Lynk Global has signed their second commercial contract with Telecel Group in Africa to provide services to Vodafone Ghana’s subscribers. This new contract will provide mobile coverage to 100 per cent of Ghana’s population of 31 million inhabitants using Lynk’s ;cell-towers-in-space; system. Lynk’s cell towers in space will enable Telecel Group to offer ubiquitous geographic […]

MásMóvil ended the year as the third largest broadband provider in Spain – ahead of Vodafone – according to the latest CNMC data. MásMóvil hit a penetration rate of 18.6 per cent, higher than Vodafone’s 17.5 per cent, which is now in fourth place. Telefónica is the market leader with a 34.1 per cent share […]

The Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC), Portugal’s Competition Authority, has launched an in-depth investigation into Vodafone Portugal’s acquisition of local quad-play provider Nowo, expressing competition concerns. The antitrust authority justified its decision with the fact that, “given the evidence so far, it cannot be excluded that the merger will significantly impede effective competition in the national […]

Portuguese Mário Vaz is to be the new CEO of Vodafone Spain replacing Colman Deegan who resigned last January three years after his appointment. This is the second time Vodafone has called upon a Portuguese executive to take the post after the 2012-2020 mandate of Antonio Coimbra. Vaz has a good knowledge of both the […]

Emma Jones, Head of Group Content and Supply Chain Management Commercial Services at Vodafone, has admitted that exclusivity of content is no longer a must for pay-TV operators. Participating in a Fireside Chat on with industry analyst Ben Keen at the Connected TV World Summit in London the topic of’ ‘Pay-TV in 2023: reasons to […]

Following the announcement on October 17th 2022, Vodafone Group has confirmed the completion of the sale of 50 per cent of its German FTTH company to Altice. The creation of the JV, called FibreCo, received European Commission approval in February 2023. FibreCo will deploy fibre-to-the-home to up to 7 million homes in Germany over a […]

The past two quarters marked a definite slowdown within the fixed line sector as Covid pandemic gains firmly abated along with the cost of living crisis seeing a shift from fixed services to mobile broadband only, reports Point Topic. Despite the sector’s healthier uptake in numbers across the board, with around 85,000 net broadband additions […]

Streaming service AMC+ is turning into a linear channel in Spain on Vodafone TV during the month of March – to promote its exclusive content among the operator’s television subscriber base, at no extra charge. From the March 1st to 30th, Vodafone TV is broadcasting on channel 23 the first episodes of an extensive selection […]

Mobile industry trade body the GSMA has unveiled a new industry-wide initiative called GSMA Open Gateway, a framework of universal network Application Programmable Interfaces (APIs), designed to provide universal access to operator networks for developers. Launched with the support of 21 mobile network operators, the GSMA says the move represents a paradigm shift in the […]

Vodafone is to expand its European collaboration with Google within the Vodafone TV platform, mobile messaging and Pixel devices. The expanded agreement between the companies will enable Vodafone customers to access new messaging experiences through the adoption of Google Jibe Cloud to power Vodafone’s use of Rich Communications Services (RCS). The agreement will also introduce […]