Mary Lennighan

The UK telco hit out at the incumbent for using its market dominance to poach wholesale customers, something it insists goes against the principles of Ofcom's recent market review. It also took the opportunity to beseech the authorities to clear its proposed acquisition of Netomnia via its Nexfibre unit, something the more cynical might say is the real goal of this latest outburst.

INWIT had requested a set of precautionary measures against its operator customer linked to the latter's decision in March to withdraw from the master services agreement that governs TIM's use of INWIT's mobile towers. But the Court of Milan ruled that the conditions for intervention were not met: there was no evidence of the need for urgency, essentially.

Counterpoint Research's figures show the steepest slide, with shipments falling by a noteworthy 11% year-on-year in Q2. The numbers are preliminary, but at this stage we're looking at the lowest second quarter shipment levels since 2013, the analyst firm said, which is far from good news for equipment makers. Or at least most of them. Numbers from Omdia reveal a more moderate decline; its analysts put the on-year shipment reduction at 4%.