BSkyB acquires Telefonica’s UK broadband assets
UK-based satellite broadcaster BSkyB has agreed to buy Telefonica’s local consumer fixed line businesses in a deal worth up to £200m. ...
Month: February 2013
Reshetnev and Thales finally form Russian manufacturing JV
European satellite manufacturers Thales Alenia Space and ISS Reshetnev are to form a Russia-based joint venture sixteen months after they ...
Oligarch acquires stake in Rostelecom
Konstantin Maloffev’s Marshall Capital Partners has agreed to sell its entire 10.7% stake in Rostelecom to billionaire Arkady Rotenberg’s Bellared ...
Rogers offers US$1bn notes
Canadian operator Rogers Communications has priced US$1bn notes at par in a public offering. The two-tranche issue consists of US$500m ...
Charter out with US$1bn two-tranche issue
US cableco Charter Communications has priced a private offering of US$1bn senior secured notes split equally into two tranches. The ...
MTNL plans bonds to raise over US$550m
Indian state-owned telco Mahanagar Telephone Nigam (MTNL) is reportedly looking to raise up to Rs30bn (US$556.8m) by issuing ten-year bonds. ...
AT&T prices US$500m notes
US incumbent AT&T has priced US$500m of 1.4% global notes maturing 2017. The issue is part of the same series ...
Paulson to vote against MetroPCS/T-Mobile USA merger
The largest shareholder in MetroPCS will vote against the operator’s reverse merger with Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile USA. Paulson & ...
New CFO at Telecom NZ
Telecom New Zealand has appointed Jolie Hodson as its new CFO, effective from June 2013. She succeeds Nick Olson, whose ...
Telefonica sells UK broadband business to BSkyB
British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) has agreed to buy Telefonica UK’s O2 and BE consumer broadband and fixed-line telephony business ...
