All TelcoTitans Premium Content articles – Page 9
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Financial & PerformanceQ1 Guidance: BT unmoved by early trouble
Q1 FY25–26: Management reconfirms full-year guidance, with defiance made easier thanks to pessimistic outlook as laid out three months prior. Vague notions of ‘growth’ remain the target by the end of the decade…
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PeoplewatchVodafone Peoplewatch: IT changes at Group, Investments, Ireland
25+ senior and strategic executives changes, including a new Group CIO (and a change in Ireland); Vodafone Investments appoints CTO as former CEO completes her exit; government affairs official behind VodafoneThree merger steps down, job done; Cindy Rose takes on WPP top-spot…
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Analyst BriefingOrangewatch Analyst Briefing: H1 results, M&A in France, and interviews with Orange Business execs
Latest from Orange, including the analysis of the Group’s recent earnings call; ongoing speculation about M&A in France and the future of SFR; interviews with a series of senior execs; and the latest from Spain…
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Analyst BriefingVodafonewatch Analyst Briefing: best yet to come this year
Q1 FY25–26 special: management walks us through a broadly positive first quarter, but emphasises the latent potential for a ‘right-sized’ group that has taken ‘proactive’ steps towards a revival. German fruit soon ready for harvest, if CFO Luka Mucic is believed, with structural/strategic resets elsewhere also settling down…
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Financial & PerformanceQ1 guidance: UK on track to deliver earnings boost
Q1 FY25–26: combined VodafoneThree is performing as expected in its first few months, giving Group management confidence in FY forecasts.
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Financial & PerformanceQ1 spend: Vodafone stays the course on capex total and mix
Q1 FY25–26: market by market capital allocation untouched, and management ‘very happy’ with current setup’s capacity to leverage strengths. Asset sales in Europe has given the Vodafone ‘strategic flexibility’, which may open options for greater investment under the next CFO…
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Financial & PerformanceQ1 in-depth: Germany begins fightback
Q1 FY25–26: work to fix Vodafone Germany after years of decline is now beginning to pay off, management claims, and the OpCo is tracking to a return to growth (from a dwindling base) by year’s end. Elsewhere, Vodafone reports positive moves across the footprint put the group on course…
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Strategy & ChangeVM O2 in spotlight as Telefónica confirms NetCo plan scrapped
Telefónica boss says plan to spin out VM O2 network operation is permanently off the table, with the Group’s strategic review prompting the operator to renounce the NetCo-ServCo split model…
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Analyst BriefingDeutsche Telekomwatch Analyst Briefing: satcomms, sovereignty, and States-side strength
The latest developments from around DT, as T-Mobile US and Hrvatski Telekom kick off the H1 results round with solid growth numbers, OTE takes another step towards the exit door in Romania, and T-Systems ramps up its sovereignty pitch to German enterprise. Read more…
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Financial & PerformanceOrange ‘ready to engage’ in M&A talks in France — Heydemann
H1 FY25: Orange remains convinced of need for consolidation in France, although potential sale of SFR remains up in the air ahead of a court decision on Altice France debt restructuring plan.
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Financial & PerformanceGreen shoots now ‘tangible’ as Vodafone Germany shows signs of recovery
Q1 FY25–26: Troubled German OpCo shows early signs of recovery as promised by leadership, but still in decline and customer losses remain a headache. ‘Value over volume’ mantra has a nice ring, but when will it deliver?
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PeoplewatchTelefónica Peoplewatch: TV and infra resets
The latest strategic and senior changes at Telefónica, including reshuffles at Movistar Plus+ and Telxius and new jobs for recent top exec departures Chema Alonso and Mark Evans…
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Financial & PerformanceT-Mobile lifts guidance as buyouts and tie-ups unlock fresh growth channels
NatCo ups expectations for FY25 after delivering “best ever” Q2 for customer adds, beginning to digest two fibre acquisitions, readying closure of US Cellular deal, lining up B2B MVNO play with cablecos Charter and Comcast, and finally launching Starlink-backed T-Satellite offering….
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Analyst BriefingBTwatch Analyst Briefing: regulatory give and take
Latest from BT as the group benefits from spectrum licence fee savings, but warns of potential competitive damage if TAR changes go through as proposed; Simon Lowth reportedly on his way out; 5G SA rollout updates…
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Analyst BriefingVodafonewatch Analyst Briefing: deals driving network, security upgrades
Latest from Vodafone, including a spectrum fee reprieve; SecOps potential with $1bn partner Google Cloud; DOCSIS development in the Netherlands; more from Turkey, Kenya, South Africa, elsewhere…
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Analyst BriefingTelefónicawatch Analyst Briefing: fibre back in the fold
The latest developments from Telefónica as group agrees deal to regain full control of fibre rollout activity in Brazil, gains legal win in UK Phones 4u case, and is highlighted as one of telco sector’s early quantum tech leaders. Read more…
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Analyst BriefingBTwatch Analyst Briefing: moving network tests to the real world
Latest from BT as network slicing, 5G SA, and DAS go live; UK fibre challenger CityFibre raises its game with new funding and M&A potential; Adastral Park’s Gemini platform welcomes first quantum startup; and EE and friends earn collusion clearance in Phones 4u case; plus more…
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PeoplewatchBT Peoplewatch: Consumer and Business bosses take boardroom seats
30+ senior and strategic changes at BT, including a treasury replacement; more International swaps as the new B2B division gets settled; new boardroom digs for Marc Allera; more…
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Analyst BriefingDeutsche Telekomwatch Analyst Briefing: balancing acts on show
The group gives itself a dancing elephant artwork as a 30th birthday present, projecting confidence in its technical and geopolitical dexterity. Read more…
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Analyst BriefingVodafonewatch Analyst Briefing: far-flung fibre deals
Latest from Vodafone as it secures antitrust commission support for a fibre move in South Africa and cements an Australian fibre sale; Portugal CEO vents M&A frustration; group lends support to AI RAN Alliance as open RAN overhaul continues; build up to Q1 earnings…