Government and Legal

Australia's antitrust authority has given the green light to ISP Vocus Communications' acquisition of its larger rival M2 Group, despite...

Cellcom has gone ahead with a takeover of Golan Telecom, despite regulatory and government resistance to a combination that would...

As Liberty Global nears its "put up or shut up" deadline to formalise an offer for Caribbean telco CWC, European authorities need more...

VimpelCom has made a provision of US$900m as it braces itself for potential liabilities as it is the subject of multiple...

Squire Patton Boggs has added the former CEO of Austrian telecoms regulator RTR and an ex-ETNO director general to its public policy practice...

An in-depth investigation into CK Hutchison's proposed tie-up was expected given the EC’s previous examinations of in-market mobile mergers, and follows...

Norway’s government has no confidence in Telenor chairman Svein Aaser after receiving new information about corruption allegations against VimpelCom in Uzbekistan, less than a month after Telenor announced...

BT’s £12.5bn acquisition of mobile operator EE has been provisionally approved by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority despite rivals’ concerns about...

The CEO of Telecom Italia has said there needs to be clarity around fixed-line concessions before any merger of its Brazilian subsidiary TIM...

As potential suitors line up to assess an acquisition of Israeli operator Golan Telecom, a meeting of the ministries of finance...