The German government launched a "Das beste Internet" campaign promoting fibre. Background: The fibre take-up in Germany has been surprisingly low even though fibre now is available to 53% of the households. das-beste-internet.de

Interesting: Verizon buys Starry, a provider of mmWave FWA to multi-dwelling units (MDUs) with 100,000 customers. Maybe there's life in mmWave after all in spite of failures in e.g. South Korea and with smartphone manufactures opting out? www.verizon.com/about/news/v...

Sweden with the fastest train Wi-Fi in Europe www.ookla.com/articles/tra...

This is for business customers, not consumers.

Telenor Sweden launches 5G FWA with an availability guarantee of at least 99% as complement to existing best effort 5G FWA offers. No price points indicated. Seems not to be based on 5G standalone or slicing as neither is mentioned. news.cision.com/se/telenor-s...

The usual suspects are the only qualified to participate in the upcoming mmWave (26 and 40 GHz) auction in the UK. www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/spe...

Vestberg steps down as Verizon CEO immediately www.verizon.com/about/news/v...

Rather disastrous customer satisfaction results in Swedish SKI for consumer mobile in 2025: Lowest overall in ten years. Main brands, particularly @3sverige.bsky.social collapsing while flankers Vimla, @comviq.bsky.social, and Fello break the trend and improve. www.kvalitetsindex.se/branschunder...

Swedish regulator PTS delays its decision on new regulation of fiber access to 2026 after heavy criticism from most of the 60 network owners that were proposed to be SMP designated. pts.se/nyheter-och-...

The Nordics countries do not do as great in 5G as it does for mobile overall incl. 4G, but in Opensignal's new 5G Global Mobile Network Experience Awards, DNA and Tele2/Telenor Sweden are global winners. www.opensignal.com/2025/09/30/5...

With this, Finland in 2024 spent the highest proportion of total investments on fixed in the Nordics, 63%. The proportion is similar in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, though.

Finland: Investments into fixed networks continued to grow quickly in 2024, with 29% more invested compared to 2023. Fibre rollout is the main driver. Whereas investments into fixed network (497 MEUR) never was higher, mobile network investments peaked in 2021 and fell 12% in 2024.

One more Norwegian operator separates its fixed and mobile business: Lyse Tele will split its consumer business in two parts: One Altibox division for fixed broadband and one Ice division for mobile, reports Telecom Revy. www.telecomrevy.no/altibox-fibe...

Norlys today communicates that it will lay off 137 employees in its customer organisation responsible for energy and telecom: via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddel... Compared to what was communicated just a month ago - 10% of 2450 employees, i.e. 245 - today's number is much lower.

"In practice, Finnish municipalities do not grant permits for microtrenching at all" ficom.fi/news/microtr...

In an interview with ITWatch, Sinal's (new name of Norlys fiber network biz) CEO says it will invest about 800 MDKK per year although the total investments of the Danish industry fell in 2024 compared to 2021, 2022, 2023. He wants to see the take rate grow from 50% to 80%. itwatch.dk/ITNyt/Strate...

Latvia: Tefficient study reveals that LMT customers are the fifth most active mobile data users in the world, and the second most active in Europe kursors.lv/2025/09/22/t...

Who provides the best fixed in the Nordics? Compiled from Speedtest Connectivity Reports 1H 2025 www.ookla.com/research/rep...

Who has the best mobile network in the Nordics? Our graph compares the Speedtest Connectivity Score for 1H 2025 Based on www.ookla.com/research/rep...

Fiberalliancen has now made the fifth annual price benchmark of consumer fibre pricing - as done by Tefficient - public. The covered countries are: BE, DK, FI, FR, NL, NO, UK, SE. Download the analysis from the "Links" box in the right hand column of the page fiberalliancen.dk/nyheder/danm...

Grand slam for Telenor in Ookla Speedtest - winning most mobile categories in Finland, Sweden, and Norway in 1H 2025. www.ookla.com/research/rep... www.ookla.com/research/rep... www.ookla.com/research/rep...

EMEA’s mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth – Tefficient - By @simondux.bsky.social in Mobile Europe www.mobileeurope.co.uk/emeas-mobile...

"Danish fiber prices for consumers are the lowest in the Nordics", writes Jan Horsager in ITWatch referring to a new analysis by Tefficient soon to be published by Fiberalliancen. Comments by Fiberalliancen's @digitalagenda.bsky.social in the article. itwatch.dk/ITNyt/Result...

Report: GlobalConnect now for sale www.reuters.com/technology/b...

Who should pay for NIS2? The Swedish government proposes that the state will - but *not* when it comes to telecom; there (and only there) the telecom sector should pay. Key Swedish industry players think that they (too) should not pay. www.di.se/debatt/reger...

