UPC Ireland’s acquisition of wifi provider Bitbuzz helped the teleco to achieve 8% revenue growth in the first quarter of the year.

A company should be allowed track the movement of its van drivers by satellite, the Labour Court has ruled.

Telecoms company UPC Ireland is to shed as many as 170 jobs across its facilities as part of a cost-cutting programme.

UPC Ireland lost almost 7,000 customers in the nine months to the end of March but saw the total number of subscriptions increase in the same period.

Half a million UPC customers are to be hit with a price hike from next month — the second increase by the company in less than 12 months.