🇨🇭 Switzerland is a true outlier in mobile data monetisation with high usage *and* high revenue. Newly reported Swiss 2024 stats added to Tefficient's 1H 2025 report: tefficient.com/arpu-growth-...

There's not yet any "Fibre Road" in Denmark although that infrastructure is today as key as e.g. electricity and telephony that have plenty of named roads named in Denmark. fiberalliancen.dk/nyheder/danm...

Finland: GlobalConnect continues its journey to become a pure wholesale provider by selling most of its consumer retail fibre customers (10k) to Telia. Telia is already active as an ISP on top of GlobalConnect's fibre. www.sttinfo.fi/tiedote/7162...

Italian telcos are now colour labelling 5G and fixed broadband based on definitions by regulator AGCOM - here some examples: Highest 5G speed and availability is labelled green - and fibre is also labelled green

Age has an impact on the mobile data usage, DNA research shows corporate.dna.fi/press-releas...

Merry Christmas to all - but the 46% of countries that ended up to the left where ARPU fell although mobile data usage typically grew tefficient.com/arpu-growth-...

Tefficient's 46th analysis of mobile data usage and revenue "ARPU growth softens further as mobile data usage growth slows in half of the countries" is now available for download. tefficient.com/arpu-growth-...

5G represented 27.7% of the total mobile data traffic of the UK in July 2025, reports @ofcom.bsky.social. 5G sites grew by 26% y-o-y. Interesting new stat: Nearly one third of the traffic was 5G standalone in July 2025. www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-and-b...

Just the president of the United States rationalizing that a Washington Post reporter was basically asking to be murdered and cut to pieces with a bone saw because of his reporting. As he sits next to the thug who ordered it.

The 1800 MHz frequency auction in Sweden ends on its first day. 25 MHz to Net4Mobility (Tele2/Telenor) for 466 MSEK and 10 MHz to Telia for 186 MSEK. 3 Sweden participated too, but didn't get any frequencies. pts.se/nyheter-och-...

Sweden: Telia was the MNO with the lowest share of traffic on 5G in the first half of 2025 after leadership in 2H 2023. Telenor leading, but its network mate Tele2 has a much lower share. '3' second highest.

Putting all Nordic mobile providers into one chart - for mobile consumer satisfaction - shows just how low the satisfaction is with the Swedish main brands. Situation worsened in 2025. But Sweden is also winning - with Vimla and Fello. Data from EPSI/Svenskt kvalitetsindex.

After failed 4th MNO entry, government pressure on prices, and severe security breaches, South Korean 5G usage reaches a new high in August with 33.4 GB per 5G subscription. Never ever has the total mobile data traffic grown faster YoY than it did in August.

We wonder how this new metric, "FTTH % of base" is defined by Telekom/DT, because based on DT's own reporting, FTTH should only be 11.7% of fixed broadband retail base. If we apply your reported FTTH net adds to the base reported in Q1 2024 (1091k), it sums up to 1761k. 16.1% would mean 2431k.

Bravo, Telia Sverige www.mynewsdesk.com/se/telia/new...

[email protected] consolidates IoT operations into Telenor Connexion, using the "Telenor IoT" brand. But not quite: "The Nordic business units ... will continue providing IoT connectivity and 5G private network services for their key segments." www.telenor.com/media/newsro...

Stockholmers now have the fastest median mobile download among the Nordic cities listed by Ookla. Stockholm is city #11 globally.

With 5G outdoor coverage rollout soon completed and fibre rollout slowing, Nordic operators have passed peak CAPEX to revenue

Seems inspired by Denmark's CBB Mix (CBB is a flanker brand of Telenor Denmark) www.cbb.dk/shop/mobilab...

Tele2's management chaos continues following Iliad's entry as largest shareholder. Now the B2C CCO that Iliad recruited nine months ago, Petr Cermak, will be replaced by Nicholas Högberg who led 3 Sweden until 2016. www.tele2.com/media/news/2...

