Xavier Niel

Eir chief executives don’t tend to last long in the job. The average tenure of the last five incumbents has been about four years. Was that in Carol(...)

Apple, whose shares soared by more than a third in 2021 amid booming demand for its new iPhone 13 and subscription services such as Apple TV+ and iCl(...)

Europe’s biggest telecommunications companies are finally abandoning their deal-making hesitancy. They may be too late to beat the kingpins of private(...)

Eir is planning to sell-off almost half its fibre network in Ireland in a deal that could net the group over €1 billion. The company, which is majori(...)

Billionaire entrepreneur Xavier Niel has launched a tender offer to take private Iliad, the French telecoms company he founded 22 years ago, in a surp(...)

Revenues at Virgin Media Ireland increased 3 per cent to €224 million in the first half of 2021, as the company saw data usage across its broadband n(...)

“We’ve never been good at it,” admits Eir boss Carolan Lennon about its customer service, the great casualty of the telecommunications age. Contacting(...)

Eir is sitting out the latest sports rights auctions and “exploring options” for Eir Sport. They don’t look great. If Eir Sport was a football game, (...)

Eir has said it will not take part in the latest rounds of sports rights auctions, citing fundamental changes to the commercial model for subscription(...)

European stocks closed lower on Thursday as a renewed rise in US bond yields and expectations of a jump in inflation hit investors’ appetite for risk,(...)