Strategy and Markets

Sweden’s Tele2 and Kazakhtelecom have completed their mobile joint venture deal in Kazakhstan, creating a more robust player with some six million customers, equal...

T-Mobile US has spent at least US$1.1bn on 700 MHz spectrum licences so far this year as it seeks to expand...

BT must open up its poles and ducts for use by rival providers, enabling them to build their own competing fibre...

Telecom Italia has told Russian investor LetterOne Technology that it does not want to continue with talks about a potential merger between its...

MTN has bought 400km of domestic long distance and metro fibres from pan-African fibre provider Liquid Telecom, describing the move as a step...

Orange has until the end of March to negotiate a takeover of Bouygues Telecom, Martin Bouygues, CEO of conglomerate Bouygues, said today. Orange (EPA:ORA) has...

Deutsche Telekom has cancelled the sale of T-Mobile Netherlands, CEO Timotheus Höttges has said. The company had reportedly attracted interest from private equity...

Vivendi has upped its stake in Telecom Italia from 21.4% to 22.8%, paying between €0.82 and €0.83 per share between 16 February and...

Verizon Communications has agreed to buy XO Communications’ fibre optic network business for US$1.8bn – a price tag the target’s chairman and...

An international group of telcos – the US’ CenturyLink, Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, India’s Reliance Jio Infocomm and Korea’s SK Telecom – have formed an alliance to provide...