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13 November 2009
Ted Griggs, the CEO of Ribbit, now owned by BT, has been made CTO of BT Voice. So what is it about Ribbit that persuaded BT to spend $105 million on buying it — and what does his appointment mean for the future of BT’s services?
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13 November 2009
Telekom Austria is considering merging operations of mobile and fixed services in its home country
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12 November 2009
Chris Gabriel, CEO of Zain's African operations, says the Middle East-based group is not planning to split up and sell its 13 African networks
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12 November 2009
A split in Motorola is back on the agenda, with the company discussing selling its equipment side for up to $5 billion, as part of a potential three-way split in the company
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06 November 2009
Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis have won a victory in their legal battle against Skype owner eBay and will take a 14% stake worth $385 million in the IP telephony company in full settlement
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05 November 2009
Spanish group Telefónica has raised its bid for Brazilian operator GVT to almost $4 billion, in a bidding war with France’s Vivendi
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06 November 2009
Telmex has raised $500 million through a bond sale, for general corporate purposes. The joint bookrunning managers on the sale were Bank of America and HSBC.
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28 October 2009
Mobile satellite phone company Iridium has appointed the bank Goldman Sachs to advise it on funding its new fleet of satellites, to replace the ageing set of craft it inherited from the original Iridium venture