky Glass to launch in Ireland
Sky is set to bring its Sky Glass range of smart TVs to Ireland. Starting…