Allot Ltd. (Nasdaq: ALLT), the Israel-based traffic management specialist, has posted first-quarter revenues up 4.4% year-on-year to US$29.5 million, while its net loss was reduced to zero, from a loss of $0.4 million a year earlier. The vendor says that it received 18 "large orders" in the first quarter, three of which were from new customers. It also completed the acquisition of security company Optenet. (See Allot Reports Q1 Sales Growth and Allot to Acquire Optenet for $6.5M.)

Orange (NYSE: FTE) has been told by the Spanish competition authority that it must offer rival operator MasMovil access to its 4G network within the next ten days, reports Reuters.

The European Commission 's competition chief has admitted that regulators will miss their own deadline for the completion of their investigations into the tax arrangements of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) and Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN), among others. Bloomberg reports that Margrethe Vestager is unwilling to "sacrifice the rule of law or the quality" of the regulators' work by trying to meet the original, mid-year deadline. (See Eurobites: EC to Charge Apple With Illegal Tax Deals in Ireland.)

Spain's Abertis is expecting to raise €2.14 billion ($2.4 billion) from the listing of its Cellnex Telecoms radio masts business. Its share offering now stands at 66% of Cellnex's equity capital. (See Abertis Looks to IPO for Euro Expansion.)

The CEO of Telekom Austria Group , Hannes Ametsreiter, has expressed his bafflement at why the European Commission thinks it needs so many competing operators in the EU. In an interview with the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) , Ametsreiter says: "While in the States there are five operators and in China there are three, we have more than 150 in Europe. Why is it a necessity for example that two million Slovenians have more operators than one billion Chinese?"

Telecom Italia (TIM) has turned to Canada's Sandvine Inc. and its customer experience management expertise to generate key performance indicators for its fixed and mobile networks in Italy. (See Telecom Italia Uses Sandvine to Enhance CEM.)

— Paul Rainford, Assistant Editor, Europe, Light Reading