French incumbent Orange is eyeing Bulgaria’s largest telco Bulgarian Telecommunications Company, which trades as Vivacom. CEO delegate, finance and strategy Ramon Fernandez confirmed Orange’s...

Econet Wireless-owned pan-African fibre and satellite broadband provider Liquid Telecom has entered into a US$300m loan agreement to help finance its fibre expansion...

Swiss newspace startup ELSE is close to securing seed funding for its 64-nano satellite M2M constellation AstroCast that will cost US$50m to build and launch. Despite its operations being...

Xavier Niel-backed Singaporean ISP MyRepublic and Australian ISP TPG Telecom have pre-qualified to take part in Singapore’s new entrant spectrum auction,...

Russian telco Megafon has confirmed that it is in talks with local internet group Mail.ru that could see it become a shareholder...

Malaysia’s Axiata Group and India’s Bharti Airtel have completed the merger of their units in Bangladesh, marking the South Asian country’s first ever telecoms...

Canada’s UrtheCast aims to secure as much as C$250m (US$186m) in export credit agency-backed funding in the next few months for its...

British incumbent BT’s mobile unit EE has lost his MD for operations and strategy, Bruno Duarte (pictured), TelecomFinance has confirmed. His role has now...

State-owned incumbent Omantel is selling a majority stake in Pakistan’s loss-making Worldcall Telecom, its CEO Talal al-Mamari (pictured) has said. Al-Mamari was quoted...

Polish fixed-line operator Netia has hired Bogusław Kowalski as the new chair of its railway fibreco TK Telekom. Kowalski has over 20 years’ experience in managerial positions...