05 June 2013
Pictures of the awards winners at the 2013 Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards are now online More »
07 June 2013
India's Ambani brothers have signed an agreement for their rival telecoms firms to share mobile masts in a contract valued at more than $2 billion, reports Reuters. More »
Verizon has officially turned on its LTE network in the Alaskan regions of Anchorage, Fairbanks, North Pole, Juneau and much of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, reports Alaska Journal of Commerce. More »
Digicel will invest almost $9bn in its Myanmar operation if a consortium involving the group is successful in a bid to secure a mobile licence in the country, reports the Irish Independent. More »
Two of Switzerland's biggest ISPs have announced fibre broadband network expansion plans, reports ZD Net. More »
06 June 2013
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine’s richest man, is buying Ukrtelecom, the country’s fixed-line telecoms monopoly, and its only 3G mobile internet license for an estimated $1bn, reports Bloomberg. More »
Telefónica is considering a sale or merger of its Irish business after receiving expressions of interest from potential buyers. More »
The Indian government approved a non-binding proposal that would start a conciliation process to resolve a $2.2 billion tax dispute with Vodafone Group, reports Economic Times. More »
Christian Paradis, the industry minister of Canada, has blocked a $367.34 million bid for Mobilicity from Telus. More »
Brazilian telecoms operator Grupo Oi has appointed former Portugal Telecom chief Zeinal Bava as its new chief executive, sending its shares up nearly 16%. More »
Vodafone is reconsidering a takeover of German cable company Kabel Deutschland reports the Wall Street Journal Deutschland. More »
04 June 2013
SingTel has submitted a bid for a telecoms licence in Myanmar with two local partners - Myanmar Telephone Co. and KBZ Group. More »
Vodafone UK is increasing investment in its network this year as it brings together its fixed and mobile infrastructure and prepares for the launch of ultra-fast 4G services by the late summer. More »
03 June 2013
Telecom Italia’s board of directors, chaired by Franco Bernabè, has resolved to seperate some of its network assets - valued at between $17-$19.4 billion - into a new company. More »
MegaFon will join Telefónica’s Partners Programme, which was established to enable operators to work together and to benefit from Telefónica’s scale and knowledge. More »
There are no unresolved national security issues relating to proposed merger of Sprint and Softbank More »
Middle Eastern operators target Vivendi stake in Moroccan operator More »
One of the biggest minority shareholders in Clearwire has urged the wireless company to recommend against Sprint's buyout offer after Dish made a counter bid. More »
02 June 2013
Vivendi has put one of its own executives in charge of SFR, France’s second-largest mobile operator by revenues, ahead of a possible initial public offering for the mobile network, reports The Financial Times. More »
Christian Paradis, the industry minister of Canada, has blocked a $367.34 million bid for Mobilicity from Telus.
08 April 2013
GBI chief Ahmed Mekky has set up the first regionally owned subsea network serving the Gulf, now with an overland back-up into Europe, and is considering expansion into data centres and services, he tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
05 April 2013
WiMax capacity is running out for Azerbaijan operator AzQtel, so the company is considering bids from vendors to replace the kit with TDD LTE, CEO Jayhun Mollazade tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
02 April 2013
Millicom, the Swedish company that trades under the name Tigo in Latin America and Africa, plans to expand from mobile voice to cable, mobile banking and other services, CEO Hans-Holger Albrecht tells Alan Burkitt-Gray
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