All Results articles – Page 27
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Telefónica core markets: glimmers of a return to normality
Group’s key business engines report a mixed set of results, but with signs of recovery emerging over the course of Q2.
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Spending: Capex peaks and operational efficiencies rise
Management assures infrastructure investment will be maintained, as key in post-COVID-19 world. Customer experience another priority area. Other projects being reined in to free up funds, though, with Abosolo stressing “strict screening” of spend plans
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Strategy & Change
Infra ambition to fibre up the world
Telefónica Infra-Tech Q2 FY20 analysis. Telxius set to expand its remit beyond tower management and subsea cables with ambitions to bring Group fibre deployment expertise to wholesale markets across Europe and Latin America. Investors may be sought to monetise new infrastructure. Telxius Q2 FY20 performance shows resilience in difficult ...
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Guidance: it’ll all be over by Christmas (2021)
Telefónica said it expects to meet its revised FY20 guidance, although even with the minimal targets it has set itself there is a challenge to be faced.
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Financial highlights: generating cash and cutting costs
Telefónica’s numbers for the quarter to 30 June 2020 (Q2 FY20) made grim reading.
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Strategy & Change
Telefónica Q2 FY20
Another social pact unveiled as COVID-19 and currency falls combine to wipe €1.5bn of reported revenue in second quarter and shred profitability. Cash generation a priority as strict — and seemingly permanent — spending and investment restrictions are put in place. “Resilience” the key quality attributed to the Group ...
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Vodafone Q1 FY20–21
What ‘new normal’? Leadership pressing on with long-running efficiency and asset sale plans regardless of coronavirus disruption. Hints of bottlenecks owing to top duo’s workload. Group Finance’s €1bn cost-cutting plan “proceeding very well”. Footprint retrenchment not necessarily done, with some OpCos still appearing stuck on the margins. Currency weakness ...
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Vodafone Q1 FY20–21 spend: no obvious change of course, post-COVID-19
Any post-COVID-19 spend strategy changes appear to either be being kept under wraps, or subjugated by leadership focus on keeping the business on track.
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Vodafone Q1 FY20–21 headline performance: Germany and the rest
COVID-19 blow cushioned: strength in Germany and Portugal, with mixed performances elsewhere. Currency weakness turning Read’s focus on Africa sour.
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Services at the core of enigmatic Telefónica Tech
Beyond the big talk about Telefónica Tech, associated revenue remains modest, and growth not immune to pandemic impacts.
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Deutsche Telekom Q2 FY20
Super-sized by Sprint deal, Group now dwarfs European competitors in terms of sales, spend — and debt. Management attention now firmly on European puzzles that have sat unsolved for years, including teaser of pro-investment regulations. Switch-around of Europe-side executives could bring in fresh ideas and approaches to key strategic ...
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Q2 FY20 first take: Telefónica distracts as reality bites
Another social pact unveiled as COVID-19 and currency falls combine to wipe €1.5bn off reported revenue, and shred profitability. Cash generation a priority as strict — and seemingly permanent — spending and investment restrictions are put in place. Telefónica Infra ambition emerging as plans for new wholesale fibre networks ...
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BT FY19–20: SME coronavirus pain hits BT early
BT did not overly dwell on the impact of the Coronavirus crisis, highlighting areas where it has assisted, as well as where it has benefited and sees potential opportunities.
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BT FY19–20: Headline results reflect the ‘old normal’…
BT presented its headline financials as having been on track, COVID-19 crisis excepted. On an ‘adjusted’ basis, revenue and EBITDA were each down around 3% for the FY.
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BT FY19–20: Jansen leading through the gloom
Managed services revenue slumps at Global, while mobile fails to prove itself a panacea across corporate divisions. Guidance for the year largely achieved, but post-COVID-19 uncertainty prompts Group to hold off on future forecasts. Transformation ambitions uprated on internal IT overhaul and redoubled commitment to invest in next-generation networks, ...
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DT Group Q1 FY20: Höttges calls post-lockdown power-play
Upbeat executives comfortable enough to keep guidance and dividend unchanged, despite some COVID-19 impact on B2B projects and consumer sales. Typically energetic Höttges gets pro-active in post-COVID-19 politics, positioning DT as key enabler for socio-economic recovery and dismissing cable rivals’ broadband platform as illusory. Messages differ across Atlantic, with ...
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Deutsche Telekom Q1 FY20 headlines: Trans-Atlantic platform coming together
Slow-and-steady recovery continues in Europe, at least ahead of lockdown. Major boost as broadband momentum regained in Germany.
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Deutsche Telekom Q1/FY20 first take: only mild symptoms, so far
Upbeat executives comfortable enough to keep guidance and dividend unchanged, despite some COVID-19 impact on B2B projects and consumer sales.
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Financial & Performance
Telefónica talks up increasing digital relevance
Group believes seismic societal change will emphasise the relevance of emerging digital services. However, in recent months the rate of growth has been slowing, not accelerating. Corporate digitalisation still where the money’s at for Telefónica, with changes in the consumer market focused more on updating sales channels and improving ...
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Vodafone FY19–20 quick take: no change here
Read infers Group is better placed, post-Colao for economic downturn. Della Valle confirms new, AT Kearney-inspired €1bn cost-cutting plan, after trailering move in late-2019. No disruption to Read’s M&A overhaul, beyond Egypt. Targets hit but glitchy performance, both at OpCos and Vodafone Business.