Strategy and Markets

Verizon Communications is reportedly in advanced talks with media company Hearst Corporation to set up an online video joint venture. The JV would develop...

AT&T is reportedly preparing for a major media purchase, with Time Warner touted as the likely target. Such a deal would enable the...

US MVNO FreedomPop has raised US$50m in financing to fuel its foreign expansion plans. These include the launch of a new international...

French media conglomerate Vivendi is not planning to sell its 21% shareholding in Telecom Italia to compatriot Orange or to Iliad founder Xavier Niel, Vivendi CEO...

Telefónica has reportedly approached AT&T regarding its Latin American pay-TV assets, which could also be attractive to Liberty Global following its acquisition of CWC....

In its latest appointment ahead of completing the £12.5bn acquisition of mobile operator EE, UK incumbent BT has named a successor to Clive...

US wireless carrier Sprint is reportedly planning a major overhaul of its network that could lead to US$1bn in savings – news...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved the sale of mobile operator EE by joint owners Orange and Deutsche Telekom to BT with no conditions. The...

Edotco, the infrastructure services unit of Malaysia’s Axiata Group Berhad, intends to use some of its planned US$200m investment in Myanmar...

Sweden’s TeliaSonera has written down the value of its Uzbek unit, Ucell, by about half – SKr5.3bn (US$620m) – as it prepares to exit Eurasia. The...