All Results articles
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Financial & Performance
Q3: Vodafone’s German problems take root as OpCo flounders
Q3 FY24–25: insipid performance of largest OpCo overshadows promise elsewhere, spooking investors, with forced cable TV unbundling only part of mushrooming problems. There is light at the end, if management is believed, but tunnel keeps getting longer…
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Financial & Performance
BT Q3 Guidance: confident but under pressure
Q3 FY24–25: Having reduced revenue targets last quarter, BT now expects to hit FY goals even if under pressure to deliver in final three months.
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Financial & Performance
BT Q3 Spend: savings on track thanks to job cuts, network upgrades
Q3 FY24–25: Efficiencies delivered through headcount cull and fibre migrations, with BT on track to hit financial savings targets…
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Financial & Performance
BT Q3 In-depth: talk is good, but seeing will be believing
Q3 FY24–25: CEO Allison Kirkby remains optimistic about FY despite shaky Q3, but goalpost-moving last quarter left expectations low. The headlines are much the same: Consumer’s woe; Business’s rebirth; Openreach’s fibre charge. While the latter is still BT’s source of good news, there are awkward questions over each of the Group’s CFUs…
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Financial & Performance
BT Q3 Highlights: is the tanker beginning to turn?
Q3 FY24–25: 12-months in and CEO Allison Kirkby continues to impose herself on the Group with yet more executive changes, but the needle on KPIs has scarcely twitched. Management remains optimistic about prospects at Consumer and Openreach, but latest Business reboot smacks of overseas defeat, as Q3 trading update builds on now-familiar ‘wait and see’ mantra…
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Financial & Performance
Egyptian star rises: Vodacom heralds strength of most recent import
Vodafone Egypt cements status as Vodacom’s second-largest market, with currency stability and network-sharing portending next 5G chapter. South Africa remains solid overall, as the International segment sees data and smartphone growth offsetting geopolitical challenges.
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Financial & Performance
In depth: Openreach line losses accelerate, fibre gaps widen as strategic vulnerability
Q3 FY24–25: BT’s wholesale division again reports strong financials and record fibre build, but a deeper look reveals a worrying trend of accelerating line losses. This analysis delves into the implications of altnet and Project Gigabit competition, eroding historic market dominance.
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Strategy & Change
BT names UK Business boss as domestic focus steps up a level
Vision for homeland-centric BT advances as UK Business inaugurated with Jon James poached to lead, veteran Bas Burger redeployed to MNC ‘optimisation’ (or offload). CEO Allison Kirkby’s career has criss-crossed James’, including tenure as Nordic CEOs, private equity, NetCo-ServCo and transformer experience. Completing circle, BT’s Christian Thrane succeeded James at Nuuday…
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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
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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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.