The University of London has lost a Court of Appeal attempt to block a new mobile phone mast that would have served Vodafone's London HQ.

Cornerstone Telecommunications, which is jointly owned by Vodafone and Telefónica (parent firm of O2 UK), saw off the university's attempt to overthrow an earlier judgment giving them the right to inspect a student halls' roof with a view to putting a new mast on it.

When Cornerstone asked the university in 2018 if it could poke around the roof of Lillian Penson Hall , across the road from Paddington Station, the academic institution refused –

Analysis At this year's Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Berlin, the opening ceremony, featuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel, was immediately followed by an hour-long session on the “future of internet governance.”

That session, held yesterday morning, featured seven internet luminaries on stage, including “father of the internet” and founding president of the Internet Society Vint Cerf, as well as Goran Marby, the CEO of DNS overseer ICANN.

Audience members were invited to ask questions through an online portal for others to upvote, with the results displayed in real time. Toward the end of the session, a moderator and the chairman

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Vodafone has inked a deal with BT's Openreach to expand its gigabit broadband network by 500,000 premises – on top of its existing deal with alternative network provider CityFibre for 5 million premises.

From spring 2020 Vodafone will begin using Openreach's Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) pipes in Birmingham, Bristol and Liverpool, intended to reach 500,000 premises by mid-2021.

Voda is already rolling out gigabit broadband in 12 locations via its agreement with CityFibre. In 2017 it signed a deal for one million homes to get full fibre by 2021, with plans to extend that to another four million in 50 locations by

Vodafone reported a loss of €1.9bn (£1.6bn) in its latest half-year results ended 30 September , chalked up mainly to India's decision to change the way it charges telcos for using airwaves.

In October, India's Supreme Court ruled against the industry in a dispute over the calculation of licensing and other regulatory fees, with Vodafone now liable "for very substantial demands", it said.

Overall revenue rose 0.4 per cent to €21.94bn (c £18.84bn), while sales in the UK were flat at €2.45bn (c £2.1bn) and EBITDA fell 0.8 per cent to €658m (c £565m).

The company blamed its sluggish performance