Investment and M&A

Orange has played down – but not denied – a report that it is in talks to buy unwilling target Bouygues Telecom. It...

South Africa’s Vodacom and Neotel have reached a modified agreement to address spectrum access concerns. A spokesperson has declined comment on whether this would...

Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo has said the company would look at Yahoo’s core internet business under the right circumstances. He also...

The long-awaited merger between Axtel and Alestra has moved a step closer to reality, now that the players have completed due...

New Zealand telco Spark has agreed to buy IT infrastructure and services firm Computer Concepts for some NZ$50m (US$33.2m) in an effort to boost...

India’s Reliance Communications has signed a non-binding agreement to sell its tower assets and related infrastructure to US-based telecoms infrastructure investment firm Tillman...

Former Orange CEO Sanjiv Ahuja, backed by private equity firm TPG Capital, has reportedly emerged as the most likely buyer of Indian telco Reliance...

Malaysia’s Axiata Group Berhad plans to invest up to US$200m in towers in Myanmar in an effort to capitalise on the country’s...

In the wake of a tough year which has claimed the heads of MTN’s group CEO, South Africa CEO and now Nigeria CEO, the company...

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...