Vodafone places £2.88bn bonds
Vodafone has placed £2.88bn (US$4.11bn) of mandatory convertible bonds which, when converted into shares, correspond to about 5% of the company’s ...
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Metroweb lines up banks to finance cable deployment
Metroweb, the Milan-based dark fibre provider, has lined up a reported 15 banks to help finance a €750m-€800m plan to ...
Dish to “potentially” bid in auction, T-Mobile raises funds to participate
US satellite broadcaster Dish Network has said it will “potentially” take part in the FCC’s upcoming broadcast spectrum auction, as it considers ...
Singapore says “strong interest” in fourth licence
Singapore has outlined the framework for its upcoming multi-band spectrum auction, setting a starting bid price of S$35m (US$24.92m) for ...
Axiata shareholders green light NCell purchase
Shareholders in Malaysian telco Axiata have voted in favour of its planned acquisition of a majority stake in Nepal’s largest operator, Ncell, from TeliaSonera and ...
Orange says Bouygues deal needs more time
France’s Orange expects it will take “at least several” more weeks to agree a deal to buy smaller rival Bouygues Telecom as negotiations are ...
RCom and Aircel may be unable to reduce debt in time for merger – report
Indian telco Reliance Communications and smaller rival Aircel are reportedly unlikely to reduce their debt to the required levels before the exclusivity period for ...
Softbank plans US$4.4bn share buyback
Japan’s Softbank plans to buy back up to Y500bn (US$4.4bn) of its own shares in what will be its largest ever ...
Sergey Emdin to lead Tele2 Russia
Tele2 Russia has named Sergey Emdin as its new CEO. He will be tasked with establishing the company as a fully integrated operator ...
