Strategy and Markets

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...

Ofcom has named former BT CEO Ben Verwaayen as a non-executive. The appointment comes amid an ongoing review of the incumbent's infrastructure arm, Openreach, which...

Canadian telco Shaw Communications  has agreed to sell its broadcasting unit Shaw Media to Corus Entertainment for C$2.65bn (US$1.86bn) to help finance its purchase of Wind...

China Unicom and China Telecom have signed a “strategic cooperation agreement” which will see them share resources, improve efficiency, and accelerate the government’s...

Independent US cable operator Seaborn Networks has completed its US$500m project financing for Seabras-1 – a new subsea fibre optic cable system...

BT has named a new head of Openreach, the functionally separated infrastructure division rivals say needs new ownership.   Clive...

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...