Masayoshi Son backs Sprint financing vehicles to aid turnaround
Far from planning to exit US wireless carrier Sprint (NYSE:S), its majority shareholder Japan’s Softbank (TYO:9984) intends to set up two financing ...
Tag: Deutsche Telekom
Verizon and T-Mobile US agree US$173m spectrum swaps
US telcos Verizon Wireless (NYSE:VZ) and T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) have agreed to exchange AWS and PCS spectrum licences worth a total US$173m. ...
Serbia to assess multiple Telekom Srbija bids
Serbia’s telecoms minister Rasim Ljajic has said the government has received a number of non-binding offers for its 58.1% stake ...
Telekom Austria to buy Bulgaria’s Blizoo
Telekom Austria’s (VIE: TKA) Bulgarian unit Mobiltel has agreed to buy the country’s second largest fixed-line operator Blizoo from Swedish private equity ...
Dish “respectfully disagrees” with FCC draft order denying discounts
FCC chair Tom Wheeler has circulated a draft order to deny the US$3.3bn in designated entity discounts sought by affiliates ...
Deutsche Telekom to buy Telefonica base stations
Deutsche Telekom (XETRA:DTE) has agreed to buy 7,700 redundant mobile sites from Telefonica Deutschland (XETRA:O2D) for an undisclosed sum, the companies ...
Dish, T-Mobile US talks on ice – report
Merger talks between Dish Network (NASDAQ: DISH) and T-Mobile US (NYSE: TMUS) have reportedly stalled over disagreements to do with valuation and ...
German spectrum auction exceeds expectations
The Bundesnetzagetur’s bumper auction of low frequency licences has seen Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica Deutschland pay a combined €5.08bn (US$5.76bn) for the ...
Comcast not eyeing T-Mobile US – report
US cableco Comcast is reportedly not interested in acquiring Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile US after all. Contrary to yesterday’s report in ...
European incumbents demand fast-tracked regulatory reforms
The CEOs of Europe’s leading telecoms operators have called on the European Union to speed up regulatory changes, enabling them ...
