Financial & Performance
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Venturing & Investments
BT exits startup Distributed, two years after £30m bet
Harmeen Mehta-era £30m commitment to BVI-bound software engineering talent-on-demand startup comes to an inauspicious end. DSTBTD’s FY23 financials indicate cash-strapped operation…
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Financial & Performance
Highlights: Over-powered DT presents headache for Europe’s telco club
Q3 FY24: Quarter sees Group put on another display of financial strength, fed by growth in USA and Europe — prompting some City analysts to question whether it should go easier on competitively challenged rivals in its home market.
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Financial & Performance
Guidance: DT doubles up on EU-US earnings
Q3 FY24: Jointly-driven earnings guidance uplift gives DT a welcome chance to underline how its business is not just about T-Mobile US.
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Financial & Performance
In-depth: DT’s show of strength creates analyst anxiety
Q3 FY24: DT continues to leave European rivals behind with strong growth throughout P&L and across geographies, creating apparent signs of concern among sector stakeholders.
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Financial & Performance
Vi surges on hopes for spectrum payment relief
Vi’s stock has revived by news that the Indian government has agreed that bank guarantees should be scrapped for deferred spectrum payments.
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Financial & Performance
Highlights: Telefónica keeps cool in face of turbulence
Q3 FY24: Operator stays on track to meet end-year financial targets, maintaining underlying momentum, but macro challenges put a dampener on quarterly performance…
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Financial & Performance
Guidance: ‘confident’ Telefónica steers through FX murk
Q3 FY24: Group exert “high level of confidence” in ability to hit FY24 targets, despite choppy competitive and economic conditions…
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Financial & Performance
Spend: thrifty Telefónica high-fives on capex low
Q3 FY24: Operator reports reductions in capital intensity and opex, with widening implementation of AI and progress in delayed copper switch-off programme given much of the credit…
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Financial & Performance
In-depth: Telefónica keeps on track despite Core Market mixed bag
Q3 FY24: Management puts spotlight on improved, strategy-central free cash flow, as macroeconomic challenges in Brazil and Hispam hinder sales and profitability growth…
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Content & TV
DT questions Vodafone’s cable TV defence tactics
Deutsche Telekom says slow disconnection of German users freed from bulk contracts by recent law change is dulling move’s intended competitive benefit.
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Financial & Performance
Highlights: Vodafone soon to emerge from ‘year of transition’
H1 FY24−25: Group CEO Margherita Della Valle confident the worst is behind her as evolving Vodafone nears final form.
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Financial & Performance
In-depth: battling Vodafone moves in the right direction
H1 FY24−25: Lowest ebb of Vodafone Germany not enough to dent management optimism of Group prospects, but MDU impact still felt…
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Financial & Performance
Spend: capex shifts to central functions as Vodafone OpCos rein in spend
H1 FY24−25: investments made in shared services, but in-market spend shrinks.
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Financial & Performance
Guidance: evolving Vodafone nears final form, still on track
Outlook reiterated after solid first half, with management painting bright prospects post-MDU and M&A impact…
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Financial & Performance
Safaricom pushes homegrown smartphones to keep mobile data momentum
Kenyan operator looks to boost 4G smartphone penetration to fuel customer and mobile data service revenue growth, but challenging economic conditions leaves consumers with less money to spend on new devices.
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Financial & Performance
Kirkby ‘convinced’ of BT strategic plan despite scale of challenge
Q2/H1 FY24-25: BT CEO Allison Kirkby now settled into role and aware of mountain to climb, but no less confident of the Group’s strategic direction.
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Financial & Performance
In-depth: change is coming at BT, ‘trust me’
Q2/H1 FY24-25: Group CEO Allison Kirkby calls on investors to ‘trust me’ in wait for promised turnaround as revenue falters in first half of the year.
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Financial & Performance
Spend: BT past its peak, transformation agenda in full flow
Q2/H1 FY24-25: BT capex drops as Openreach fibre build keeps spend in check.
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Financial & Performance
Guidance: BT lowers expectations
Q2/H1 FY24-25: BT Group revises revenue outlook for the year from growth to decline.
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Network & Infrastructure
OTE boss reassures over fibre build after slowdown
About 100,000 Greek homes are lopped off incumbent’s 2024 fibre build out plan, after marked slowdown in rollout pace this year.