BEAD: Louisiana releases final proposal

Louisiana was the second state to release their final proposal at the end of last week. Virginia just beat Louisiana and was the first. Louisiana Local Fiber Consortium, which includes T-Mobile, was the big winner again. Surprisingly, Comcast was the only large Cable operator among the winners. The ILECs won less than we expected. Fiber continues to be the technology of choice for BEAD. In this short note, we discuss the proposal, compare the results with our estimates from Broadband Insights da...

InsiderInsights Weekly Report: August 9, 2025

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CHTR Quick Hit: Charter Buys Back $0.5BN of Shares in July

Advance/Newhouse filed their latest Charter ownership disclosure today. The buyback amount was slightly lower than expected but given that we are only one month into the quarter, we are keeping our estimates for 3Q25 unchanged.

Charter Communications Inc: 1 director

A director at Charter Communications Inc sold 162,694 shares at 378.500USD and the significance rating of the trade was 67/100. 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 ...

Vodafone Group: 1 director

A director at Vodafone Group maiden bought 138,055 shares at 83p and the significance rating of the trade was 63/100. 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 clea...

InsiderInsights.com Daily Ratings Report: August 4, 2025

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Autumn for Broadband 2Q25

In this installment of our Autumn for Broadband series, we provide a quick update on trends in the broadband market based on what we have seen from the companies that have reported so far. Net adds remained nearly flat compared to a year ago (when adjusted for ACP impact) but were within the pre-pandemic norm. Industry subscriber trends have mostly stabilized over the past 3 quarters, but y/y growth remains below pre-pandemic levels.

InsiderInsights Weekly Report: August 2, 2025

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Intel's NEX could see Ericsson stake

Global EM Telcos & Towers Another monster month: NSR GEM Top-10 Augus...

Our top picks performed very strongly again in July, marked by a strong recovery from VEON, Millicom and IHS Towers alongside continued momentum at Singtel and Airtel Africa. Heading into earnings season, we continue to see the EM Telco cycle in an upswing. This note also includes key news & other thoughts, to try to help investors generate alpha within the EM Telco space. In our view, our picks remain undervalued, so we make no changes to the list.

InsiderInsights.com Daily Ratings Report: July 31, 2025

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Charter Results Review & Model Update

This note belatedly covers 2Q results and model update. We also provide thoughts on EBITDA growth for the year along with other industry / Charter-specific themes emerging from the results. The major changes to the model are higher broadband losses and lower EBITDA in 2025. FCF is higher. We are close to consensus on EBITDA and slightly above on FCF. Our near-term price target is $450 (+60%).

Traction in the Land of the Rising Sun

2026 AI Capex, HBM Pricing, Auto Semi Recovery, and more.

As always, during earnings season, we wrap-up what happened in the previous week. For our main takes summarized on a single slide, and a few words on each of the 22 names we followed last week, follow the link below.

US capex: fibre grabs more share

New Cable MVNO – implications for Cable and Mobile operators

Charter and Comcast announced that they have signed an MVNO with T-Mobile that will target new business customers (here). In this quick note we provide thoughts on implications for Verizon, T-Mobile, Charter, Comcast, and the industry more broadly.

H20 ban, TSMC beats, ASML cautious, Auto pull-ins, RAN muted. Our week...

As always, during earnings season, we wrap-up what happened in the previous week. For our main takes summarized on a single slide, and a few words on each of the 4 names we followed last week, follow the link below.

Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson: 1 director

A director at Telefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson bought 7,444,454 shares at 72.520SEK and the significance rating of the trade was 68/100. 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 ...

There is more Cable and Fiber M&A coming

This report provides a detailed update to our fiber forecast, with implications for the Fiber and Cable operators. The analysis suggests a strong incentive for Mobile and Cable operators to continue to consolidate assets. The analysis leverages the latest release of FCC data coupled with new features and data sets that have been built into Broadband Insights.

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