Israel’s auction of 5G-suitable spectrum has officially come to a close, with the Ministry of Communications (MoC) naming three winning bidders. All three secured identical spectrum allocations, specifically a 10MHz... more

Georgian mobile operator MagtiCom has announced it has started testing 5G technology. Without providing further details, the company says it is cooperating with ‘three leading telecommunication equipment manufacturers around the... more

Edge Cable Holdings (Facebook), AquaComms, Cable & Wireless Americas Systems and Microsoft Infrastructure have applied for a licence to land and operate within US territory the Amitie system, a private... more

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission is seeking feedback on its approach to determining the value of the financial loss asset for the new regulatory regime being developed for fibre service providers.... more

The head of Italian telco Fastweb has said a plan for Telecom Italia (TIM) to maintain control of its last-mile networks business is ‘sound’. TIM is looking to sell a... more

UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has launched a consultation on its proposed regulation of the wholesale markets for call services for the period April 2021 to March 2026. Noting that ‘the... more

Telecom Egypt has announced a 20% year-on-year increase in consolidated revenue in the quarter ended 30 June 2020, with turnover rising to EGP7.94 billion (USD497 million). It attributed this level... more

Danish telco TDC, the country’s leading operator in terms of subscribers, has published its financial results for the three months ended 30 June 2020, reporting a 7.7% decline in revenues... more

China Mobile reported a 0.1% year-on-year increase in total revenues to CNY389.9 billion (USD56.1 billion) in the first half of 2020, including service revenues which rose by 1.9% to CNY358.2... more

In the first half of 2020 China Unicom registered 3.8% year-on-year growth in total revenue to CNY150.4 billion (USD21.7 billion), with service revenue climbing 4.0% to CNY138.3 billion. Cost efficiency... more

Romania-based Digi Communications has reported group revenues (excluding intersegment revenue and other income) of EUR309.9 million (USD366.3 million) for the three month period ended 30 June 2020, an increase of... more

In the second quarter of 2020 Turkcell’s consolidated revenues increased 11.8% year-on-year to TRY6.924 billion (USD943 million), with the Turkish group posting a 10.6% rise in EBITDA to TRY2.824 billion.... more