Tele2 has since October 8 introduced a manual step in the otherwise automated Swedish mobile number porting. Competitors Telia, @3sverige.bsky.social, and Telenor have all written to regulator PTS asking them to take action. Scoop by Telekomnyheterna: www.telekomnyheterna.se/pub/viewStart

The introduction of 5G FWA in fiber-rich France has been a success: Number of subscriptions +25% y-o-y while the FWA traffic +38%.

Q3 is the best FWA net add quarter so far - but, as suggested in the post, Verizon is a bit squeezed by AT&T and T-Mobile. What's not shown is that Verizon does well in business FWA, not so good in consumer. FWA represented 3.6% of Verizon's total mobile service revenue in Q3.

Survey by RTR: Only 58% of Austrian households say they have fixed broadband (and FTTH is overestimated to27% when the correct is 13%). 44% of households use FWA ("Cube"). www.rtr.at/TKP/aktuelle...

Here's a graph on that

Nokia+NVIDIA = ❤️ www.nokia.com/newsroom/ins...

36% of the data traffic in 1H 2025 was 5G - up from 24% a year earlier @traficomfinland.bsky.social

The mobile data traffic growth in Finland (excl. FWA) was only 1.6% between 1H 2024 and 1H 2025. The fixed data traffic for 1H 2025 isn't reported yet. @traficomfinland.bsky.social

Jio overtook T-Mobile as the operator with the largest FWA base in the world already last quarter. After this quarter, it's no longer questionable. Have in mind that India has 4x the US population and T-Mobile meets more FWA and broadband competition.

If we read it right, this is how the employee base of Tele2 Group developed since just before Iliad took over as its largest shareholder

Telia Norway now has more fibre+FWA subscriptions than HFC (cable) subscriptions - and you can see in their Q3 presentation that they can't wait to get out of cable. www.teliacompany.com/assets/u5c1v...

Link www.opensignal.com/2025/10/21/g...

AT&T continues to accelerate its FWA (AT&T Internet Air) net adds. Our graph suggests that AT&T FWA aggressiveness hits Verizon, but not T-Mobile. investors.att.com/financial-re...

Tele2 Sweden will now fight churn by cutting the number of independent retailers it works with across both consumer and business. Tele2 will instead invest in its own channels. www.tele2.com/files/New-St...

[email protected] adds 36k mobile subscriptions (net) in Q3 with total revenue growth of 4.2%. As usual, service revenue growth (excl. I/C) is faster, 8.1%. EBITDA grew at about the same pace as total revenue, 4.8%. 3 Denmark with similar trends. www.investorab.com/investors-me...

The auction ended quickly - a bargain: "EE, O2 and VodafoneThree each won 800 MHz of spectrum in the 26 GHz band and 1 GHz of spectrum in the 40 GHz band. They have committed to pay £13m each for this spectrum." (Assignment stage remains) www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/spe...

But is it a first? AT&T has since some time offered AT&T Turbo for 7 USD per month giving priority over those not having it.

*flanker

Norway with a target of 100% of households having access to 1 Gbit/s broadband by 2030 seems to be in conflict with that now: It redirects 400 MNOK from fibre rollout support to support for safety and resilience www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/j...

Bouygues, Iliad and Orange now agree how to chop up SFR (Altice France) www.iliad.fr/media/CP_141...

UK: The mmWave auction in 26 and 40 GHz between EE, O2 and VodafoneThree will start tomorrow. It'll be interesting to see what the valuation of the 5.4 GHz auctioned spectrum will be. www.ofcom.org.uk/spectrum/spe...

TDC NET and Nuuday (both ex-TDC) now have one and the same chairman. She says that Danish telcos face to spend billions of DKK on capacity and resilience. To afford it, authorities will have to cut regulation, while consumers have to accept higher prices. www.berlingske.dk/virksomheder...

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...

This is for business customers, not consumers.

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...

Smart av @3sverige.bsky.social att använda Telavox växellösning i sin nya tjänst "3Koppla" för Telavox är helt enkelt bäst. Därför dumt att 3 inte nämner Telavox i release eller på hemsida. Hat tip Telekomnyheterna som berättar i dagens nyhetsbrev. www.mynewsdesk.com/se/tre/press...

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...