New report: 69% of operators managed to turn increased mobile data usage into ARPU growth. 31% did not and they tend to have low-usage customers. You do not want to be in the bottom left corner of Tefficient's Xmas tree graph. tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

New report: The relationship between mobile data usage and ARPU. Zain Kuwait has the highest ARPU but also the highest usage. Telenor Norway has the second highest ARPU while its usage is the 69th highest usage. tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

New report: Cheapest mobile data at MTN Irancell, Jio India, and Airtel India. Most expensive mobile data at KPN the Netherlands, Telenor Norway, and MTN Uganda. tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

New report: 116 operators ranked after mobile data traffic tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

Europe: DNA Finland leads in mobile data usage, followed by LMT Latvia, Elisa Finland, 3/Drei Austria, and Bite Latvia tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

New report: 116 operators ranked after mobile data usage. The top 20 starts with Zain Kuwait, Zain Saudi Arabia, and DNA Finland. tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

New report: 116 operators ranked after mobile data usage tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

Free VPN by Free (Iliad) France. Inclusive for all 4G/5G customers. www.iliad.fr/media/CP_160...

Lille antenneforening i åben krig med Norlys ekstrabladet.dk/forbrug/Tekn...

Since 2024 revenues now have been reported for Denmark and Czechia, we have updated our country analysis again. Both Denmark and Czechia end up on the right side in the Christmas tree graph with growing mobile data usage *and* ARPU. Download the updated report: tefficient.com/the-demand-f...

Kearney Telecom Health Index: Nordic countries win 5 of 6 categories in Europe. Norway healthiest, but "Financial performance" behind Sweden. Finland with best "Customer sentiment". Look at Denmark: Winning "Technology development" and "Business environment". www.kearney.com/industry/com...

The average US mobile subscription (incl. M2M, can't be taken out) consumed 19.4 GB per month in 2024, +26% YoY. FWA the most likely driver for this, but as CTIA only reports one giant traffic number this can't be proven. 5G share of base 45% (+6pp). Data-only (incl. M2M) devices 44% of base (+1pp).

New CTIA stats show that the accumulated number of cell sites in the US grew to 447,605 in 2024. The growth in the last years is almost entirely driven by small cells. The Dish/Boost/Echostar network have added a bit to the overall growth, but that network is now discontinuing.

New annual update of our mobile data usage and revenue analysis covering operators scheduled to be available 18 September at 8.00 CET. Last year's report: tefficient.com/mobile-data-...

TDC gets criticism: Bet on Huawei and now wants state to pay borsen.dk/nyheder/virk...

Sweden: The broadband rollout subsidy for 2025 is 740 MSEK. The applications sum up to 1200 MSEK this time, so not all get what they want. pts.se/nyheter-och-...

On how Ice's change of national roaming provider from Telia to Telenor affected the reported revenues of Telia and Telenor - by Stig Øyvann, Telecom Revy (subs. req.) with analysis by Tefficient www.telecomrevy.no/ice-roaminga...

This is how the coverage maps look for Telia, Tele2 and 3 this morning. Telenor seems not to have updated its but it should be the same as Tele2.

Tele2 and Telenor Sweden have now activated 5G on 700 MHz throughout its mobile network, hence matching 4G's population coverage of 99.9% with an area coverage of 90%. This takes Tele2/Telenor Sweden up to second place in the Nordics in communicated 5G coverage. www.tele2.com/sv/media/pre...

Norway's next emergency network will be built on commercial 5G networks. www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/r...

Bredbandskollen visar att 5G är överlägset i hastighet och att Telenor är snabbast. Med tanke på att Tele2 delar nät med Telenor måste det vara så att en Telenor-kund får högre prio än en Tele2-kund? Uppladdning är dock ingen styrka för mobilnät oavsett generation. www.bredbandskollen.se/statistik/

The trends of TDC NET (the network part of the old TDC) are negative for 1H 2025: Revenue -2.5% driven by broadband -5.6% (mobile +3.2%), EBITDA -2.5%, CAPEX -9.8% as TDC NET only adds 16k fibre homes passed in 1H 2025 (to 794k). TDC postponed its 2025 goal of 1M to 2028. tdcnet.com/investor-rel...

Denmark's largest fibre network Norlys (Sinal) may not buy EWII's fibre biz unless it makes sure that seven MDU associations get another provider. If not, they would only have one provider after the merger. kfst.dk/pressemeddel...

The Swedish Consumer Agency proposes to the government that all telesales should be forbidden in Sweden. If implemented, it would have a negative impact on telcos who still bring in surprisingly many customers this way. www.konsumentverket.se/aktuellt/kon...

"As a result of this transaction, elements of Boost Mobile's radio access network (RAN) will be decommissioned over time."