Month: October 2016

US buyout firm KKR and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) are reportedly in talks with Indian telco Bharti Airtel to acquire ...

South African telecoms giant MTN (JSE:MTN) has hired Ralph Mupita, CEO of Old Mutual Emerging Markets, as its new CFO, ...

SpaceX’s investigation into September’s launchpad explosion appears close to completion, an encouraging sign for the likes of Iridium Communications whose plans have been set ...

Russia’s largest mobile operator Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) intends to buy back up to Rbs10bn (US$157.7m) of its shares from majority shareholder ...

CenturyLink has agreed a US$34bn deal to buy Level 3 Communications to combine the target’s global connectivity backbone with its larger enterprise customer base. Explaining ...

Swedish telco Tele2 has completed its acquisition of local B2B telecoms services provider TDC Sweden, strengthening its position in the business segment. Tele2 has ...

New Zealand’s Commerce Commission has again raised concerns over the merger between local satellite pay-TV provider Sky Network Television and mobile operator Vodafone ...

Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s investment business LetterOne (L1) has made a strategic investment for an undisclosed sum in Qvantel, a Finnish cloud-based mobile ...

Swedish telco Tele2 has received shareholder approval for its planned SKr3bn (US$333.1m) rights issue, which it says will “maintain the company’s ...

US hedge funds Anchorage Capital Group and Davidson Kempner Capital Management and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are set to ...