Who owns eircom

Facebook Twitter Email Whatsapp. Facebook Twitter Email. He pledged Business Newsletter Read the leading stories from the world of business. Ronaldo makes young fan's day at the Aviva. Frightening images show boy jumping between storey apartment blocks. Iliad owns a number of telecom firms, including in its home country of France, but also in Italy, as well as in smaller markets such as Ireland.

Iliad was the non-State owned pioneer which shook up the French market more than two decades ago with its low-cost cable TV and internet services. And the industry has fallen out of favour with equity investors in recent years as it gears up for big spending on 5G wireless and fibre networks. Rock-bottom interest rates have made it cheaper for owners to withdraw their businesses from the constant scrutiny of equity markets.

News and analysis on business, money and jobs from Munster and beyond by our expert team of business writers. A lunchtime summary of content highlights on the Irish Examiner website. Delivered at 1pm each day. Our mobile division operates under the eir Mobile and GoMo brands. In addition, our wholesale division, open eir, is the largest wholesale operator in Ireland, providing products and services to more than 70 national wholesale customers and 25 international wholesale customers, across a range of regulated and unregulated markets.

We are committed to working responsibly. We are the largest provider of fixed line telecommunications services in Ireland, offering broadband, voice, TV and data services to individual consumers and business users. Drahi took his Altice Europe vehicle private in January, partly as a way to avoid paying for promised stock buybacks and focus his spending on reducing debt and network investments.

Germany's Oliver Samwer is also attempting to take his tech incubator Rocket Internet off the stock market. Iliad's shares have lost almost a third of their value in the past 12 months. The industry has fallen out of favor with equity investors in recent years as it gears up for big spending on 5G wireless and fiber networks.

While they are needed for carriers to remain competitive, national regulators are likely to limit returns on those investments. The pandemic-driven surge in home working has driven home the importance of the networks that drive the digital economy, yet phone companies' profits have barely budged due to fixed-price data plans and fierce competition.