Bharti Airtel chair plans to make African operations profitable by rationalising footprint
India’s largest mobile operator Bharti Airtel is mulling divesting from some of its African operations or merging with other operators as it ...
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Banking veteran Fatine Layt to open and head LionTree’s Paris office
US telecoms boutique financial adviser LionTree has chosen Fatine Layt to open and lead its new European office in Paris. The advisory firm ...
T-Mobile Netherlands hires Telia’s former CCO Søren Abildgaard to boost offer strategy
Deutsche Telekom has picked Swedish telco Telia’s former CCO Søren Abildgaard to become T-Mobile Netherlands’s next CEO from 1 February. Abildgaard replaces consumer director Martin Knauer, who was ...
Telecom Italia in €1bn bond refi with lowest coupon ever
Telecom Italia has issued a €1bn (US$1.07bn) six and half year bond with the lowest coupon amongst the non-convertible Eurobonds ever ...
Telefónica plans to raise US$1.85bn in new debt despite aim to slash leverage
Spain’s Telefónica plans to issue €1.75bn (US$1.85bn) of fresh debt despite concerns about the telco’s leverage levels. The telco had €60.1bn (US$63.5bn) total outstanding debt ...
Special Feature: Telcos pin hopes on convergence amidst communication revolution
The global trend for telecoms operators to pursue convergence strategies is unlikely to slow down in 2017 as the industry ...
Altice sells Belgium and Luxembourg business to Telenet in rare disposal
French billionaire Patrick Drahi’s Altice has sold its telecoms business in Belgium and Luxembourg to local cableco Telenet in a €400m (US$418m) deal to ...
Orange in €6bn refi as Canal+ speculation continues
French incumbent telco Orange has signed a multi-currency €6bn (US$6.3bn) syndicated revolving credit facility with 24 international banks to refinance an existing ...
TIM to spin off streaming service as Italian telecoms-broadcasting space looks set for rapid transformation
Telecom Italia (TIM) plans to spin off its video streaming service TIMVision into a separate company, which will develop proprietary ...
Why telecoms deals fail: regulation tops the 2016 risk list
Regulators internationally have dealt multiple blows to telecoms deals this year in continued demonstrations of national protectionism and an increased ...
