Government and Legal

Indian telco Reliance Communications (RCom) has won approval from the country’s competition commission to acquire smaller rival Sistema Shyam Teleservices, the...

Ooredoo has named new senior executives at both group and Qatar country level, following a number of departures towards the end...

Merger activity in 2015 was at its highest level in years, and competition authorities in the U.S. and European Union...

Mexican regulator IFT will, in March, review the impact of the country’s ground-breaking reforms to the telecoms sector two years...

Mexican telecoms giant América Móvil has bid Ps2.1bn (US$114.8m) in the country’s AWS spectrum auction, about double that spent by recent market...

Russia-focused telco Vimpelcom has agreed to pay US$795m to settle US and Dutch claims related to bribery in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, the US Department...

Singapore has outlined the framework for its upcoming multi-band spectrum auction, setting a starting bid price of S$35m (US$24.92m) for...

South African fixed-line incumbent Telkom is in partnership talks with state-owned fibre provider Broadband Infraco, which is tasked with deploying infrastructure in underserved...

Telecom Italia has presented its three-year strategic plan, which will see it double fibre coverage from the current 42% to 84%...

France’s Orange expects it will take “at least several” more weeks to agree a deal to buy smaller rival Bouygues Telecom as negotiations are...