{"id":1047353,"date":"2026-11-06T07:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T01:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047353"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T01:56:24","slug":"european-telcos-raise-payouts-as-earnings-improve-in-q3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/european-telcos-raise-payouts-as-earnings-improve-in-q3\/","title":{"rendered":"European telcos raise payouts as earnings improve in Q3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European telecom companies are raising shareholder payouts and nudging up forecast as stronger cash generation from network investments, cost cuts and consolidation begins to feed through to results. <\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s Deutsche Telekom raised its full-year earnings outlook for the third time this year on Thursday, after quarterly earnings beat analyst expectations. It also proposed a 10% dividend increase and announced plans for a share buyback of up to \u20ac2 billion ($2.25 billion) in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European telecom companies are raising shareholder payouts and nudging up forecast as stronger cash generation from network investments, cost cuts and consolidation begins to feed through to results. Germany&#8217;s Deutsche Telekom raised its full-year earnings outlook for the third time this year on Thursday, after quarterly earnings beat analyst expectations. It also proposed a 10% dividend increase and announced plans for a share buyback of up to \u20ac2 billion ($2.25 billion) in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047366,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047353\/revisions\/1047366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}