Strategy and Markets

Saudi Telecom (STC) has reportedly hired JP Morgan to consider increasing its stake in Türk Telekom’s largest shareholder Oger Telecom. The deal would help Oger Telecom...

Thai state-owned telcos CAT Telecom and TOT are reportedly discussing a merger of their mobile units. CAT president Sanpachai Huvanandana told Thai newspaper the Nation...

Megafon's board has approved the acquisition of a majority voting stake in local internet group Mail.ru for US$740m from billionaire Alisher Usmanov,...

India’s Reliance Communications has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its tower company for US$1.6bn, helping the debt-strapped firm shore up...

Japanese electronics maker TDK has agreed to buy US semiconductor firm InvenSense, which supplies sensors to smartphone makers including Apple and Samsung,...

Swedish private equity group EQT Partners has agreed to acquire Danish B2B data communications services provider GlobalConnect, aiming to take...

Irish incumbent telco Eir has appointed three telecoms veterans to its board, almost doubling its membership as it works to reduce...

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris' Orascom Telecom Media and Technology has agreed to sell its Middle East and North Africa submarine cable unit MENA-SCS to...

UK TMT investment fund Zegona’s northern Spain-based cableco Telecable is reportedly back in merger talks with Basque MVNO Euskaltel. The two regional players have been in informal...

American Tower and Dutch pension fund manager PGGM are set to enter the French market with a deal to buy local...