Fiber to the Future – Broadband Trends; Infrastructure Wars; New ILEC Structures; New Financing; Copper Decommissioning; BEAD; Convergence

We just wrapped up the second day of the BCG and NSR Fiber to the Future Conference. The second day featured discussions with over 30 companies including Altice USA, AT&T, BT Group, Charter, Dycom, Deutsche Telekom, Frontier, Goldman Sachs, Liberty Global, Lumen, Recon Analytics, Shentel, TDS Telecom, Tillman Global, Tucows, and Verizon.

BT Group: 2 directors

Two Directors at BT Group bought 404,700 shares at 107p. The significance rating of the trade was 100/100. Is that information sufficient for you to make an investment decision? This report gives details of those trades and adds context and analysis to them such that you can judge whether these trading decisions are ones worth following. Included in the report is a detailed share price chart which plots discretionary trades by all the company's directors over the last two years clearly showing Close periods where trading activity is restricted under listing rules. The names of board member...

Virgin Media O2: Deeper dive on the disappointing outlook Liberty Global (Buy, $27, +35%), Telefonica (Buy, €4.9, +36%)

After the initial results out from Liberty Global last night, we get more detailed results this morning from VMO2, so we are able to further analyse the disappointing guidance given for VMO2 which implies a higher cost base than previously expected to support the current revenue trajectory. In this note, we dive deeper into the implications of this and what it means for Liberty Global and Telefonica.

Mitratel (Buy, TP: IDR1,135, +94%) Q1 24: Solid quarter

Mitratel reported a solid start to the year. Top line trends decelerated (last year’s Indosat towers acquisition has lapped) but remain solid.

Elisa (Neutral, TP: €54, +27%) Q1 24: EBITDA growth better than SR growth, but B2B EBITDA still negative y/y

Elisa reported good results, with stable service revenue growth (+3% YoY) but importantly an acceleration in clean EBITDA (to +6% y/y from +4% y/y in Q4). EBITDA growth was better than SR growth for the first time since Q3 2021. This is what the market wanted to see, as concerns have been around operational leverage;

Mobileye pre 1Q24 model update