Government and Legal

Former MTN CEO Phuthuma Nhleko's Nigerian charm offensive has worked, and he is likely to seek a further lowering of the...

Carlos Slim’s América Móvil plans to begin trading shares in tower spinoff Telesites on the Mexican Stock Exchange on 21 December, having finally secured regulatory...

TeliaSonera has moved to combine its fixed-line and mobile operations in Latvia, two months after agreeing a similar housekeeping move in...

South Korea’s smallest mobile operator LG Uplus has reportedly claimed that incumbent SK Telecom’s planned merger with CJ Hellovision is illegal, calling it an attempt to...

Activity remains high for towercos present in Myanmar, as the country's three licence holders race to cover 90% of the population.  Telenor...

Meinrad Spenger, an Austrian national and former McKinsey executive, co-founded Másmóvil alongside Christian Nyborg, a Norwegian Ericsson alumnus. The two have set out...

MTN executive chairman Phuthuma Nhleko will now need to lobby Nigeria's president directly, as he fights to renegotiate a painful US$5.2bn...

India’s third largest mobile operator Idea Cellular has agreed to buy the rights to spectrum in two service areas from smaller rival Videcon...

Telecom Italia CEO Marco Patuano has told the Italian Parliament that his company can reap €3bn in 2016, making a...

India’s Supreme Court has reportedly told Vodafone to pay the Department of Telecommunications Rs20bn (US$301m) for a licence to merge several local...