Global EM Telcos Why are governments allowing mobile price hikes?

We note EM Governments & regulators appear to have become much more relaxed about mobile ARPU growing above inflation relative to the recent past. Why is this? This note gives one possible explanation.

Benelux Morning Notes

Belgian telecoms: Telenet increases its fixed internet speed at unchanged price Colruyt: FY25/26F profitability guidance maintained despite market share loss Corbion: Keep Calm and Carry On Fagron: Acquires UCP, adding to its 503A health and wellness offering in California GBL: Planning ahead to deliver on its promise OCI: Limited details on Orascom merger, sales process for Nitrogen Europe ongoing TKH Group: Mixed emotions Wolters Kluwer: Launches UpToDate Expert AI

Benelux Morning Notes

B&S: Sarabel launches recommended all cash offer; Belgian Telecoms: Digi confirms possible minority stake disposal in Spain; market test for Flanders cooperation agreement due any time; Exor: Great companies outperforming the benchmark; PostNL: Feedback on Capital Markets Day event 2025 - new strategy and ambitions 2028; UCB: Encouraging P2a data for Galvokimig in Atopic Dermatitis; Wolters Kluwer: Accelerating share buyback programme and good start to 2H25

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Why you should be reading the Tariff Tracker – a leading SR indicator

We publish monthly front book pricing data in our Tariff Tracker product. In this report we show some new analysis looking at how front book tariffs are a good leading indicator for service revenue trends in mobile and fixed, including new work looking at discounted and undiscounted prices.

Moody's Ratings assigns Baa3 rating to Vodafone's new hybrid notes due...

Moody's Ratings (Moody's) has today assigned a Baa3 rating to the two EUR-denominated hybrid securities both with maturity in 2055 to be issued by Vodafone Group Plc (Vodafone or the company). The outlook is unchanged at stable. RATINGS RATIONALE The Baa3 rating assigned to the new hybrids is on...

Benelux Morning Notes

Belgian telcos: Football rights negotiations between DAZN and Proximus resume. Eurocommercial Properties: CMD Feedback. EVS: Adds another small acquisition to its new ‘media robotics' segment. Kinepolis: Paramount Skydance reportedly to bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Wolters Kluwer: Two CEOs, one strong AI story

Global EM Telcos & Towers Continuing strong: NSR GEM Top-10 September...

August was a rather eventful month for two of top picks as LILAC announced the Puerto Rican asset separation and Kyivstar, the Ukraine arm of VEON, successfully listed on the NASDAQ (see our initiation HERE). All of our top picks performed well again. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space. We make our first change to the list, swapping TIM Brasil for Telefonica Brasil.

GEM/Japan Telcos Starlink – What impact might it have in Global EM, J...

Following on from the recent report by our European colleagues on the potential impact Starlink is likely to have on broadband in Europe, we look at markets outside of Europe: EM, Japan, Singapore and Australia.

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ODDO : Takeaways from Q2 2025 French telecoms

Tele Columbus (Overweight) Q2 2025: Reiteration of guidance a positiv...

Tele Columbus has reported a reassuring set of Q2 results, with broadband subscriber trends recovering and the full-year guidance largely re-confirmed – after the “temporary” withdrawal after the Q1 results caused unneeded stress.

ODDO : Les enseignements du T2 2025 en France

Benelux Morning Notes

Belgian telcos: Digi co-owner Citymesh seeks €60m to finance medium-term ambitions. DEME Group: One-off items disturb the picture. D'Ieteren: TVH CEO steps down

Vodafone Group: 1 director

A director at Vodafone Group sold after exercising options/sold 871,500 shares at 87p and 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 t...

Benelux Morning Notes

Belgian telcos: Telenet small positive net adds, good financials, guidance up. Kinepolis: US Cinemark strong, 5% growth in US tickets, consumption per visitor. KPN: VodafoneZiggo 2Q25 very weak, guidance maintained. PostNL: 2Q25 beats underlying slightly; FY25 guidance reiterated, EU court appeal

Benelux Morning Notes

Alfen: Preview - muddling through? Belgian telcos: Competition Authority investigation on Proximus/Orange Belgium MoU. Brunel International: 2Q25 below, 3Q25 outlook cut, cost savings protect FY25 estimates. Euronext: Another record set of results. Fugro: Sharper V-shape? GBL: Weak NAV performance, as expected. KBC Ancora: Cooperative CERA increasing its stake to 51.24%, using excess cash. UCB: Renewed US threats to cut drug prices. Umicore: 1H25 and guide broadly in-line, new S...