All Financial & Performance articles – Page 3
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Financial & PerformanceVodafone Business quietly enters Group’s ‘growth’ agenda
Q1 FY26–27: B2B improvements mean division is an increasingly important part of the turnaround story, driven by cloud, cybersec, and SaaS, underpinned by deals with digital services allies.
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Strategy & ChangeUK’s Hyperoptic puts take-up in crosshairs after hitting fibre build target
After hitting long-term rollout target of passing two million homes, urban-focused altnet targets investments in AI and wholesale segment to help with achieving a new goal of doubling its customer base by 2030.
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Network & InfraOpenreach’s fibre roll slows to 2021 levels
Q1 FY26–27: rollout pace declines sharply as 25 million threshold nears, while customer adds ramp up to become primary Openreach preoccupation, as BT keeps post-2026 build playbook hidden…
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Strategy & ChangeKPN may rethink fibre ambition after Delta buy blocked
Dutch incumbent’s Chief Executive Joost Farwerck calls watchdog’s decision to thwart bolt-on purchase of fibre assets from rival Delta “very strange”, and warns it may prompt a rejig of its footprint expansion goal for 2030.
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Financial & PerformanceEuroTeleSites hits H1 top-line marks as tenancies flow in
Central and eastern European tower group cites third-party tenancy gains as driver of faster-than-expected revenue growth in H1 FY26.
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Financial & PerformanceEutelsat/OneWeb: UK’s £500m LEO satellite bet loses two-thirds of value in six years
As now-parent Eutelsat painfully pivots from geostationary to low Earth orbit infrastructure, the UK’s £342m loss on its controversial OneWeb rescue faces fresh scrutiny. Despite the substantial loss of value, government officials maintain that LEO commitment remains crucial to the nation.
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Financial & PerformanceEricsson chief signs off, claims network revival nearing
Amid continuing growth challenges, Ericsson President & CEO Börje Ekholm is pinning hopes on physical AI and defence comms, and claims vendor is fully primed to exploit opportunities for a top-line revival.
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M&AFrom bitter critic to anchor investor: Xavier Niel replaces e& as Vodafone’s largest shareholder
In-depth: Audacious French telecoms tycoon snaps up e&’s stake in a €5bn transaction. Niel expresses confidence in strategic direction and ‘value creation potential’, just two years after expensively venting frustration at ‘mismanagement’…
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Strategy & Changegiffgaff preps fintech side hustle as new CEO eyes deeper customer ties
MVNOs World: Innovative MVNO’s boss Kate Dohaney sees telco connectivity as mere ‘table stakes’ in the AI era and is exploring new routes towards value creation, including events, financial services, and education.
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Strategy & ChangeUtility Warehouse eyes broadband and mobile opportunities as it chases convergence
In depth: Multi-play broadband and utilities provider unveils a five-year plan to drive up mobile, broadband, and insurance, while tapping an AI commercial opportunity. UW may be a litmus test as UK altnets develop retail strategies to go beyond connectivity…
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Network & InfraThe quest for autonomy: how agentic AI can deliver real ROI — new report
Research provides telcos with a pathway to delivering real value from agentic AI, featuring Tier 1 use cases and recommendations to help bridge “the autonomy chasm” to reduce operating costs, improve service reliability, and increase network agility.
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Strategy & Change‘We’re built different’: how disruptive Digi is putting unorthodox group ethos into practice in Spain
In depth: Digi Spain has adopted its parent group’s ‘radical pricing model’ and industrial approach to build a vertically integrated challenger to Spain’s three established telecoms players. The result has been successive years of 20%-plus top line growth, an expanding share of the market, and a platform for the group to extend its disruptive playbook to other European markets.
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Financial & PerformanceVodafone Spain progresses dramatic, private equity-led turnaround
Spain’s number three telco has more than doubled margin in the two years since being sold by Vodafone to investment group Zegona Communications, again raising a question mark over strategy under its previous owner. Having proved its buy-fix-sell transformation model, Zegona is now eyeing other acquisition targets…
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica sees early gains in Transform & Grow revival plan
Q1 FY26: Execs at trimmed-down and re-focused Telefónica claim already to be seeing positive results from its new, five-year strategic plan, announced late last year. Operational changes and exits from volatile markets have made the Group smaller, but also given management a more solid and predictable platform for growth, execs argue.
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica’s FY26 plan ‘on track’, despite mixed data
Q1 FY26: Telefónica says it is on course to meet goals for the FY after recording forward movement in revenue and earnings in first quarter.
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Financial & PerformanceTelefónica renews savings account
Q1 FY26: Group leadership continues to seek out new sources of efficiencies across the business, as part of Transform & Grow strategy.
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Financial & PerformanceSavings progress drives Telefónica delivery
Q1 FY26: With revenue growth awaiting ramp-up, Telefónica’s progress on spend efficiency keeps Group on track for FY26 guidance…
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Financial & PerformanceBT boss ‘having fun’ amid transformation challenge, industry noise, global turbulence
FY25–26: CEO Allison Kirkby relishing challenge two years in, claiming progress in place and runway for more through further cost-cutting, a B2B reset, and Consumer momentum leveraging Openreach strengths. Conversion still lacking, but management not short of optimism…
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Financial & PerformanceBT ‘on the right path’ but braced for near-term decline
FY25–26: Expectations set for marginal revenue decline in coming FY, but management confident in medium-term prospects as capex tapers and free cash flow balloons.
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Financial & PerformanceBT hunts for further cuts
FY25–26: after delivering its first £3bn savings goal ahead of time, and kicking on with another immediately after, BT has now expanded the programme by £700m and given itself an extra year to hit the new target.