European PE firms ramping up fibre investments amid accelerated network sharing
A slew of network sharing deals among European telecom operators is driving regional private equity companies to increase their fibre ...
Tag: Swisscom
Telcos expand security assets to guard against increasingly sophisticated 5G cyberattacks
Concerns of increasingly sophisticated hacking tools, such as AI and machine learning, being used to attack 5G networks has triggered ...
Accelerating quad-play drive sparks Sunrise Communications/UPC Switzerland convergence tie-up
The march towards convergent services continues to push TMT to the deal table, with cable giant Liberty Global playing an important ...
Deal structure key to Sunrise’s stock value post Liberty Global acquisition
Sunrise Communications has confirmed it is in talks to acquire Liberty Global’s Swiss business UPC, but analysts recommend investors to pay ...
European telcos may divest assets to counter financial stress post 5G spectrum auctions
Higher-than-expected spectrum costs in an increasingly competitive European telecoms market could force more telcos in the region to sell assets ...
European towerco M&A continues to snowball with Cellnex’s US$512m Sunrise deal
A consortium led by towerco Cellnex Telecom has agreed to acquire 100% of Swiss mobile network operator Sunrise-controlled Swiss Towers for SFr500m (US$512m). In Cellnex CFO José Manuel Mancho’s recent disclosure ...
Italian ISP Linkem lands €100m investment to expand ultrabroadband network
Italian fibre-to-wireless broadband provider Linkem has secured a €100m (US$106m) equity investment from funds managed by BlackRock, the world’s largest ...
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 ...
Sunrise to reprice US$1.5bn in debt after ratings upgrade
Swiss telco Sunrise has received consent to reprice and extend its SFr1.36bn (US$1.33bn) term loan B and SFr200m (US$195m) revolving credit ...
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 ...
