TeleGeography Logo

28 Apr 2023

Mobile

DITO to launch post-paid and enterprise plans by June as it seeks to improve profitability

Adel Tamano, Chief Administrative Officer of DITO Telecommunity Corp, has revealed that the newcomer plans to begin offering post-paid mobile plans and dip its toe into the enterprise segment by... more

Ministry calls meeting with mobile operators to improve service quality

Cameroon’s Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has called for an urgent meeting between mobile operators MTN, Orange, Viettel and CamTel and the Telecommunications Regulatory Board (ART) to discuss measures to... more

UKE aims to reshuffle 900MHz band

The Office of Electronic Communications (Urzad Komunikacji Elektronicznej, UKE) in Poland is looking to shuffle telco spectrum holdings in the 900MHz band to create four contiguous blocks. A report from... more

Ukraine starts harmonisation of legislation to join EU free roaming zone

The Ukraine-EU Association Committee in Trade Configuration has completed official procedures for amending the Association Agreement to enable Ukraine to join the EU mobile ‘roam like home’ zone, Ukraine’s National... more

Fixed Broadband

Cable Compendium: a guide to the week’s submarine and terrestrial developments

The India Asia Xpress (IAX) submarine cable system being developed by Reliance Jio has landed at Matara in Sri Lanka, in partnership with Dialog Axiata. The IAX, which is expected... more

T-Mobile US FWA user base passes the three million mark

T-Mobile US reported a total of 3.169 million 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) subscriptions as of 31 March 2023, as it continues to make inroads into the US fixed broadband... more

Govt, Kazakhtelecom set out Accessible Internet aims

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Digital Development, Innovation & Aerospace Industry (MDAI) and nationwide fixed network operator Kazakhtelecom (KT) have held meetings at which officials set out various goals of the new... more

Vision Network completes speed upgrades for more premises, adds additional retail partners

Vision Network, the wholesale fixed broadband arm of TPG Telecom, has announced that it has now completed speed upgrades for 295,000 premises. According to the company, since launching G.fast technology... more

Corporate/Financial

Govt pushes ahead with plan to acquire Oi’s stake in Timor Telecom

The government of Timor-Leste has approved the purchase of Brazilian operator Oi’s majority stake in Timor Telecom (TT), a move that, if concluded, would make the state the majority owner... more

Singtel merges consumer/enterprise businesses, and creates infrastructure division

Singtel Group has announced a corporate revamp under which it will consolidate its consumer and enterprise businesses in Singapore into a singular operating company. Further, the carrier has revealed that... more

Maroc Telecom reports revenue growth of 3.7% y-o-y in Q1 2023

Maroc Telecom (IAM) has published its financial results for the three months ended 31 March 2023, reporting a 3.7% year-on-year increase in revenues from MAD8.770 billion (USD859 million) to MAD9.093... more

Proximus Q1 revenue up 5.9%, EBITDA down 3.5% due to higher operating costs

Belgian full-service telecoms operator Proximus has reported first-quarter results in line with its full-year guidance. Group underlying revenue for the three months ended 31 March 2023 rose 5.9% year-on-year to... more

Millicom 1Q23 revenue drops 2.8% to USD1.37bn due to currency depreciation

Millicom International Cellular (MIC), which offers mobile and cable broadband services in Latin America via the Tigo brand, has reported quarterly revenue of USD1.369 billion for the three months ended... more

GlobalComms Database

Want more? Peruse the GlobalComms Database—the most complete source of intel about mobile, fixed broadband, and fixed voice markets.

TeleGeography

TeleGeography is the definitive source for telecom news, numbers, and analysis. Explore the full research catalog.