By Fotis Fotinos The continuation of the gradual rise of the domestic mobile telephony market is evidenced by the latest data from EEKT (Association of Mobile Telephony Companies). The domestic mobile market has been on the rise since the second quarter of 2021, when service revenue started to pick up, which has continued into early […]
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Definitively ‘Nova’ the name of the company that will result from the merger of Wind and Nova
Nova and Wind Hellas, members of the United Group, a leading telecommunications and media provider in Southeast Europe, decided to give the name Nova to the new corporate entity that will result upon the completion of the merger of the two companies. The technically and operationally demanding merger project is expected to be completed by […]
Volton: Invests in RES, transforms into a multiservice provider
Green energy Wanting to consolidate its position on the country’s energy map, Volton is implementing an important investment plan in the field of green energy. In addition to the investments that are operating or are in the final stage of implementation, the Volton group, in the context of the green transition and the goal of […]
Canada: Widespread problems wreak havoc on the country’s largest telecommunications company
Rogers Group, Canada’s largest telecommunications company, announced late Friday that it has begun to restore its network outage that lasted 19 hours and affected banking, transportation, access to government websites. Almost every facet of daily life in Canada was affected by this outage, as mobile and landline phones were knocked out and internet access was […]
A new regulation is coming to the landline and internet market
By Fotis Fotinos A new regulation is coming to the fixed telephony and internet market, as the competent independent Authority, EETT, has announced that it is conducting a public consultation until September 9, as part of the fifth cycle of analysis of electronic communications markets and concerns the markets. The public consultation concerns the wholesale […]
PPC: The program for telecommunications, smart meters and photovoltaics on the roof
By the end of the summer, 15,000 households and businesses in Peristeri will be connected to ultra-high Internet speeds with the Fiber to the Home (FttH) network developed by PPC, while in less than four years the company will connect more than 3 million homes and businesses across the country. At the same time, the […]
Vodafone ‘shift’ to alternative revenue
By Fotis Fotinos Telecommunications are evolving, telecommunications are changing, telecommunications are expanding. The vision for the transformation of Vodafone Greece into a “tech-com” company was presented by the President and CEO of the company, Haris Broumidis. Mr. Broumidis’ speech made clear the effort to strengthen the company’s revenues from alternative sources, such as the ICT […]
EETT calls for bigger steps in the development of ‘optical fiber at home’ and 5G
The need for faster implementation of FTTH / FTTP connections and 5G networks in Europe was highlighted by the President of EETT and Vice President of BEREC, Professor Konstantinos Masselos. Mr. Masselos, in a meeting organized by ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association), referred to the ambitious goals set in the framework of the European […]
‘Safari’ of EETT in telecommunication companies
By Fotis Fotinos The National Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) continues to control audits of telecommunications companies at a steady pace. Over the past 15 months, the Independent Authority has conducted 36 inspections and autopsies on network infrastructure and 400 on-site inspections at landline / mobile and internet service providers’ stores. The aim was to […]
Reversals on three fronts in mobile and fixed telephony
Costas Kietsietzis Competition is on the rise in all key markets in which telecommunications groups operate. Installed players make new commercial policy moves, doubling speeds and freeing up talk time on mobile. At the same time, new international “players” are coming to pay-TV, who are not even obliged to pay the same taxes. The speeds […]