Investment and M&A

CS&L, the network REIT spun off by US telco Windstream in April 2015, has announced its first acquisition: tower backhaul and dark fibre...

Telecom Italia has reportedly begun M&A talks with Brazil’s third largest mobile operator, Oi, which is also the fixed-line incumbent. The Italian group...

A year after his company’s blockbuster US$2.6bn fundraising, IHS Towers co-founder Issam Darwish talks infrastructure sharing, regulation and consolidation. A...

Millicom has declined comment on a report that it is considering entering the Mexican market, which is undergoing a series of...

The Lebanese telecoms ministry has extended Zain and Orascom’s respective contracts to manage local mobile operators Touch and Alfa for another month, amid ongoing political uncertainty. The...

Vietnam is considering listing stakes in leading state-owned companies including Mobifone in 2016, finance ministry official Dang Quyet Tien has been...

TelecomFinance’s Guy Ferneyhough speaks to new Tele2 CEO Allison Kirkby, who was promoted from CFO to CEO at the start...

Indonesian mobile operator XL Axiata is to auction 2,000-2,500 towers later this month to pay down debt, it announced in a stock...

Verizon Communications has reportedly kicked off the sale of its data centres in a process potentially worth over US$2.5bn. Telcos, which...

Kazakhtelecom is to be sold in a public share offer as part of a broader privatisation plan covering 65 state-owned...